The 44th edition of the pioneering photography festival – Les Rencontres d’Arles – held annually in the south of France is now underway, and despite its strange curatorial proposition still continues to enthral audiences. Tim Clark reports back from the opening week.
Glasgow Print Studio has commissioned forty new print editions to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Pippa Koszerek speaks to its Director John Mackechnie about marking this special occasion.
Two recent events in Manchester square up to a debate that’s not going away – the relationship between artists and money. Bob Dickinson reports.
For its summer shows celebrating the building’s 10th anniversary, Liverpool’s FACT has invited artists to pick apart the very fabric of the venue. For the first in a short series of features focusing on summer exhibitions across the UK, we talk to Helen Evans of HeHe and architectural artist Katarzyna Krakowiak – and hear from FACT’s Director why allowing artists to drill a fracking well in your gallery is a good thing.
Tino Sehgal, the 2013 Turner Prize nominee, lights up this year’s Manchester international Festival with a riveting and joyous sound piece, writes Bob Dickinson.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
A residency in a disused chocolate factory in Derby by artists Ivan Smith and Nick Hersey is addressing the need for ‘dirty studio spaces’ in the city. S Mark Gubb reports.
Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.
As White Cube’s Open Cube show opens to the public, we ask whether an exhibition where all but one of the artists lives and works in London is really ‘an international group show’?
For the third instalment of our series looking at visually rich art books, we consider the delicate and meditative works of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, on the occasion of her latest book – Ametsuchi – published by Aperture.
Stepping out as a new artist? a-n’s new Signpost publication tells you what you need to know, and where to find it.
The just announced commissioned projects for this year’s Frieze London art fair have a child-friendly, playful feel.
Following the Chancellor’s recent Spending Review and Culture Secretary Maria Miller’s announcement of the stringent guidelines for the Arts Council England settlement, Hilary Gresty looks at the likely impact of yet more cuts to arts funding.
Five talented emerging makers unveil the results of their £7,500 Jerwood Makers Open commissions this week in London. We talk to the Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and two of this year’s selected makers about the project.
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s knowledge sharing event at Google’s London office was a high-impact juxtaposition between one of the world’s most successful companies and the subsidised visual arts sector. Dany Louise reports.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
The Government makes clear there’s to be no let-up in the push for earned income as Culture Secretary Maria Miller focuses on economic goals for Arts Council England in the year ahead.
Arts Council England has set aside £40m for exceptional projects and contingency funds for National Portfolio Organisations over the next two years.
Joshua Sofaer discusses “inspiration as a form of leading” with David Wilson, the Director of The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Final part of Artist as leader series.
Bob Dickinson meets Maria Balshaw of Manchester and Whitworth galleries and Sarah Perks of Cornerhouse to discuss the impact of Manchester International Festival’s visual arts programme on the city’s artist community, and the reemergence of performance at the festival.
Buy Art Fair and The Manchester Contemporary will return to the Spinningfields area of the city in September and include a tours programme hosted by Manchester Art Galleries and the Contemporary Art Society.
Maurice Carlin reports from the opening weekend of the Curators’ Network event in Madrid which looked at interconnectivity between “decentralised” local networks around the globe, and how curators, artists and organisations across Europe are dealing with economic and political transition.
Five projects have been selected for research and development phase of Jerwood Open Forest.
In the run-up to the Manchester International Festival, Bob Dickinson talks to Goa-based artist Nikhil Chopra about his durational festival performance Coal on Cotton that launches at Whitworth Art Gallery later this week.
The Gallery of Lost Art, the one year project that has showcased lost, stolen and destroyed artworks to over 100,000 visitors, will close this Thursday.
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