A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: art at the Olympics, court to decide authenticity of Peter Doig painting, and art magazine covers nipples of nude pregnant woman painted by artist Lisa Yuskavage.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Following the success of a campaign against cuts to the city’s arts budget, the biennial Cardiff festival returns with a 31-day programme of exhibitions and events.
In its Arts Strategy 2016-17, published to coincide with Edinburgh’s festival season, Creative Scotland has made fair pay for artists a core aim as part of its commitment to supporting and promoting artists’ work.
With a long and close relationship between the UK and Poland stretching back over generations, and an estimated 800,000 people born in Poland currently resident in the UK, what is the Polish view on Brexit and its implications for the visual arts? Emma Sumner talks to Polish artists, curators and visual arts professionals to find out.
In the latest instalment of her monthly column on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at two artists whose publishing practice sees them exhibiting at major upcoming events in the USA.
Following the result of the EU referendum in June, a-n’s member survey was a chance to get a sense of how Brexit might affect visual artists. Dany Louise highlights some of the survey findings including examples of how the decision to leave the EU is already affecting members who regularly work, exhibit or apply for opportunities in Europe.
Renowned for his work exploring issues of security and secrecy in the ‘war on terror’, Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity sees the British photographer examine the CIA’s programme of extraordinary rendition. On the occasion of a new monograph and year-long exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, he talks to Tim Clark about the challenges of photographing invisible mechanisms of state control.
Arts Council England has announced the 40 organisations across the country that will benefit from its new Elevate fund, which aims to enhance diversity in the arts and culture sector.
This week’s selection includes a spooky apparition in Manchester, painting and sculpture in London, and photography in Belfast.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Fareham, Hertford, Sway, Southampton and Stroud.
Northumberland-based Arts & Heritage to receive Arts Council funding for ten museums to work with individual artists on new works inspired by their collections.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Creative Scotland awards over £1.2million of Open Project Funding, artist Zehra Doğan arrested in Turkey, and more than 40 artists and designers accuse Zara of plagiarism.
A new free newspaper produced by a group of artists, writers and graphic designers aims to highlight Liverpool’s independent and artist-led art scene.
Own Art: Impact on Artists Survey 2016 seeks responses from creative practitioners on how they sell their work and the impact different schemes, such as Own Art, have on their livelihoods.
Jerwood Visual Arts and Bath Spa University have announced the 55 artists selected to be part of Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016.
As part of the touring project idle women (on the water), idle women launch Stories in the Skies, a summer programme of theatre, visual art and writing in Lancashire.
Pippa Koszerek talks to artist Beth Collar about how a 2014 residency at Glasgow Women’s Library has influenced the sculptures that she is currently showing in the Tall Tales national touring exhibition.
The winner of the inaugural award named after the Acme Studios co-founder will receive a rent-free shared studio and bursary as well as mentoring and studio visits.
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Edinburgh, video in London and mixed media in Gateshead.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Photographer files $1 billion suit against Getty and Alamy, Orlan loses plagiarism suit against Lady Gaga, and Creative Scotland warns Brexit may limit RFO funding.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
International Curators Forum receive Arts Council fund of £300,000 for Black British Diaspora Pavilion, with ten artists set to exhibit work at Venice Biennale 2017.
The art-activist campaign group Platform says protests against BP will escalate following the oil giants announcement of new sponsorship deals with the British Museum, Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company.
Liverpool’s largest artist-led gallery and studios The Royal Standard is celebrating ten years in the city with a major exhibition featuring 23 artists. Artist, curator and former TRS director Kevin Hunt explains the important role the organisation has for artists in Liverpool and its context in the wider artist-led scene.
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