As the economy continues to falter and budgets are cut, public funding for the arts is increasingly justified in terms of economic and social benefits. But, argues Shaun Glanville, this is futile and wrong-headed – a new approach is needed.
The deadline is approaching for responses to the Department of Education’s public consultation on the draft National Curriculum, which includes changes to programmes of art and design study.
Tate Modern has been awarded a £5m grant from The Woolfson Foundation to support the development of its new building, it was announced today.
Bookmaking and self-publishing are becoming increasingly prominent forms of artistic practice. Catherine Roche considers the rise in popularity of artists’ books and what it means to ‘publish’ in a post-digital age.
With high volumes of applications already in, a-n announces two new supporters of bursaries to artists in their area.
Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Gallery announce three curatorial fellowships as part of ACE-funded collaboration.
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
Arts producing agency Forma is celebrating a decade of working with leading artists by reappraising previous projects and announcing a raft of new ones. We speak to founder David Metcalfe and artists Matt Stokes and Graham Dolphin about the past, the future and the role of the producer.
A new research study identifies how visual arts courses are addressing graduate employability and preparing students for life after art school.
City regeneration project gets a boost from Arts Council England as Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company merger takes step forward.
Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman are appointed joint curators of the UK’s ‘largest contemporary art festival’.
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
The ten museums and galleries shortlisted for this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year have been announced.
a-n’s flagship networking and professional development event for artists, launched in 2009, reaches milestone.
“Strongest programme yet” for EAF’s tenth anniversary features Gabriel Orozco, Lawrence Weiner, Christine Borland and Jeremy Deller.
Jerwood Visual Arts and Forestry Commission England launch £30,000 commission to be realised anywhere within England’s Public Forest Estate.
An Arts Council England Grants for the arts award is enabling the volunteer-run Macclesfield Barnaby Festival to develop a series of site-specific art commissions over two years.
Entries for the Lumen Prize, the world’s first prize and tour for fine art created in digital form, open today.
As the Northern Art Prize opens for the first time in its new spring slot, we talk to curator Sarah Brown and the four artists shortlisted for the £16,500 award.
Final call for nominations of Scottish or Scotland-based artists for ‘experimental and innovative’ film and moving image award.
Twenty-five artists have been awarded a total of £21,700 in a-n bursaries to support professional development.
Guardian Culture Professionals recently hosted a live chat on the subject of selling art. Art world figures were joined by artists, collectors and creative entrepreneurs to discuss the role of gallerist as negotiator, the Internet versus face-to-face sales and ways to make it easier to start a collection.
The Contemporary Art Society’s National Network conference in Nottingham took as its theme ‘commissioning for public collections’ and featured presentations from directors and curators from some of the UK’s leading visual arts organisations. We report from the day.
After over 20 years as an automonous organisation, film and video commissioning agency Picture This is to merge with Bristol’s Spike Island.
A new body of research published by the Baring Foundation examines the importance of working with elderly people, particularly in relation to artists’ practices.
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