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.
Events in September and October.
This double issue of a-n Magazine profiles the work of two artists who have received a total of
Limoncello, London
7-21 May
Project Space Leeds, Leeds
25 March – 27 June
Prizes and awards taking place over the summer months.
Arts Council England’s ten-year visual arts plan turned a corner in April when a-n became aware of a new pilot scheme designed to create ‘a national network for a stronger visual arts’.
Government plans to create between five and ten thousand new jobs for young people who will be paid the minimum wage were announced in May by the then Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and outgoing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
Art in Action (16-19 July) create a relaxed and friendly environment where artists and craftspeople can demonstrate and discuss their techniques with the public.
This month’s round-up.
Having celebrated its fortieth birthday in 2008, CARFAC is keen to rebuild ties with the UK.
As a response to this year’s Amsterdam Art Fair, the Unfair Project was set up by the ParachutArtists Foundation to explore the phenomenon of the contemporary art fair and art economy.
A unique project for artists, creative thinkers and cultural practitioners, Arts Reverie is located in the heart of a traditional pol (neighbourhood) in the historic city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
AIR Advisory Group members David Cotterrell and Erika Tan are amongst twenty-one artists selected to participate in a new pilot cultural leadership programme.
The London Group is a community of nearly 100 visual artists, with a shared commitment to studio practice and exhibiting their work.
A new Artists Programme launched in June as part of the development of the Barking Creative Quarter within the Thames Gateway.
From the 1930s to early 2000, The Fishmarket served as a market hub for Northampton
London’s photography scene just got a whole lot richer thanks to the arrival of Diemar/Noble, a new commercial gallery situated in the heart of the West End.
This month’s art world movers.
AA2A has secured a further two years’ funding from Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts lottery fund.
Nina Murdoch’s Rockingham Row.
The most versatile of artforms, art in the public realm includes permanent works as well as temporary installations and architectural manifestations. The appetite for such work has been enhanced through the Big Art Project that enabled communities themselves to make the running for art projects and nurtured their ambitions and narratives over four years. A record one million viewers were attracted to the resulting Channel 4 programmes broadcast in May.
Contents include: Support schemes for artists, art in the public realm, slack spaces. Big picture features Nina Murdoch. Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 6.2 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
Let me start by offering my sincere apologies to Frances Williams for referring to her as both Frances and Sally in the text.
Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm relate the project by public works and myvillages.org, commissioned as part of Radar’s ‘Group Process’ programme.
