Visual arts charity Arts Express has launched the UK’s ‘first ever community arts prize’ to celebrate and showcase the work of artists who create participatory and socially engaged projects.
Showcase exhibition to feature works by 72 graduates selected from 2014 degree shows across Scotland, including works by graduates affected by last year’s fire at Glasgow School of Art.
The latest round of a-n’s Re:view bursaries – supporting artists to develop a self-determined professional development and mentoring programme – is now open for applications. Here we signpost the application information and profile some of the successful projects from 2014.
The shortlist for the ninth Catlin Art Prize features eight artists, with recent graduates of the Royal College of Art dominating the selection.
This year’s annual a-n Degree Shows Guide will be published on 1 May, and the early bird deadline for advertising is fast approaching.
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced the 48 artists selected for its triennial open exhibition, presenting a cross-section of work being made across the capital today.
This week’s selection includes a show in Walsall featuring seven artists who work with found imagery, a solo presentation of work by the Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser in Edinburgh, and a Sheffield-based artist group at PAPER in Manchester.
The Spode Factory in Stoke is to be converted into a hub for artists as part of a £700,000 scheme following Art Council England’s wider investment in cultural venues across the Midlands.
Manchester’s FutureEverything festival this year celebrates 20 years of exploring digital culture. Luke Healey reports on the festival’s performance-based visual arts strand which included work from Memo Akten, Emmanuel Biard and Blast Theory.
Our busy Events section features events and exhibitions posted by a-n members. We pick five highlights from the next seven days, including shows in Gloucester, Eastbourne and Ramsgate.
To mark International Women’s Day, New York’s Art+Feminism is organising its second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, with events happening internationally including in the UK.
A new YouTube video from the street artist Banksy shows a series of new works in bomb-damaged Gaza.
The west of England sculpture trail has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2016 with a series of new temporary and permanent commissions.
The Glasgow-based artist Katy Dove, who last summer presented a solo show as part of the Scotland-wide Generation exhibition, has died aged 44.
The Leader of the Opposition set out the Labour Party’s priorities for the arts, creative industries and cultural education at a speech in London yesterday evening.
The BBC kicked off its new Get Creative initiative with a live Front Row debate from Hull Truck Theatre titled ‘Are artists owed a living?’ Chris Sharratt reports.
A high-level body from the cultural sector whose role is to advise the Mayor of London on the promotion of the capital as a world-class city of culture has voiced its backing for the Paying Artists campaign.
This week’s selections include Cornelia Parker in Manchester, Fujiko Nakaya in Bristol and a wall drawing made from fingerprints in Nottingham.
Staff at The National Gallery in London are planning a second five-day strike against privatisation starting on Sunday.
The Paying Artists campaign has launched two online surveys for artists and galleries/curators as part of its efforts to secure exhibition fees for all artists exhibiting in publicly funded galleries.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
A major new arts initiative led by the BBC and What Next? launches this week with a series of events and debates across the UK.
Published to accompany a Tate Britain exhibition, Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860, is a catalogue of rare photographs from the advent of the medium that are both magical and mundane. Tim Clark takes a step back in time.
£30,000 of prize money has been awarded to artists by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation.
The final report of the Warwick Commission inquiry finds the future of cultural value as lying in a seamless relationship between the cultural sector and the creative industries, coupled with a focus on enterprise and creativity in schools. Liz Hill and Frances Richens report.
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