As economic sanctions bite and international condemnation continues over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Manifesta 10 announces its programme and its curator declares that the art must go on in St Petersburg.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen’s solo presentation, commissioned and curated by Arbroath’s Hospitalfield Arts, will represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s must-see shows include Michael Craig-Martin’s ‘line drawings in space’ in Bakewell, New Zealand-born and Berlin-based artist Simon Denny’s first UK solo show in Colchester and research into rural communities and development by Stephanie Misa in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
“A formidably inventive sculptor whose work remains urgent,” say Selection Committee as Sarah Lucas is chosen to represent Britain at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
To mark World Meteorological Day, Loughborough University is launching its Nowcasting programme of contemporary art, bringing artists together with scientists and including a spot of ‘smog tasting’.
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
The deadline for this year’s a-n Degree Shows Guide is fast approaching – make sure that your show is getting the promotion it deserves.
The artist and ‘national treasure’ Grayson Perry is to receive the Critics’ Circle Annual Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts in Britain.
Each month, we take a close look at the stats for the popular a-n blogging platform Artists talking to determine how many people are reading what and for how long. Then, by combining the number of page views with the average time spent on that page, we create a Top Ten. And in the top spot this month is…
Liz Hill, editor of Arts Professional, concludes that Arts Council England’s This England report is based on a carefully constructed analysis designed to disguise a London-centric funding strategy.
The shortlist has been announced for the annual prize promoting the work of recent graduates from UK art schools.
Edinburgh-based artist Catharine Davison has been awarded the £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize for representational painting.
This week’s must-see shows include casts of dismantled photocopiers in Edinburgh, Cezanne’s watercolours in Oxford, and an exploration of line and light in London.
London-based gallerist Ceri Hand has announced that the gallery in Southwark is to close at the end of April.
For the latest in our PICTURED series, Tim Clark turns his attention to PARTY, Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel’s reworking of Chairman Mao TseTung’s bible of communism.
Funds will be used to purchase new works for UK museums.
This week’s snapshot of international art action sees us talking about revolution in Finland, exploring the virtual and the real in the Netherlands, contemporary Arab art in the USA, and going deep into the Congo in Australia.
Isa Genzken, Wim Delvoye, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Shilpa Gupta and Tris Vonna-Michell are among the artists announced to take part in the 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
A three-and-a-half-metre wide excavation will create a wound in the Norwegian landscape, symbolising the sudden and tragic loss of the 2011 Utøya massacre.
The Welcome To Iraq exhibition, one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, has been relocated to South London Gallery.
The recent Europa Re-Imagined symposium in Cardiff was the latest event organised by the European Prospects project, exploring issues of experience and identity through photography and contemporary art in Europe. Rory Duckhouse reports.
Yoko Ono, Andy Goldsworthy and Pablo Bronstein are among the internationally renowned artists commissioned for the third edition of Folkestone Triennial.
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
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