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Re:Thinking Trade
During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.
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Emotional learning
Iniva and A Space have produced a new set of Emotional Learning Cards, following the success of the first set ‘What do you feel?’.
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Editorial – 2010 November
In these exceptional times, practitioners and arts professionals need to ensure their messages have clarity when making the case for the arts.
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Re: Art and oil
Have just picked up on the Liberate the Tate Debate (a-n Magazine, September and October 2010) and will begin by emphatically stating that I am no apologist for the Oil Industry.
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Re: Great open submission swindle
Stephen Black suggests that many of the major ‘open submission’ art events are less than democratic in their selection, and therefore a disproportionate number of artists are wasting their money by entering (a-n Magazine, September 2010).
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Re: Great open submission swindle
As an artist who has entered open submissions and as a manager of an artist-led, not for profit gallery space (Core Gallery, Deptford) which held its first open submission this year, I feel I can give a slightly different insight into this subject than those laid out in the last two issues of a-n, as to what your open submission fees actually go towards (a-n Magazine, September and October 2010).
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Re: Great open submission swindle
The Royal Academy of Arts wishes to record its objection to the published letter by Stephen Black in the September issue of a-n Magazine (Great open submission swindle).
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State Of Practice
A large gap exists today between the reality of being an artist and the image of The Artist which is portrayed by history and media, and perceived by the general public. Rich White asks what do artists actually do for society, how can they help with regeneration, particularly in a time of recession, and what is its real value?
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ACE faces heavy criticism from Select Committee
Arts Council heavily criticised and arts community accused of ‘scaremongering’ during heated inquiry into funding of arts and heritage by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
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NAN in conversation with Grey Area
In September 2009, Grey Area was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Estonia for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Daniel Pryde-Jarman of Grey Area about the bursary and its impact on the group.
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NAN in conversation with Artichoke Studios
In March 2010, Artichoke Studios was awarded a NAN Go and See bursary in order to visit Dynamic Community Arts in Birmingham and Green Close Studios in Melling. Emilia Telese talks to group member Keith Parkinson about the bursary and its impact on the group.
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a-n Magazine October 2010
Contents include: Artists and curators talking, professional development and rural initiatives features: In Debate: Helen Sloan argues that we need to define the visual arts and stand up for its meaning before taking on philanthropic funding. Kate Genever and poets […]
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Companion Stones
Artist Kate Genever and poets Jo Bell and Ann Atkinson discuss their collaboration on a public sculpture project in the Peak District, creating contemporary sculptures in response to early eighteenth-century guidestoops that stand across the Derbyshire moorlands.
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Supporting professional practice
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.
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Rural initiatives
Featuring a selection of the UK’s arts organisations that are providing vivid cultural life to rural areas.
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Artists and Curators Talking
A-n and Axis are launching a new programme of dynamic, practice-led discussions on hospitality, space and contemporary art making, researched and directed by artist, curator and writer Sonya Dyer. Here, she sets out her thinking for the programme.
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Big picture – 2010 October
Dolly Thompsett, Night Landing (Blue)
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Gallery as critical friend
In the twenty-five years since its foundation, Castlefield Gallery has evolved, adapted and outlived many of the buzz words first used about it, but one thing has remained absolutely constant – its aim to support artists.
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Arts funding – fact or fiction?
On 2 September, the BBC posted a news story on its website claiming that “Two-thirds of people agree with the government’s stance on cutting arts funding and increasing reliance on private cash, a survey has suggested.”
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Frieze week
Frieze Art Fair 2010 is fast approaching, and with over 170 galleries exhibiting in Regent’s Park this year, London’s most influential art fair is bigger than ever.
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Prizes and awards
This month’s selection of shortlists and winners.
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Curating new technologies
The annual Craft Curators Forum, a networking and discussion event from the Crafts Council, was held in London 23-24 September.
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Tracking AIR activism
Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.
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On the cover – 2010 October
John Stark, Rose Garden, oil on wood panel, 50cm diameter, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist and CHARLIE SMITH london.
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Commonality across cultures
For twenty-five years Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre has focused on exchange of creative practice from one culture to another.
