It’s been fascinating to watch the lively turnover of postings on Interface1 since its launch, both critical writing posted to Reviews unedited and a-n subscribers posting details of their upcoming shows on Interface What’s on.
Many artists aspire to permanent studio space, whether self-initiated or rented through a specialist organisation. Here, we explore some current options for artists and makers with the focus not only on developments in London but also elsewhere in England, Wales and Ireland.
Edited by Jeanine Griffin and Steve Dutton, looks at the issue of local versus global with reference to the ever increasing number of biennials and city-wide exhibition projects taking place around the world. Includes essays by John Byrne, Neil Mulholland […]
The new developments at the Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange have had a mixed response from local and national media, with three main strands.
Julia Manheim was appointed lead artist by West Sussex County Council to explore how art might be incorporated into the fabric of new school buildings in Crawley.
Members of Laundry – an association of West Midlands-based artists whose work includes digital media, community arts, visual arts and performance – presented work at Gothenburg’s artist-led Galleri 54 in November.
News from the 2007 Zoo Art Fair.
‘Beacon’ is a recurring feature within the Lincolnshire expanse, with 2007 seeing the fourth annual collection of sited works in the county’s rural landscape and towns.
New appointments and farewells.
A report from the Education and Skills Select Committee has confirmed the value of Creative Partnerships’ work within the curriculum.
Scotland’s largest gathering of artists, arts organisations and delegates from the cultural sector will converge on Edinburgh next year for a three-day cultural summit.
Through devising Research Paper: Biennials and city-wide events, editors Steve Dutton and Jeanine Griffin have sought to articulate some of the creative constraints and opportunities that such events invoke.
Though the imprecision of ideas expressed in Dave Grimbleby’s letter (a-n Magazine October issue) hampers meaningful dialogue, I do think he is attempting to raise a set of common-place misconceptions and ill-conceived objections to contemporary art. Firstly, Dave is hostile […]
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today.
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
Rather than asking what a biennial represents, it may be worthwhile to shift the emphasis of the question and examine how it represents. That is: How is it experienced?
Despite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis.
20 Portman Square and 92 George Street, London
13 October – 11 November
International Project Space, Birmingham
27 September – 3 November
The Old Fire Station, Manchester
Castlefield Gallery offsite project
6, 13, 20, 27 October
Collective and other locations, Edinburgh
5 October – 3 November
Fermynwoods, Northamptonshire
13 September – 28 October
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
22 September – 24 November
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
Contents include: Government Spending Review announced, Ixia on public art and planning, and Crafts Council unveils new strategy. Artists’ professional development opportunities under the spotlight and live art showcased at ‘Vital 07’. Chisenhale Open and new book by Black Dog […]
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