This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a stand-out Glasgow show of new work as part of Generation in Scotland, to something spooky going on in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.
This week, London’s disability-led arts organisation Shape launches a new networking event to bring disabled and non-disabled artists together. We talk to programme coordinator Ben Fredericks about the project.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
Japan Drug by António Júlio Duarte, the new title from Portuguese publishers Pierre von Kleist Editions, excels with its focus on quiet and luminous photographs depicting a country at the dawn of a new millennium.
The leader of one of England’s National Portfolio Organisations speaks out about transparency, whistle blowing, the curse of arts buildings, and why artists feel disenfranchised from the arts funding system.
The 25th BP Portrait Award has been won by Thomas Ganter for his painting of a homeless German man.
Now in its tenth year, Embassy Gallery’s Annuale festival in Edinburgh celebrates artist-led collaboration in Scotland’s capital and beyond.
This week’s selections range from an exploration of ‘fabric’ trends in art at a small gallery in London, to The Hepworth, Wakefield’s first major survey show of Franz West’s work since his death two years ago.
The winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is artist and photographer Tabitha Jussa.
Arts figures including Brett Rogers of The Photographers’ Gallery and Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery are among those to receive OBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.
A new public realm project by Simon Faithfull will be hiding 500 copies of a limited edition artwork in the Tunbridge Wells branch of Morrisons’ supermarket. We talk to the artist and the curators who commissioned the work.
A continuous 24-hour event taking place this weekend in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will celebrate the launch of new digital art platform The Space.
Three weeks after a devastating fire at its historic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building, Glasgow School of Art’s Fine Art students present a showcase of their work that is both economical and emotionally charged.
The four museum/artist pairings shortlisted for the Contemporary Art Society’s £40,000 Annual Award have been announced.
Our PICTURED series on visually-rich art books is one year old. To mark the 25th instalment, Tim Clark takes a close look at The Photobook: A History Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger and the latest instalment from the acclaimed series on the history of the photobook.
The painter George Shaw has been announced as the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist and will work in the gallery over a period of two years.
Matt’s Gallery in London is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a fundraising party and tombola where even the event’s tickets are a limited edition artwork.
The current exhibitions director at London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery has been appointed as the British Council’s new director of visual arts.
Liz Hill reflects on a Warwick Commission debate which revealed the enthusiasm of the creative industries for better creative and cultural education in schools – and the barriers to making it happen.
Shadowing, an interactive work by New York and Treviso-based duo Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, has won Watershed’s Playable City Award.
New a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott talks about growing up around contemporary art and explains why an organisation with artists at its heart “feels like home”.
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
Among the 1200-plus works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a huge text painting by Bob and Roberta Smith, featuring the transcript of a harrowing interview with a doctor recently returned from Syria.
Arts Council England has announced that £180m of Lottery funds will be used for the core funding of NPOs involved in touring or working with children and young people.
Alternative insights into the visual arts, with fast-paced news, comment, debate.
Get in touch
[email protected]
a-n offers a range of memberships for individuals and groups – from £38 annually – find out more.
Supported by:
