For her online artwork We Need Us – currently showing at group exhibitions in Manchester and London – Julie Freeman has powered an audio-visual animation with live data from the citizen science project The Zooniverse. She explains why data and how it’s used is so important in our increasingly digital lives.
Media Space associate curator and 1000 Words editor Tim Clark looks back over the year’s photo book releases and picks ten exceptional titles published in 2015.
London Metropolitan University’s plans to move the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design from the East End focus of debate as artist Bob and Roberta Smith creates new artwork in protest.
In the latest in our series of picture-focused articles we take a look at the Radcliffe Infirmary Commemorative Commission, featuring artists Simon Periton, Antoni Malinowski and Daniel Silver.
The Turner Prize is no stranger to cries of ‘Is it art?’, but this year even those who live and breath contemporary art have been sceptical about awarding the £25,000 prize to the architecture collective, Assemble. Chris Sharratt welcomes the question.
The winner of this year’s Turner Prize, announced at Tramway in Glasgow, is the architecture collective Assemble.
Crusader Mill in Manchester, the city-centre home of Rogue Studios for the last 15 years, has been sold to property developers.
Arts Council England has announced support for three projects aimed at stimulating ‘ambition, talent and excellence, and cultural development’ across the country, including a new public realm project on the south west coast of England managed by Bristol-based Situations.
This week’s selection includes a reexamination of Roland Barthes in Manchester, sculpture in Nottingham and found objects in Gateshead.
Platform-London’s unauthorised Deadline Festival at Tate Modern, in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the arts, has unsurprisingly been met with restrictions from the venue but its organisers plan to carry on regardless.
International study says the ‘moral and economic rights’ of artists must be protected if they are to sustain their creative activity and fuel the economy. Frances Richens reports.
US artist Jon Rubin designs limited edition football scarf, free to the first 2000 fans through turnstiles at next home game.
Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section, from neon art in Walthamstow to steel manufacturing in Middlesbrough.
The biennial art festival is aiming to raise funds for a new project and social space for the 2016 edition, with rewards for pledgers including studio visits, limited edition artwork, workshops and behind the scenes tours.
On the eve of the United Nations’ International Day of Disabled People, Unlimited’s Jo Verrent says there is still much to be done in supporting the work of disabled artists, but that this is an opportunity to commit to change.
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
There have been some fantastic artists’ books published this year and Sarah Bodman at UWE Bristol’s Centre for Fine Print Research has read most of them. Here she picks ten of her favourites.
43 recent graduates from five West Midlands art schools will exhibit their work over four venues across the region from February 2016, as part of this large-scale partnership exhibition from Turning Point West Midlands.
The artist-led space in Bethnal Green, founded in 2004 by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, is fighting to retain its space as developers bid for its home of nine years.
This week’s selection includes a reflection on obsolete technology in London, an exploration of fiction and alternative realities in Nottingham, and found objects and immersive environments in Oxford.
Ahead of next week’s climate summit in Paris, over 300 artists, writers, musicians and actors have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to reach an agreement to halt global warming.
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s popular Events section.
Beth Bate, director of Great North Run Culture, has been appointed head of the Dundee arts organisation.
Looking for Christmas present ideas but want to avoid the high street? Why not support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art by purchasing unusual or limited edition works online instead. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off, from a 50p badge to a £400 print.
The chancellor George Osborne announced surprisingly positive news for Arts Council England in his spending review speech, with expected cuts turning into a modest increase in cash. But, cautions Mark Robinson, there’s much more to funding the arts than national portfolio organisations and major museums.
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