A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: MoMA creates digital image archive of all its exhibitions, odds on next Tate director, and new UK arts minister’s first speech.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
The first-ever biennial Estuary festival presents 16 days of art, literature, music and film ‘curated in response to the spectacular Thames Estuary’. Chris Sharratt talks to Kent-based, water-loving artist Adam Chodzko about his latest iteration of Ghost, featuring a specially adapted kayak with room for one reclining passenger.
The four award winners of the longstanding art prize that celebrates and promotes insight into contemporary drawing have been announced.
For the latest instalment in her monthly series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at the work of British artist Angela Thames as her year-long residency at Chawton House Library in Hampshire draws to a close.
The annual arts education conference, which this year takes place in Liverpool, will explore how issues of access and activism impact on galleries and the visual arts.
Serf, the latest addition to Leeds’ expanding workspace scene, offers much more than studio space for artists – it provides a support structure for early career artists at a crucial time in their development. Lara Eggleton reports.
London-based painter Cathy Lomax wins the first edition of this new, artist-led prize, selected from a shortlist of 15 artists.
The American artist’s new permanent large-scale video installation, Mary, joins his 2014 piece, Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), inside St Paul’s Cathedral.
This week’s selection includes video in London, drawing in Poole and a different take on domesticity in Leeds.
London-based artist Zoe Childerley has been walking the English-Scottish border as part of a residency with Visual Arts in Rural Communities in Northumberland. Pippa Koszerek talks to her in the lead up to an end of residency exhibition
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Local residents claim visitors to new Tate are spying on them, thousands of cultural producers detained in Turkey, and artist-in-residence stranded at sea on bankrupt container ship.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Following its official trade union recognition in June, Artists’ Union England yesterday marked this milestone with an official launch and party in London.
The director of Tate is to leave the role after 28 years to take up part-time position as chairman of Arts Council England.
Mother House is a month-long collective studio for female artists and their children, with 36 artists working alongside each other in this temporary London base.
As part of the Super Slow Way programme in Lancashire, Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is bringing the local community together through Sufi chanting, shape-note singing and a banquet for 500 people. Bob Dickinson finds out more.
A programme of dance, theatre, exhibitions, talks and events by disabled artists opens at London’s Southbank and this year will also go to Tramway in Glasgow.
Bristol Biennial, the artist-led festival now in its third edition, combines art and ideas in a city-focused combination of new commissions and timely discussions. Maddy Hearn reports on the opening weekend of this nine-day event.
‘Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison’ is the latest project from arts producers Artangel and sees artists including Marlene Dumas, Steve McQueen, Wolfgang Tillmans and Nan Goldin exhibiting works in the former jail which, from 1895 to 1897, included Oscar Wilde amongst its inmates. Fisun Güner reports on an ambitious and moving exhibition.
This week’s selection includes a group drawing show in London, neon lights in Blackpool and digital art in Brighton.
A selection of members’ events taken from a-n’s busy Events section. This week there’s painting in Penarth, abstraction and illustration in London, architectural explorations in Swansea, and a weather station project on the Isle of Portland.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Richard Prince faces another lawsuit over copyright infringement, V&A set for Pink Floyd exhibition, and Google returns literary blog data to Dennis Cooper.
The Precarious Workers Brigade has published an open letter criticising Somerset House’s call for volunteers and stating that the Icelandic musician’s exhibition should be an opportunity to offer paid work.
From community university partnerships to practice-based PhDs and tenured teaching posts, a new set of resources developed for a-n by artist Steve Pool identifies some key ways artists are working within higher education, and considers the value of such relationships to both artists and institutions.
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