Members of Bristol’s biggest artist-led collective Jamaica Street Artists (JSA) have teamed up with Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery for an exhibition and auction that they hope will raise substantial funds towards the purchase of their building.
Castle & Elephant is a new gallery in the centre of Coventry. Rather than having a fixed abode it will exist in constant transition, moving to available empty shop units in the City Arcade.
The Photographers’ Gallery has named Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Donovan Wylie as the four shortlisted artists nominated for its annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.
Contents include: Money matters and Commissioning now features; Why public art online is under threat in debate; Katie Paterson in Big picture; Collaborative relationships features Ania Bas at the New Art Gallery Walsall. PDF version [size 5 MB]. Requires PDF […]
Haroon Mirza, Adhãn (detail), 2009. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.
At the end of another exceptional year for a-n The Artists Information Company, we are taking stock of some of the key milestones for artists this year, as well as forecasting for the climate in which artists might expect to be working in the next decade.
I read the October contribution to Debate by Tim Joss with pleasure. Although written for a political purpose it proved one of the most cogent and positive pieces of art criticism I have read in recent years.
a-n Magazine, November 2009 page six posed the question “should [there] be a return to a privately-funded [education] system?” I thought I’d share my own experience.
Arts Council England claims that “all our arts policies prioritise strengthening and developing the infrastructure for the artform” – so why, asks Andrew Knight, is the future of Public Art Online under threat?
Eleonora Schinella considers the alternative perspectives on the art world through both the exhibitions reviewed, and the reviews themselves when researching Interface as an alternative archive.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
Contents include: UK studio organisations profiled in Creative places; Rona Smith’s North Elevation architectural collaboration in Collaborative relationships; state of higher education debates; plus Reviews from UK and Ireland. PDF version [size 5.4 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
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Organised by Sophie Hope, co-facilitated with Veronica Restrepo and held at London
Paris Photo (Carrousel du Louvre, 19-22 November) is the place to be for anyone interested in or working with photography.
Wunderbar is “a dynamic new festival of contemporary performances, visual art, and extraordinary happenings for North East England that places the audience at the heart of the experience”.
Artist Rona Smith, public art consultant Vivien Lovell and architect Soraya Khan discuss the development of Rona’s ambitious North Elevation work which was permanently installed at Lumen United Reform Church last year.
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
Responding to the gap in intelligence about artists and their practice, AIR: Artists’ Interaction and Representation has been conducting a series of research projects with the aim of informing cultural advocacy and policy-making.
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Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.
It’s Hard To Make a Stand by Steve Bishop
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
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