The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
“Self-critical, vital and engaging,” say the judges of this year’s John Moores Prize on the state of contemporary painting in Britain.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
The seventh Whitstable Biennale opened on Saturday with a variety of one-off performances and a series of new film commissions. Dany Louise reports from the small fishing town on the Kent coast.
The 7th Whitstable Biennale launches this weekend with a programme of performances, moving image, talks by and on the sea – and its own app.
Full programme details for the 7th Whitstable Biennale, featuring over 30 artists, have been announced.
This week (11-17 April), we’re getting agitated in Limerick with EVA International, celebrating Van Gogh at a new gallery in Arles, and visiting Cologne for the 46th edition of the world’s oldest art fair.
The full programme for Liverpool Biennial 2014 has been announced and includes works by Sharon Lockhart, Will Holder and Jef Cornelis, and will open with the performance of a new composition by Michael Nyman commemorating the Hillsborough disaster.
New Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory has stamped her personality on the festival’s programme, but the sixth edition of this biennial with a difference still retains its unique character and sense of place.
This week (4-10 April) we take a trip to the 12th Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, worry about modern living in Pinheiros, Brazil, and ponder the impact of digitalisation in Düsseldorf.
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
The lead up to the 19th Sydney Biennale has been marked by artists’ protests over the business activities of its founding sponsor, eventually leading to the Biennale severing links with its funder of 40 years. Now, with the Biennale open to the public and all but two of the original artists taking part, Moira Jeffrey considers the art, the context and the quiet steeliness of its curator.
As economic sanctions bite and international condemnation continues over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Manifesta 10 announces its programme and its curator declares that the art must go on in St Petersburg.
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen’s solo presentation, commissioned and curated by Arbroath’s Hospitalfield Arts, will represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
“A formidably inventive sculptor whose work remains urgent,” say Selection Committee as Sarah Lucas is chosen to represent Britain at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
The Welcome To Iraq exhibition, one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, has been relocated to South London Gallery.
After ongoing protests from participating artists, including the withdrawal of nine, the board of the Sydney Biennale has announced that it is severing its links with founding sponsor Transfield.
Throughout March, venues across the North-East are hosting exhibitions, film screenings and live performances as part of the biennial AV Festival, which this year is themed around the idea of ‘extraction’. We report from the opening weekend and take in some of the key shows in Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
Following the news last week that five artists had withdrawn from the Sydney Biennale in protest at the activities of its sponsor, Transfield, another four artists have now announced their withdrawal.
Five artists have announced their withdrawal from the 19th Sydney Biennale in protest at founding sponsor Transfield’s role in the mandatory detention of asylum seekers.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
The Nigerian curator and writer Okwui Enwezor has been announced as the Director of the 56th International Art Exhibition.
Artists Louisa Martin and Rachel Reupke have been announced winners of the Whitstable Biennale 2014 Open Submission Award.
For the seven days from 22-28 November, our international ramblings take us to Haiti, New Zealand, Norway and Germany.
