A three-day residential workshop aimed at fostering a peer network among artist associate schemes takes place at Plymouth Arts Centre this weekend, as a ‘Jamboree’ of six such schemes meet to create long-lasting connections.
Council rejects collaboration between Bold Tendencies and Second Home in favour of rival proposal from Pop Community Ltd.
An installation by Ann Veronica Janssens is currently filling the gallery at the Wellcome Collection in London with an enveloping and brightly-coloured mist, as the first part of a year-long exploration into the experience of human consciousness.
The UK’s longest-running artist collective has announced the prize winners of its 82nd open exhibition.
As the Creative Time Summit NYC takes place this weekend at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, Nato Thompson speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the summit, his new book Seeing Power and how art can impact social change.
This week’s selection includes fantastical collages in London, risk-taking in Margate and exquisite painting and drawing in Kendal.
Four artists up for award that includes group exhibition at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, with winner receiving £30,000 in prize money.
The British Ceramics Biennial has selected the winner of its 2015 FRESH award for recent graduates.
Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section.
Artquest launched its System Failure series of conversations earlier this week with a discussion looking at how the arts funding system could be restructured to better benefit artists. We report from the event at Block 336, an artist-led space in Brixton, London.
Artwork created in memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists, who were executed by the Nigerian military almost 20 years ago, has been seized at Lagos port, with demands for its release ignored by authorities.
Southwark Council in London has been presented with plans to convert a multi-storey car park into ultra-affordable studios for artists and creative entrepreneurs.
Artist and poet Nancy Campbell explores the disappearing languages and environments of the Arctic in her latest limited edition work, which launches later this week at a book fair in London. Sarah Bodman tells the story behind Proviso.
Crowdsourced from the ideas of Middlesbrough and Teeside residents through a series of workshops and open calls, mima’s current exhibition Localism is about reasserting the importance of the local in both the development of society and the international art world.
Alice Cunningham’s solo exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, includes new works in marble developed while she was recipient of the 2014 Brian Mercer Stone Carving Residency in Pietrasanta, Italy. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about how she worked with a specialist stone carving studio to create the four works included in the show.
Over the next month, Sluice_ will be posting video footage of its recent talks programme which took place during Sluice_2015 in London, and looked at a diverse range of topics including public art, copyright and the abstract revival.
Liverpool-based artist Emma Sumner reports from two recent community arts focused events in the city, a Temporary Parliament tasked with selecting the winner of the 25,000 Euro Visible Award for ‘socially engaged practices in a global context’, and a conference organised by Liverpool Biennial which looked to learn from the legacy of community arts projects in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art.
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
For his first major commission in the UK, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has created an installation in the grounds of a disused church in Bristol that will be alive with performances and discussion day-and-night for 552 hours. Rowan Lear reports from the opening weekend.
Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Sam Thorne, currently artistic director of Tate St Ives, takes over position from Alex Farquharson who is leaving to become new head of Tate Britain.
A host of well-known faces from the arts, film and TV are featured in the visual campaign for Panic! What Happened to Social Mobility in the Arts?
Four artists who create work deemed to enrich the visual experience of our urban spaces have been shortlisted for the £10,000 award.
The Mayor of London says planners and developers need to put culture at the forefront of city developments, and uses new report to show them how.
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