NOW SHOWING #115: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes Chinese martial arts in Derby, Kinect laser-scanning in Manchester and a new perspective on industrial objects in Glasgow.
This week’s selection includes Chinese martial arts in Derby, Kinect laser-scanning in Manchester and a new perspective on industrial objects in Glasgow.
Tate Modern this week announced the date for the opening of its new extension, designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
The studio, residency and gallery space in south London reopens with increased exhibition space, more studios, and with the freehold of the building now secured.
The Shock of Victory exhibition at Glasgow’s CCA brings together artists from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Greece and Palestine to explore artistic responses to the post-referendum climate and broader political realities. Chris Sharratt finds out more from three of those involved.
Record number of galleries set to participate in annual art fair focusing on emerging artists.
A new survey seeks to build a picture of social mobility and the backgrounds of those working in the arts, and is accompanied by a programme of events, art commissions and a visual campaign by the designer Peter Saville.
Artists’ moving image works take a central place in this year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, directed by newly appointed Peter Taylor.
Deutsche Börse Prize nominee Zanele Muholi has been documenting the LGBT community in her home country of South Africa for nearly ten years, creating a body of work that has been shown around the world. As a show of her photography opens in Liverpool, Laura Robertson talks to her.
As part of the LightPool project, which is introducing new projection mapping technology to Blackpool’s famous illuminations, Grundy Art Gallery has been transformed by a series of installation environments celebrating artists’ fascination with the properties of light.
This year’s New Contemporaries exhibition in Nottingham reveals that UK art school graduates are conscientious, striving for professionalism and seemingly unwilling to make a decisive break with current established practice. Wayne Burrows reports.
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
This week’s selection includes Ai Weiwei’s widely acclaimed Royal Academy show, a multi-screen installation in Liverpool, and an examination of the history of online scamming in Manchester.
Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Set against the backdrop of its Newcastle city centre building being lost to redevelopment, a recent two-day event at the artist-led NewBridge Project in Newcastle asked whether it was time for artists to ‘grow up’ and accept the new agenda of cuts, philanthropy and big business sponsorship. Artist Lesley Guy joined in the conversation and came to a different conclusion.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
As part of the year-long fig-2 show, which sees a new artist exhibiting every week at London’s ICA, the winner of the Student Open Call is Goldsmiths MFA student Manuel Mathieu.
Londoners are invited to join the internationally-renowned artists this Thursday on a walk through London in support of refugees.
The South African artist William Kentridge is a staple of international art biennials, a critically acclaimed art superstar known for his theatrical, thoughtful work. With an exhibition featuring two new films currently showing at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery, Dany Louise discovers more about the politics and processes behind his art.
Member-run organisation Making Art Work has organised Art Market, a day of artists’ stalls, performances and a charity art auction taking place in Maidstone, Kent.
Tom Harrison has been awarded the £8000 prize for his elevated depiction of the Singapore cityscape.
The UK’s longest-established painting prize is open for entries from now until 9 November 2015.
Almost 1000 organisations in 49 countries will be taking part in the annual event that sees museum and gallery curators answering the public’s questions on Twitter.
At the recent opening of the 13th Lyon Biennale, artists have been rewriting the interpretation panels for their work.