Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
Our guide to all the best degree shows, 2008 Degrees with this issue, features practice updates from last year’s student bloggers1 revealing learning curves, perseverance and collaborative ventures.
Kristina Johansen reports on her multiple visits to Glasgow International 2008.
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices.
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
I am currently undertaking a research project called ‘Situating everyday creativity in Liverpool 2008’.
I am writing to lend support to the ideas expressed in the letter How do other artists feel about unpaid public art competitions? (a-n Magazine, April).
I would like to add these comments to the discussion on unpaid public art competitions (a-n Magazine, April).
If you’re a small-scale voluntary organisation with an income of under £10,000 a year, you entitled to get free information from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
Asia’s most important international art fair, Art Dubai held in March reported a successful second year in terms of both sales and attendance.
Research in bite-sized pieces.
This month’s movers in the art world.
According to London – A Cultural Audit, the first quantitative comparison of London’s cultural environment with major world cities New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai, London is leading the way internationally.
The Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the UK, has received $415,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support research programmes in the history of British art and culture.
The British Council’s proposed major restructure, much criticised by leading art world figures earlier in the year, has been redrafted.
The Arts Council Northern Ireland has fulfilled its pledge to plough the hard-won uplift of £1.7m it secured straight back into the arts in Northern Ireland.
Star and Dove contemporary artspace launches in May in Bristol in a former skittle alley, in one of Bristol’s more bohemian communities.
The Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics first appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood, yet despite once suggesting that if he failed as a filmmaker he could always set up a real life Institute, its 21st Century emergence is not his own doing.
Sixteen professional artists from across the arts disciplines received a Creative Wales Award from The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) in March.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Creative ambition 2 and ixia.
As a precursor to the Waterfront Public Art Strategy, Halton Borough Council commissioned artists’ residencies within the Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone in 2007.
Highlights from Artists talking and beyond.
Exploration of the subtlety and ingenuity required to turn waste and found items into beautiful objects is highlighted in a new show at Devon Guild’s gallery.
For the past fourteen years, English Heritage and Arts Council England have been funding an important opportunity in the visual arts.
With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this […]
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