International glass artists from as far afield as the USA, Australia, Prague, Venice and Denmark will converge on Stourbridge – Britain’s historical centre of the glass industry – in August for the second International Festival of Glass.
Arts Council England cuts clients whilst remaining “brave and radical”.
The latest in a number of projects from UK cities that focus attention on the place as a ‘cultural centre’, Situation Leeds runs 16-29 May. This approach mirrors the expanding international biennial circuit; every city must have its arts festival […]
Hilary Thorn on a discussion event held at Static Gallery, as part of the NAN Artists’ research trip to Liverpool Biennial, which looked at the verbal languages through which art is explored.
Liverpool Biennial, 18–26 September
The third Liverpool biennial launches on 18 September as a UK and international festival of contemporary art. Delivered through a partnership between Tate Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Bluecoat Art Centre and FACT, it also encompasses exhibitions and off–site projects across […]
There are things I want to touch or hold that lie beyond my reach, and ways to bring them closer.
Jean Grant believes in “Art Action Change
The Brighton Photo Biennale 2003, the new major event in the photography calendar, kicked off in October. Combining exhibitions, commissions and events, the biennale permeates across traditional gallery spaces as well as appropriating Brighton Parish Church as a site for […]
Planning is now underway for the third Liverpool Biennial in 2004, a foreground for the City of Culture programme in 2008. For the 2002 event, over 180,000 visits were recorded at the UK’s only biennial of contemporary visual art and […]
Pete Clarke looks back at how the 1999 Biennial in Liverpool, flaws and all, raised some interesting questions that resulted in a new direction for the 2002 event and the shape of things to come.
