The Collecting Live Art symposium that launched independent curatorial initiative Collecting Live Art addressed key issues surrounding the collection, sustainability and legacy of live art.
The first ever comprehensive plan for government support for the creative industries was published in February.
The Art and Design Index to Theses.
“The vague meanderings and fly-blown world of kitsch post modernism seem to have lost their ways..
The media is awash with commentary about ‘climate change’, a serious issue that of course affects every one of us.
We are self-employed sculptors with wide experience making artworks for the public realm.
Contents include: AIR Artist’s advisory group response to McMaster review. Rachel Lois Clapham sees parallels between Aaron Head’s exhibition and works by Helen Chadwick, Bob and Roberta Smith and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Visual arts funding news from England, Scotland and Wales. […]
This month’s Research papers: Art work in 2007 draws on intelligence held within the data researched and published continuously by a-n for our jobs and opportunities.
Are you thinking of applying for a grant or award? Over £2.3m was openly offered in these categories through a-n’s Jobs and opportunities last year. As it’s a highly competitive activity, we’ve compiled this guide to making applications, including some ‘top tips’ from a range of experienced artists, curators, and arts professionals…
Jennifer Taylor, Untitled Installation, exhibited at Flowers East in the exhibition ‘Says the Junk in the Yard’, 2007. Courtesy: the Artist and David Roberts.
Art moves news in March.
News from Nottingham’s ongoing research collaboration, looking at art and The Big Track.
Gallery closure news in March.
News of John Newling’s residency and The Art House opening.
A look at the Glasgow international festival, Asian art triennial and Bucharest Biennale 3.
A look at the winners of recent competitions and prizes.
Information on the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for students.
An overview of funding news for England, Wales and Scotland.
Winners of the Craft Council’s new Spark Plug Awards announced.
Contents include: New Snapshot section: Chris Brown with what’s on in February. Rose Rose debates local vs global arts practice. The Northern Art Prize and Art Basel Miami Beach reviewed. This year’s most significant open exhibitions and prizes profiled plus […]
Colin Rose, Rain, stainless steel, water, Millennium Square, Sheffield, 2006. Commissioned by: Sheffield City Council as part of the ‘Heart of the City’ regeneration scheme
“It is also time to trust our artists and our organisations to do what they do best – to create the most excellent work they can – and to strive for what is new and exciting, rather than what is […]
Critical attitudes on how art practice is dividing or uniting local, international and global practices has been alluded to since the beginnings of modernism; in 2008 these issues remain at the forefront of response to post-modern visual culture.
The UK boasts literally hundreds of visual arts competitions annually. Here, we look at some of the most significant opens and prizes on offer this year.
Key recommendations in Brian McMaster’s review of public arts, launched in January, are that there should be at least two artists on the Boards of arts organisations and that peer review should underpin decisions about arts funding.
