A major new programme for 2013 and 2014 has been launched by Scottish Print Network to support new work by leading artists from Scotland and Commonwealth countries.
The Manchester Contemporary, which describes itself as ‘the largest fair of critically engaging visual art outside of London’, announces galleries and project space initiative.
A survey in Scotland has found that people who engage in culture are more likely to report good health.
The Institute of Physics unveils Covariance – a spectacular installation by artist Lyndall Phelps, developed through collaborative discussions with particle physicist Dr Ben Still. We talk to the pair about how art and science tackle the big questions of the universe.
For her solo show at the Grundy Art Gallery, New York-based artist Zoe Beloff has created a Freudian dreamland that draws on the famous psychoanalyst’s visits to Coney Island and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The result, reports Bob Dickinson, is a thrill ride into a fictional past.
The Design and Artists Copyright Society warns that artists could face a loss of income following changes to licensing mandates, and is urging artists to compete an online survey as part of its work to secure payments.
A series of recently unveiled artworks commissioned for Cardiff Airport hope to improve its battered image and help promote tourism, business and the Welsh economy.
This week’s selection includes figurative painting in Edinburgh, site-specific sonicness in Sheffield and a bit of English Magic in London.
Continuing our series focusing on visually-rich art books, Tim Clark picks up Marion Gronier’s Glorious, a collection of colour portraits of travelling circus performers, and finds an intense and intriguing study of human presence.
Renowned international art figure Kasper König has been appointed Chief Curator of 2014’s Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg.
A portrait of Glasgow gallerists Toby Webster and Andrew Hamilton, an ‘urban burka’ fashioned from a pair of training shoes, and a woodcut reflecting on the death of a grandparent are among works shortlisted for £30,000 prize.
After a break last year for the Olympics, the sixth edition of the Hackney WickED Art Festival takes place this weekend in London’s East End. We talk to the people who make it happen.
One of London’s best known art meccas faces an uncertain future following the decision by Westminster Council to redevelop the area into luxury apartments.
This weekend’s Cove Park Open Day is a chance to meet artists in residence and to bid farewell to the centre’s current building before re-development work starts in 2014. We talk to Director Julian Forrester about what’s in store this weekend, and beyond.
West Bromwich arts centre to cease current activities on 30 November.
Mark Ravenhill’s recent speech at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe sounded the death knell for state subsidy of the arts. Scottish Review editor Kenneth Roy takes the playwright’s views – and their misrepresentation in the right-wing press – to task.
Five of the leading professional subject associations for art, dance, drama and music are working together to ensure that arts teachers are heard in discussions around education and arts teaching.
Followers of @an_artnews composed over 100 tweets in a lively debate sparked by the Art Everywhere project.
This week’s must-see shows range from the intense, tropical canvases of Peter Doig in Edinburgh to sound art in South London.
For the third of our features looking at summer shows across the UK, we talk to 2009 Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer about her Mount Stuart commission, a series of poetic and precise interventions in this neo-gothic house on the Isle of Bute.
The visual arts, collaboration and experimentation will be on the agenda at this weekend’s Supernormal festival in rural Oxfordshire. We speak to Sam Francis about her curated programme focussing on gender roles in the realms of art and music.
The UK-wide Art Everywhere project, which sees art on billboards and posters across the country, has been launched at an event in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Judy Thomas pays tribute to the Newcastle upon Tyne-based artist Andrea MJ Toth, who sadly passed away on 14 July following a two and a half year battle with breast cancer.
Axisweb announce three sessions that explore next step strategies for new artists after graduation.
A four-strong shortlist for this award that supports early career moving image artists has been chosen from a longlist of 150 submissions.
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