In the lead up to this year’s Turner Prize exhibition opening in Glasgow, a showcase of works by former Scottish winners and nominees will set off on a tour of Scotland in The Travelling Gallery.
Norfolk Museums Service has been awarded £81,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a digital archive of the work and journals of pioneering photographer Olive Edis.
Following comments by Chicago’s mayor about a Chinese copy of the city’s Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture being a form of ‘flattery’, the artist issues an angry statement in defence of ‘hard won creativity’.
Iraqi-born, Cardiff-based artist Rabab Ghazoul is one of five artists featured in the Iraq Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, with a three-channel video piece that focuses on Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
This week’s selection includes abstract painting on a car park roof in south London, edible sculpture in Leeds and long distance communication in Southend-on-Sea.
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has announced the winners of its annual art prizes for artists working in lens-based media and water-based media, plus its annual travel award for graduates and current postgraduate students.
Commissioned projects at this year’s ‘celebration of digital culture’, which takes place in September, will include a pop-up shop selling white noise, an immersive map tracking the movement of transport infrastructure, and a work that uses the virtual world to explore human identity and post-colonialism.
Five events posted by a-n’s members onto the popular Events listings section, including exhibitions and events in Hampshire, Harrow, Leicester, Stockport and Willesden Green.
In a piece originally published by The Conversation, Jade French – a writer for Disability Arts Online – argues that, with an exhibition from Unlimited and other initiatives, this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is foregrounding great art rather than paying lip service to diversity.
The Icelandic Art Center, commissioners of Christoph Büchel’s The Mosque, has abandoned its legal appeal against the Venetian authorities’ closure in May of the Icelandic Pavilion.
Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise front-runner in the Labour leadership contest, has been setting out his vision for arts and culture.
Two events in Manchester and Blackpool will feature art, craft, live performance and music, plus special commissions from artists.
Members of the PCS union working at the National Gallery in London have started indefinite industrial action over plans to privatise their jobs.
Flat Time House in Peckham is set to close next summer when the property is sold.
Last year, artist and curator Emma Sumner took a research trip to India which saw her visit an extensive network of organisations at the heart of this vast country’s contemporary art scene. Here she highlights three of them and explores what can be learnt from their approach to art and funding.
UK’s longest-running artists’ collective announce first details of latest edition of biennial exhibition.
This week’s selection includes contemporary portraiture at the V&A, a response to Salibury’s picturesque surroundings and Richard Long in Bristol.
Gateshead’s Baltic gallery has appointed Sarah Munro, Glasgow Life’s head of arts, as its new director.
This week’s selection of projects from a-n members – listed on our diverse events section – includes a family exhibition and two street-based interventions in Blackpool and Spain that take street fundraising and crowdsourcing to a new level.
The sixth edition of the Oxfordshire festival offers an alternative to traditional music festivals by placing visual art at the centre, including commissions resulting from an a-n Go and See Bursary. Jack Hutchinson reports.
Events for the 2015 AND festival in Grizedale Forest include exhibitions, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions, treks, trails and performances.
The Chinese artist has told a German newspaper that he now has a new and more positive relationship with the Chinese authorities following the recent return of his passport.
New research commissioned by Axisweb highlights the contribution made by artists whose practices exist outside of the traditional gallery system by exploring the structures that enable and impede their visibility and success.
Flying Object, winners of the IK Prize 2015, are set to launch their multi-sensory environment at Tate Britain later this month – an experiential experiment that will see how taste, touch, smell and sound impact on how audiences encounter four paintings from the Tate collection.
A new report produced by The Audience Agency in partnership with CVAN illustrates how galleries play a significant role in the visitor economy.
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