The recently published white paper on culture, the first since Jennie Lee’s 1965 Policy for the Arts, was hailed by culture minister Ed Vaizey as presenting a “bold new vision”. Mark Robinson begs to differ.
For the latest in her regular series, Sarah Bodman looks at the work of New York-based Heidi Neilson ahead of a new show at Phoenix Brighton focusing on technologically-inspired artists’ books.
The London-based artist Lawrence Lek uses the visual language of computer games to produce site-specific works that simulate real-world environments and create fantasy narratives. His film for Glasgow International sees the Clyde-built QE2 cruise liner sail from Dubai to Scotland to be turned into an extension for the Glasgow School of Art. Chris Sharratt finds out why.
This week’s selection includes sculpture and drawing in Bexhill, digitally printed fabrics in Portsmouth and experimental film in London.
Gallery on Decima Street will act as home for next four years before anticipated move to permanent large-scale space on South Bank in 2020.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Bolton, Cardiff, Fife, Manchester and Wrexham.
A new artwork installed at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail reuses material from a previous sculpture to allow visitors to trace locations of hidden coal excavations buried 1,000ft below the surface.
The Freelands Foundation has launched a new award to raise the profile of women artists and support the work of visual arts organisations outside London.
The London-based artist Ben Cove, whose work explored art and design history with particular reference to modernism, has died unexpectedly after a short illness. Artist Emily Speed pays tribute to her friend and his work, while also collecting the thoughts of other artists and curators.
The London-based organisation that has played a key role in campaigning against oil sponsorship of the arts is looking for a new home due to its office rent more than doubling.
The STEAMHouse project will see the former Typhoo tea factory in Digbeth transformed through over £14 million of funding into a creative space featuring studios, workshops, equipment and support staff.
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Kendal and south London, graffiti art in Manchester, and video installations in Oxford and Gateshead.
Bristol based artist wins £8,000 award to create new work for solo exhibition at artist-run London gallery Standpoint in 2017.
New work by leading international and Scottish artists, alongside a focus on the work of ‘The Next Generation of Artists’, will be among the highlights of the 13th edition of the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has announced the publication of The Culture White Paper, the first government white paper on culture in England for over 50 years.
NVA has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland to save the iconic modernist building and bring it back to life as an arts centre and heritage destination.
Four artists have been shortlisted for UK’s first dedicated award for sculpture, with the winner receiving £30,000.
An exhibition of the seven finalists for this annual prize that showcases artists from UK art schools will take place at Londonewcastle Project Space in central London, with the winner of this 10th anniversary edition receiving £5,000.
Artist and former teacher Henry Ward is head of education at the Freelands Foundation, founded last year by Elisabeth Murdoch. a-n Writer Development Programme participant Lydia Ashman finds out more about the foundation and its forthcoming Art Is… symposium at Tate Modern.
S1 Artspace has announced more details of it planned relocation to Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate, following last week’s budget announcement of £1 million of government funding for the scheme.
For NVA’s Hinterland, a derelict former Catholic seminary near Glasgow has been bathed in light and sound before it is partly transformed into a new space for art and performance.
This week’s selection includes Simon Starling in Nottingham, Iwan Lewis’s paintings in Llandudno, and Sara Barker’s stage-like installations in Edinburgh.
This week’s selection of events and exhibitions, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on our Events section, takes us to Wales, London and Cambridge.
Launched on International Women’s Day, the idle women narrowboat will tour the waterways of Lancashire and West Yorkshire until 2017, connecting and initiating art by women throughout the region via a series of floating residencies. Sara Jaspan talks to the women behind the project and finds something to smile about in the midst of Lancashire’s biting council cuts.
This weekend and throughout April and May, intimate operatic experiences will be taking place people’s homes – courtesy of Opera Helps, a project by artist Joshua Sofaer.
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