Suspended from the station’s Grade 1 listed Barlow Shed roof, David Batchelor’s newly commissioned public art work is unveiled at London’s St Pancras International as part of the latest Terrance Wires installation.
The artist Alan Davie, who was known for creating works that drew heavily on myth and ‘magic symbolism’, has died at the age of 93.
New Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory has stamped her personality on the festival’s programme, but the sixth edition of this biennial with a difference still retains its unique character and sense of place.
While the Top ten blogs for March sees new entries by J Kay Aplin and AnnaMaria Pinaka & Jennifer Picken, it’s Marion Michell’s blog Sleep Drunk I Dance that once again hits the high spot, with another impressive score.
This week we get all immersive with new installations by Wu Chi-Tsung in Sheffield and Shezad Dawood in London, while in Leeds, Ian Kiaer’s works explore questions of value and form, and in Colchester, Aleksandra Domanović looks into how the post-war environment of the former Yugoslavia has been shaped by the media and technology.
26 disabled artists to be supported bringing ambitious new works to audiences across the UK.
Major development project will restore former Rubber Company HQ to create specialist arts centre for the city.
This week (4-10 April) we take a trip to the 12th Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, worry about modern living in Pinheiros, Brazil, and ponder the impact of digitalisation in Düsseldorf.
Roe Ethridge’s latest photobook, Sacrifice Your Body, is a searing exploration of the real making itself present in an artificial world, and provides plenty for Tim Clark to think about.
Sir Sandy Crombie, the first chair of Scotland’s arts funding body Creative Scotland, is to leave his position after four years in the role.
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
This year’s FutureEverything in Manchester included an art programme looking at the role of technology in the cities of the future, and exploring how mass data gathering and surveillance is affecting our lives. Bob Dickinson reports from the festival’s ‘pop-up urban experiment’.
The Canal & River Trust has announced an ambitious programme of contemporary art as part of its Arts on the Waterways programme.
The recently published Arts Council England report, The Value of Arts and Culture to People and Society, has been attracting criticism from academics for the quality of its research and its subsequent findings. Mike White, Research Fellow in Arts in Health, is unimpressed by its ‘holistic case’ for arts and culture.
The third edition of the International Print Biennale has announced a shortlist of 37 artists for its two Print Awards exhibitions taking place in Newcastle upon Tyne this summer.
After a £10m redevelopment project, the new Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery opens today with artists’ commissions responding to its permanent collection and a launch exhibition of work from Frank Cohen’s collection.
Open School East co-director Anna Colin and Barbican Art Gallery curator Lydia Yee have been appointed to curate British Art Show 8, which will open in Leeds in 2015.
A new study led by artist Steve Pool is examining the role of artists and practice within the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities projects.
This week’s selection includes water from the world’s oceans at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, the work of autistic artists at Free Space Gallery in London, and a history of quilting at Danson House, Bexleyheath.
Arts Council of Wales’s new five-year strategy rejects single artform strategies, defines the obligations of national companies and pledges to recognise the role of activity that straddles the subsidised and commercial sectors. Liz Hill reports.
For this week’s (28 March – 3 April) snapshot of international art events, we’re in Milan, Paris, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro.
A £10m programme to commemorate three key dates from the first world war will see new works by Anya Gallaccio, Richard Wentworth and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
The recent Lumen Prize Symposium in London was an opportunity for artists and academics working with digital technologies to discuss the past, present and future of artistic practice in the digital realm. Dawn Haleta reports.
Newtown-based Oriel Davies Gallery has announced the exhibiting artists for its 2014 Open, which offers a first prize of £1,000 plus a solo show at the gallery.
The lead up to the 19th Sydney Biennale has been marked by artists’ protests over the business activities of its founding sponsor, eventually leading to the Biennale severing links with its funder of 40 years. Now, with the Biennale open to the public and all but two of the original artists taking part, Moira Jeffrey considers the art, the context and the quiet steeliness of its curator.
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