Ikon Gallery will be looking back at key periods from its 50 year history as it celebrates its half century this year, starting with two exhibitions by Jamal Penjweny and John Salt.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
12 Years A Slave, the new feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, has been nominated for 10 BAFTAs, including best film and director.
Despite a major Kurt Schwitters’ show at Tate Britain last year, the future of the German artist’s Merz Barn in Cumbria remains uncertain. Ian Hunter of the Littoral Trust, which bought the dilapidated barn building in 2006, explains how things stand with the project and why the continued involvement of artists is key to its future.
A design duo, an architecture practice, two ceramicists and a glass artist make up the boundary-pushing shortlist of this year’s Jerwood Makers Open.
Bristol-based contemporary art organisation Spike Island has appointed Turner Contemporary’s Lhosa Daly as its new Deputy Director, while Alice Motard joins as Curator.
A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.
At a-n, we know that small awards to artists specifically for self-determined professional development make a big difference. That’s why we’re extending the artists’ bursary programme in 2014.
For the first Now Showing of 2014, our exhibition selections range from JMW Turner at the Scottish National Gallery to David Tremlett at the Ikon in Birmingham.
Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
In the final questionnaire in our series featuring the thoughts and experiences of artists and other arts professionals, a-n’s Director reflects on how 2013 was for her and the organisation.
The General Secretary of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) takes stock of a challenging and exciting 125th anniversary year for the organisation.
The Director of Jerwood Charitable Foundation looks back on a busy 2013 of brilliant new collaborations, and looks forward to 2014 being a year in which more money goes directly to artists.
The President of the Royal Academy of Arts reflects on a year that saw a major celebration of Australian art at the Academy, a £12million award from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the deaths of four distinguished Academicians including Sir Antony Caro.
The Glasgow-based producer and entrepreneur is becoming an increasingly influential voice in the conversation around the arts and digital technologies. He looks back on a busy year that, amongst other things, has seen him join the Board of the British Council.
As he looks forward to the gallery’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2014, the director of Ikon remembers a year of challenges and achievements, including curating the Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
This year saw Emily Speed, based at The Royal Standard, Liverpool, nominated for the Northern Art Prize and join the Board of a-n. Busy times, then – so busy, in fact, that she really does need a holiday. Or maybe two…
The Director of Edinburgh Art Festival looks back on the festival’s tenth year, and looks forward to a culturally vibrant 2014 in Scotland.
This year has seen Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams represent his country at the Venice Biennale while, amongst other things, next year he will play a starring role in the programme for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. If only his big toe wasn’t hurting so much…
For this bumper edition of Now Showing, we present 10 must-see exhibitions to see over the Christmas holidays.
After seven years as head of the Arts Council Collection, in October Caroline Douglas became the new Director of the Contemporary Art Society. She looks back on a hectic, ‘high-octane’ year.
It’s been a difficult year personally and professionally for Bob and Roberta Smith. But the success of the Art Party Conference in November has reinforced his view that it’s always worth advocating for the arts and demanding change.
Arts Council England prepares to cut NPOs again next year, but strategic funding will take the hit from 2015/16.
Leading ‘contemporary miniaturist’ Imran Qureshi has completed the latest Art on the Underground commission, celebrating 150 years of London’s underground tube network.
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