Debate
If you were the Arts Council, how would you do it?
If you were the Arts Council, how would you do it?
Martine Rouleau wonders what or who is susceptible to change the market. Can artists adapt it to their own expectations and should the demands of the market influence artists work?
This months a-n Collection: Trade-off explores the markets for art in the UK drawing on intelligence gathered at the recent series of NAN Roadshows1.
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
Charlie Foxs critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
Ken Pratt gives an overview of the international art market from a curators point of view.
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
Although it is sometimes considered that having an individual studio space is the aspiration of artists, for those who need to use expensive specialist equipment for a limited or specific period, gaining access to a workshop facility with technical support to hand is sometimes the better option.
Amazed at the power of coincidence, I read with particular interest your On the cover piece about Kerry Harker and in particular the fine art vs applied art debate.
Zoo Art Fair has announced its list of exhibitors for the 2007 event, running 12-15 October.
Artists and artists support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
One of the UKs longest running competitions, The Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition remains the largest art prize dedicated to the medium of watercolour.
Congratulations to New Work Network, that celebrates ten years as one of the UKs leading arts networking organisations.
Established in 1986 in Manchester, Chinese Arts Centre celebrates its twenty-first birthday this year.
In response to artists own needs for greater engagement with arts interested audiences whether for selling or conversational purposes many artists cluster together to create open studio events.
Michele Angelo Petrone, who died in June, transformed the lives of countless cancer patients and their carers by showing how painting could be used to express their fears about illness and death.
By popular request Pensions for artists is running more seminars this autumn.
Twenty-eight artists feature in this major international exhibition of contemporary glass.
With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd Sojourn was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.
As children and young people are high on the national agenda with a host of new policies and initiatives addressing young peoples services, education and the arts, envision and enquire are hosting additional briefing days in September aimed at gallery and museum educators, artists and others working with these groups.
Paul Stanley and Rachel Cattle in conversation about what defines success.
Contents include: Letters on ACE cuts to pay for the 2012 Olympics, plus ACE response to diversity issues raised in Sonya Dyer’s Research paper: ‘Boxed in’. Building a rice pavilion for Brighton and eating hotdogs in Newcastle upon Tyne, plus […]
Kerry Harker, Narcissist, T-shirt with vinyl lettering, unlimited edition multiple. Photo: Cathal Carey
A Demos report, published ahead of a Green Paper on the Creative Economy, warns that the Government is confused about how to support the creative industries.
The government has recently withdrawn a substantial amount of funding from Arts Council England to pay for the 2012 Olympic Games.