20 free delegate passes, specifically for emerging independent artists, have been made available to February’s No Boundaries symposium on the role of culture in 21st century society. But applicants need to be quick – the deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 11 February.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a major Sarah Lucas retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow to Bettina Buck and Marie Lund’s site-specific interventions at Spacex, Exeter.
Does joining with higher education institutions bring a promise of financial stability for cash-strapped arts organisations, alongside an increase in audiences? a-n Director Susan Jones reports from an Arts Council England conference that sketched out a new landscape for the contemporary arts.
A new batch of research has just been published as part of a-n and AIR’s ongoing Paying Artists campaign.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.
Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands announced as the three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award for artists working in three dimensions.
LOCWS International announces its next programme of temporary public art commissions, with 13 new works from artists including Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith and Ross Sinclair.
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition, The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, developed from a residency at the University of Oxford and culminates in a symposium on World TB Day. She talks about the ‘curious journey’ that led to her scientific and artistic exploration of this highly infectious, but curable, killer.
Peckham Platform launches its new vision as an independent charity with the opening of Ruth Beale’s participatory installation, Bookbed. We talk to the artist and the organisation’s executive director Emily Druiff about libraries, socially-engaged practice and being a creative educational platform.
Artists talking blogger Stuart Mayes is celebrating seven years using the platform, which he says has provided him with an important thinking space and access to a supportive community of fellow artists.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Matt Stokes’ elegiac films in Blackpool, Pop Art pioneer Patrick Caulfield in Kendal, and Chinese animator Sun Xun in London.
This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.
Katie Paterson has won the visual art category at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards, with Tracey Emin receiving The Outstanding Achievement Award.
Following a public vote, the 10 winning institutions have been revealed who will each be hosting a different contemporary artist for the Museums at Night weekend in May.
For the latest instalment of our regular Pictured series focusing on art books, Tim Clark reflects on Veramente, the career-spanning monograph from pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, Guido Guidi.
Disabled artists organisation Shape and Artsadmin have been awarded £1.5million by Arts Council England to deliver Unlimited, a new three-year programme of commissions. With the launch of its Unlimited Allies scheme, it’s now looking for help and support so that the scheme can deliver a long-term legacy.
Creative Scotland has announced £9.4million of capital funding for 12 organisations in Scotland, including Collective Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, Cove Park and Hospitalfield Arts.
a-n’s popular professional development programme, designed to give artists and visual arts freelancers the confidence and know-how to move their practice and projects forward, continues into 2014 with a series of seminars and workshops in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Leicestershire.
Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire reveal how their artistic and research ethos will lead the way for their fundraising priorities in their joint, Catalyst fund-supported project, How to work together.
The arts funding body for Scotland is seeking feedback on a draft version of its new plan for 2014-24.
Artist Luke Turner has raised concerns over the actions of London and New York-based organisation art:i:curate, claiming that his work was printed and distributed without his consent.
This week’s must-see exhibitions range from Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s first solo show in a public gallery at Nottingham Contemporary to Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery.
It’s been a week that has seen a multi-million pound sponsorship deal at Tate Modern and controversy and column inches about a chair, a Russian socialite and a publicity picture of questionable taste. But is there a link between the two stories?
Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn has been announced as the winner of the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
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