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Alice Bradshaw and Matthew Geraghty discuss Temporary Art Space’s six-month tenancy in the council-run Piece Hall in Halifax.
Selected round-up of forthcoming exhibitions and events from the world of new media arts and imaging.
This month’s round-up.
To celebrate its ten-year anniversary The Multiple Store has announced a new six-month residency at Westbrook Gallery, London.
“I want the experience of art to transport me, move me, make me feel what it describes,” remarks Nan Goldin.
Seizure by Roger Hiorns.
Commissioned by Arts Council England to inform thinking about the recession’s impact on employment in the arts and culture, Do It Yourself: Cultural and Creative Self-Employment in Hard Times addresses opportunities for young self-employed creatives and potential implications of the government’s Future Jobs Fund.
Artists in their hundreds across the US responded to a request on the New York Times website asking them how the economy is affecting their lives and work.
Arts Council England convened a meeting between regional Turning point groups and national visual arts organisations in July, with representatives from a-n, AIR, Axis, Contemporary Art Society, Engage, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and National Federation of Artists Studios Providers invited to attend.
The latest in a long line of organisational restructuring at Arts Council England is designed both to save overheads and restore the council’s credibility within the sector and politically.
Opportunities abound for involvement in Independent State, an ambitious participatory project sited in Frome.
Ten embroidered wall pieces by textile artist Karina Thompson made for the treatment and consultation rooms in the Centre for Clinical Haematology, University Hospital, Birmingham is the latest commission in the Cure Leukaemia Arts Programme.
Round-up of recent prizes and awards announcements and shortlists.
Triangle Arts trust has appointed curator, writer and Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney David Elliott as Chair, succeeding Robert Loder who will remain a trustee. Arts Council England North East Director Mark Robinson has confirmed he will […]
Lancaster’s Storey Gallery reopened in July following a a-n Magazine September 2009
Linda Florence’s approach combines traditional textiles, science and graphic illustration.
Events in September and October.
Should artists cultivate more self-reflection on the implications of their work for those experiencing it? In this month’s Debate, Nell Munro and Robert Dingwall discuss whether art can retain its power to shock and disturb in ways that university regulators would be unlikely to countenance.
Read more responses to Fiona Flynn’s letter.
I read with interest Fiona Flynn’s ‘Art is not hardware’ article regarding the announcement by the Government towards the ’empty shop’ funding.
One has to take issue with Fiona Flynn regarding her article about retail outlets as art spaces.
The climate today in which artists practice in the UK is being regularly met with new pressures and restrictions.
