Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.
Manchester School of Art graduate Becca Halliwell-Sutton has won the £20,000 Woon Prize, hosted by Northumbria University at Baltic 39 in Newcastle.
This week’s selection includes emerging Midlands artists working with photography, 500 years of painters’ paintings at the National Gallery, and Imran Qureshi’s work on paper and canvas in Cornwall.
DACS Foundation’s Art360 project has awarded funding to 26 artists and estates in the 2016 round of funding for its three-year project, which aims to support the preservation of artists’ archives.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: curatorial team set for London’s King’s Cross; arson attack results in relocation of Liverpool Biennial artwork; protests against Australian arts cuts; and Christie’s art sale exceeds post-Brexit estimates.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Artangel’s new commission for the Houses of Parliament offers a timely preservation of Westminster’s history. Jack Hutchinson takes a look at this latex installation by artist Jorge Otero-Pailos.
As the degree show season draws to a close, we take a final look at a-n’s Instagram coverage with highlights from Nadine Shaban’s takeovers at the City & Guilds of London Art School degree show and the Royal College of Art graduate shows.
This week’s selection includes a consideration of how certain details of a painting can be overlooked or dismissed in Manchester, a new light installation in Penarth and a show curated by a fashion designer in London.
Creative Industries Federation chief executive John Kampfner and Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar on the arts post-Brexit.
Five projects and programmes from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Bracknell, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth and Halesworth.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
As the UK votes to leave the EU, artists and those working in the visual arts have been responding on social media.
The representative body for visual artists in Ireland is proposing that a tourist bed tax should be introduced in the country, with funds raised going to the arts and cultural sector.
The decline in the take-up of arts subjects at GCSE has increased five-fold over the past year, coinciding with a dramatic rise in young people studying EBacc subjects. Arts Professional’s Liz Hill reports.
This year’s top prize goes to Clara Drummond for her third BP Portrait Award of the same sitter.
The five painters shortlisted for the biennial open submission prize have been announced, with the winner set to take home £25,000 while the other prizewinners each receive £2,500.
More degree show views from a-n’s Instagram as Sheyda Porter visits the show at Northumbria University and discovers artistic collaborations and a focus on the everyday, Chris Sharratt enjoys a perfect pint at Glasgow School of Art BA show and Richard Taylor uncovers a number of site-specific works at the MFA.
This week’s selection includes Spiritualist watercolours in London, North Indian art in Glasgow and an exhibition curated by a former Turner Prize winner in Manchester.
Six artists up for £10,000 award focusing on moving image work by UK-based artist filmmakers.
At 58 pages, this year’s a-n Degree Shows Guide is the biggest yet and features interviews with artist Bedwyr Williams and mima director Alistair Hudson, plus contributions from artists including Ruth Ewan, George Barber and Marianna Simnett. Available on issuu and as downloadable pdf.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Artists and the wider visual arts community ask questions and share their views on Twitter in the Great British Artists’ EU Referendum Debate.
Tate Modern’s new Switch House extension finally opens to the public on Friday. Fisün Guner takes a tour of the 10-storey building and is thrilled with what she finds but left wanting more.
The new Mayor of London says he wants to embed culture in the planning system of the capital with the results including subsidised artists’ studios.
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