Hackney WickED festival: a cultural phenomenon
After a break last year for the Olympics, the sixth edition of the Hackney WickED Art Festival takes place this weekend in London’s East End. We talk to the people who make it happen.
After a break last year for the Olympics, the sixth edition of the Hackney WickED Art Festival takes place this weekend in London’s East End. We talk to the people who make it happen.
One of London’s best known art meccas faces an uncertain future following the decision by Westminster Council to redevelop the area into luxury apartments.
This weekend’s Cove Park Open Day is a chance to meet artists in residence and to bid farewell to the centre’s current building before re-development work starts in 2014. We talk to Director Julian Forrester about what’s in store this weekend, and beyond.
West Bromwich arts centre to cease current activities on 30 November.
Five of the leading professional subject associations for art, dance, drama and music are working together to ensure that arts teachers are heard in discussions around education and arts teaching.
Followers of @an_artnews composed over 100 tweets in a lively debate sparked by the Art Everywhere project.
This week’s must-see shows range from the intense, tropical canvases of Peter Doig in Edinburgh to sound art in South London.
The visual arts, collaboration and experimentation will be on the agenda at this weekend’s Supernormal festival in rural Oxfordshire. We speak to Sam Francis about her curated programme focussing on gender roles in the realms of art and music.
The UK-wide Art Everywhere project, which sees art on billboards and posters across the country, has been launched at an event in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Judy Thomas pays tribute to the Newcastle upon Tyne-based artist Andrea MJ Toth, who sadly passed away on 14 July following a two and a half year battle with breast cancer.
Axisweb announce three sessions that explore next step strategies for new artists after graduation.
A four-strong shortlist for this award that supports early career moving image artists has been chosen from a longlist of 150 submissions.
An artist-led project space in Manchester’s Northern Quarter is trying to raise funds to replace the recent theft of its uninsured electrical equipment.
The current Head of the Arts Council Collection is to replace outgoing Director Paul Hobson at the Contemporary Art Society.
For the fifth part in our series that highlights visually-rich art books, Tim Clark sits down with Guillaume Simoneau’s recently published Love and War, and ponders the complex and overlapping narratives of a female soldier fighting in the Iraq war and a love story gone awry.
A just announced interim plan from the Scottish arts funding body reveals that artform reviews will underpin the development of a longer-term plan for 2014-17.
This week’s must-see shows range from a gaze into the mysteries of the ocean deep at Nottingham Contemporary to portraits of Man Ray’s muses in Edinburgh.
During a recent live web chat, Arts Council England Chief Executive Alan Davey talked about ACE’s commitment to supporting individual artists and the need focus on both intrinsic and instrumental arguments for the arts.
The five nominees for this year’s Max Mara prize for UK-based women artists have been announced by the Whitechapel Gallery.
Now in its sixth year, the ten shortlisted artists for the annual Film London Jarman Award reveal the broad range of experimental filmmakers working in the UK.
A free magazine from Scotland’s Sync organisation aims to stimulate discussion and encourage a wider interaction with new technologies in the arts.
The Design and Artists Copyright Society’s Payback service is open for applications. Find out how visual artists can earn money from copyright protected artworks.
Do you have a question for Arts Council England (ACE) chief Alan Davey about the future of arts funding? Take part in the Guardian Culture Profesionals live chat this afternoon from 2pm.
With a brand identity designed by Jim Lambie and a programme of artist initiated projects courtesy of David Dale Gallery, the recently announced cultural programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games sees plenty of visual arts alongside the sport.
For the fourth edition in our new series exploring visually-rich art books, Tim Clark reflects on the performative life and real-time experience of photographs in Tom Lovelace’s publication, Work Starts Here.