A 2012 podcast with the American abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly, who died on 27 December 2015 aged 92, is a fitting tribute to this 20th century giant.
The founder and director of Situations Claire Doherty has been recognised in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list for her outstanding contribution to the arts in the public realm, while artist Phyllida Barlow and Henry Moore Foundation director Godfrey Worsdale also receive honours for services to the arts.
There’s been plenty for new BALTIC director to celebrate in 2015, from bringing the Turner Prize to Glasgow while head of Tramway, to becoming the Gateshead venue’s first female director. Sarah Munro reflects on a “rollercoaster” of a year and a new job that makes her “tingle with excitement”.
Since 15 October, artist Jo Chapman has marked her 10-week residency on Shetland with a post (almost) every day on her a-n blog. She recalls a shifting and exciting year of upheaval that saw her without a studio and ‘almost itinerant’.
The artist who represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale looks back over a year of lovely memories and hard work.
The Birmingham-based artist-run organisation has spent the year trying to be ‘useful, productive, supportive and critical’, while grappling with the ‘highs and horrors’ of the world. Gavin Wade explains.
London-based Scottish artist Ruth Ewan is one of five artists shortlisted for the 6th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, with the winner to be announced in early in 2016. 2015? It’s been a bit of a blur, she says.
The highlight of 2015 for Belfast-based filmmaker Seamus Harahan was winning the Film London Jarman Award in November. He reflects on a difficult year that, in the end, has been “kind of amazing”.
In the second of our end-of-year questionnaires, artist Gordon Shrigley – who ran as a candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch in this year’s general election – reflects on a topsy-turvy 2015.
For the final Now Showing selection of 2015, Jack Hutchinson selects seven must-see shows over the holiday period.
As protests continue over the plan to move the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design to a new site in Islington, the faculty’s dean has resigned having earlier been suspended over his disagreement with the relocation.
This year has seen the Bristol-based public art commissioning organisation, Situations, present one of its most ambitious and high-profile events yet with Theaster Gates’ Sanctum project. In the first of our end of year series, its director looks back on a ‘breakthrough’ year and looks forward to more support for public art that is ‘temporary and unfolding’.
The final conversation in Artquest’s System Failure series took the opportunity to unpick the different approaches of education versus exhibition departments within galleries and museums.
Five exhibitions and public works from a-n members on display during the holiday season, selected from a-n’s Events section.
The Scottish Government’s draft budget for 2016/17 sees a nearly 4% cut to Creative Scotland with further reductions to cultural collections budget and the country’s five national performing companies.
Kitty Scott announced as co-curator of 2018 edition, while Julie Lomax becomes director of development of the leading art festival.
It’s been a busy and fruitful year for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign, with plenty of activity across the UK and internatioanally. Paying Artists Project Manager Julie McCalden looks back over 2015.
Situated on a rubble-strewn plot opposite Glasgow’s Tramway, Pollokshields Playhouse is opening its gates for film screenings in a shipping container, storytelling and soup made over an open fire. Richard Taylor visits the Albert Drive site to hear more about this community project.
The renowned American artist is to donate one impression of all future prints created in his lifetime to Tate.
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
How is public art funded? Where is public art happening? Why do we value about public art? ixia requires your views for its fourth annual survey.
This week’s selection includes a million objects at South London Gallery, an exploration of how social media is impacting on personal identity at Liverpool’s FACT, and a Bill Murray-inspired installation at BALTIC, Gateshead.
A Kickstarter for the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund, which aims to turn electricity generated by a wind turbine into a funding stream for radical art projects, has smashed its £1500 target.
Artist wins Aspex Gallery’s biennial open competition for graphite rubbings from Jimi Hendrix’s former London home.
This week we take a look at a selection of Christmas fairs and exhibitions from a-n members, posted in our Events section.
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