On the cover – 2006 July
Lorna B Hughes, Upholstered pigeon seats.
Lorna B Hughes, Upholstered pigeon seats.
Paul Cole, Pink Hat, oil on canvas, 225x165cm
Ayling and Conroy, Ping pong asteroid, from ‘Fight for sore eyes’ at My House Gallery, as part of Sideshow, 2006.
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Cultural diversity is a term that has pervaded our language and thinking across all sectors of life and institutions, and its latest manifestation of citizenship is perhaps the most coercive strategy being employed by government.
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Its the drive and imagination of artists that is leading major exposures on contemporary visual arts in Leeds and Stroud in May and June that both focus on location.
The opportunities available for visual and applied artists to participate in professional development programmes and develop their careers continue to expand.
Paris San Francisco-based Hou Hanrou will curate the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
At a time when over half of those surveyed by Arts Professional confirmed that diverting funds from the arts to the Olympics would not bring benefits to the arts in the longer term, Arts Council England has now come clean and announced intentions to cut the Grants for the Arts budget by one third.
In December 2006, Guyan Porter began a two-month residency in Sri Lanka, as one of the first of a group of six artists to work at the Chandrasavanah Creation Centre in the south of the island.
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
Sculptor Andrew Sabin is presenting new work in an exhibition now showing at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park. Previous public realm projects include being lead artist on the Sustrans Wandle Trail in Surrey and commissioned artist in Canterbury City Council’s Horsebridge […]
The £83 million Arts Council England fund for Grants for the Arts (G4A) has been cut by 35% to £54 million for 2007/08 with falling lottery ticket sales and the first of the Olympics raids on these funds blamed. With […]
Chintan Upadhyay and Bose Krishnamachari have been voicing their concerns about Indian curatorial practice through their art projects for the last few years. Considering their arguments, JohnyML says that Indian curatorial practice is going through a phase of crisis; a phase of identity crisis.
As a follow-up to his article in March a-n Magazine Terry Anderson, President of the Scottish Artists Union presents his case for a re-appraisal of the proposed Culture (Scotland) Bill.
Various locations, Cardiff
14-17 March
Cubitt, London
23 February 18 April
Eastbourne District General Hospital, Eastbourne
19 February – 25 March
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
13 March 21 April
Site, Liverpool
21 March 21 April>
Cornerhouse, Manchester
10 February 1 April
and
Space, London
17 February 14 April
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences.
Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää’s work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda.