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LUX Scotland and BBC launch new commissioning partnership for artists’ moving image
The new partnership has an emphasis on collaboration and will commission 20 new works from three call-outs over one year, with works to be shown on a variety of BBC platforms on air and online.
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Glasgow School of Art director steps down after five years in role
Tom Inns, whose time as director of Glasgow School of Art has been marked by two major fires at the school’s historic Mackintosh building, has resigned.
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New Art360 archiving app launched: “We want to empower artists to shape the stories about their art”
The new app is produced by the Art360 Foundation with support from DACS and is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play.
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Now Showing #261: The week’s top exhibitions
Five recommended shows from across the UK, with exhibitions in Cardiff, London, Newcastle, Manchester and North Uist.
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Liverpool Biennial: artist Banu Cennetoğlu’s memorial to dead refugees daubed with graffiti in third instance of vandalism
The project which documents the names of the 34,361 people who have lost their lives trying to reach Europe since 1993 has been attacked again.
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CCA Glasgow: ‘Indefinite’ closure puts city’s flagship arts venue on “financial knife edge”
The venue on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, which has been closed since the Glasgow School of Art fire in June, was hoping to reopen to the public on 14 September. However, Glasgow City Council has now stated that it is still not safe and there is currently no date for reoccupation.
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Pictures of… the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 shortlist
Four photographers have been shortlisted for the annual international prize which this year includes portraits of South African majorettes, London shoppers, and a young boy in a remote village in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province.
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Glasgow School of Art dismantling on schedule as cordon around Mackintosh Building remains
Work to stabilise the fire-ravaged building is continuing on schedule as the impact on businesses, residents and arts organisations within the security cordon continues to be felt.
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As dismantling work begins on Mackintosh building, Glasgow School of Art director says it will be rebuilt
In his first interview since the Mackintosh building fire on 15 June, Glasgow School of Art director Tom Inns has confirmed that the Mack will be rebuilt.
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Glasgow School of Art fire: a tragedy that demands answers
As numbness turns to anger following Friday night’s fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building, Chris Sharratt hopes that the building can rise again after this second even more devastating blaze.
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Queen’s Birthday Honours List: Lubaina Himid, Rose Wylie and Liverpool Biennial and Peer directors receive honours
The artists Lubaina Himid and Rose Wylie, plus Liverpool Biennial director Sally Tallant and Peer founder and director Ingrid Swenson, are among those working in the visual arts who receive honours this year.
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Ambitious new Elephant in the room as Griffin Gallery closes
London’s Griffin Gallery is to close after six years to make way for a new White City based interdisciplinary project space, Elephant West, which is due to open autumn 2018.