A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Royal Standard relocates, David Hockney to design stained-glass window for the Queen, and photographer Greg Constantine banned from attending his own exhibition.
Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.
Serbian artist wins fifth edition of award for emerging artists and receives three-month studio residency at Griffin Gallery next year.
Camden Arts Centre’s visionary director Jenni Lomax is to leave the organisation after 26 years as its head.
The New Art Gallery Walsall remains under threat of closure but gallery director Stephen Snoddy has vowed to fight hard to keep it open. Chris Sharratt argues it’s a battle that can’t be lost.
UK-based artists Phoebe Boswell, Rebecca Moss and Andy Holden are among the 21 artists shortlisted for fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
A roundup of some of the best open studios, artist-led festive sales and exhibitions in the run up to Christmas.
Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has intervened in the protests over the recent closure of Inverleith House gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
‘Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event?’ is a two-‘chapter’ exhibition and symposium at Cooper Gallery, Dundee that presents contemporary and historical feminist art from the 1970s onwards in an attempt to create a dialogue between “artists, thinkers, artworks and practices”. Dundee-based artist Valerie Norris reports from Scotland’s ‘she town’.
This week’s selection includes animals and figurative work in London, photography in Belfast, and in Brighton an exhibition recasting the role of the machine.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Cockpit Arts Camden building faces redevelopment, all-female show offers defiant riposte to Trump winning US election, and new artistic director of Tate St Ives announced.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
The London-based artist, who is shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, wins the £30,000 biennial award.
London-based arts organisation V22 hope to open artists’ studios in the old library building during the summer of 2017.
Swiss-Italian artist wins £15,000 award for portrait of an 18-year-old Johannesburg schoolboy.
New festival artistic director John McGrath announces a snapshot of the 2017 programme, which includes new commissions by prominent visual artists.
‘The Last Editions’ is the final chance to celebrate the work of The Multiple Store and to buy one of the high-quality editions it has been commissioning since 1998 by artists including Turner Prize nominees and winners. Co-founder Nicholas Sharp talks about his reasons for starting the project, and why it’s now time to wrap things up.
A new touring programme exploring the history of artists’ moving image in the north of England launches with screening of three moving-image projects produced in Bradford during the 1970s.
Artist Catherine Bertola is concerned that HMRC’s new ‘Making Tax Digital’ proposals, which the government claims will make tax administration more efficient and easier for taxpayers, will result in additional administrative pressure for many artists and self-employed freelancers with low and erratic incomes.
The UK’s oldest arts centre announces 300th anniversary programme for 2017, with artists including John Akomfrah, Sonia Boyce and Larissa Sansour.
This week’s selection includes a group show of 24 female artists’ work in Penzance, Turner watercolours in Margate, and a sculptural exploration of everyday materials in Edinburgh.
The Baltic Artists’ Award will provide a platform for the work of four emerging artists and celebrate the role of the artist-mentor.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: one year on, artist Fred Dewilde recounts Bataclan attack from a first-person perspective; Mexican architects reveal designs for tongue-in-cheek border wall; and details of rebuild of Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh unveiled.
Five visual artists and three composers each receive £50,000 ‘no strings attached’ awards to ‘develop their creative ideas’.
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