As conflict and war continues across the world, artists are exploring ways to cut through the mainstream news narrative in order to highlight the ongoing refugee crisis. Lydia Ashman looks at current projects, artworks, and exhibitions that are tackling this urgent humanitarian and political issue.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Christie’s challenges French court ruling over paying artists’ resale rights; London’s Garden Bridge project slammed as ‘poor value for money’ in latest report.
The controversy over the Dana Schutz painting, Open Casket, has prompted protests, a call for the work to be destroyed and much anger and debate. Chris Sharratt reports.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Tate St Ives reopens following £20 million refurbishment and Beijing artists’ studios demolished.
LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s anti-Trump artwork, HeWillNotDivide.Us, has been closed down after just one day in Liverpool, its fourth site since launching in New York on Donald Trump’s inauguration day. Laura Harris argues that the controversial work’s fate embodies the struggle facing left-wing political artists.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: squatters turn Manchester’s former Cornerhouse cinema into arts space, plus artists and critics demand Whitney Biennial removes Dana Schutz painting.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: first new gallery space in 26 years created at the National Gallery in London, police raid artist’s Berlin studio and seize artwork, Dalston gallery LD50 closes after protests.
Arts Council England and Arts Council Korea have announced a cultural exchange partnership to fund 21 performing and visual arts projects in South Korea and England, including an artists’ residency programme.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Court rules Jeff Koons plagiarised French photographer for Naked sculpture, and street artist Plastic Jesus installs works across the US in response to Trump’s revised executive order on immigration.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: high-profile artists support charity art auction for children in hospices, plus artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur to run for mayor of Detroit.
Four artists each receive £25,000 to create new work and a £5,000 artist fee, plus a 13-week exhibition at Baltic, opening summer 2017.
35 artists from 19 countries will take part in the once-a-decade sculpture festival in the German city of Münster, with additional partner events in the nearby city of Marl taking place for the first time.
The Brexit vote and Trump’s election polarised debate on immigration, censorship and democracy. But while artists have overwhelmingly supported Remain, artist and writer Sarah Peace argues that it’s time to stop sneering at Brexiteers and instead focus on providing a cohesive and compelling case for a thriving creative sector in post-Brexit Britain.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: bid to catalogue ‘secret’ collection of tax-exempt artworks, French artist to entomb himself in rock, and Edinburgh Fringe venue ditches controversial digital event.
As Clore Visual Artist Fellow Maurice Carlin sets off on the second leg of his a-n supported research trip, we look back at his first week of posts on a-n’s Instagram, exploring Hong Kong’s visual art scene.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Pieter Brueghel the Younger painting is authenticated and new cultural plan for New York City faces objections from artists.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: National Gallery’s bid to save £30m Pontormo painting rejected due to Sterling slump.
The ‘Viva Arte Viva’ international exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature 120 artists from 51 countries.
Clore Visual Artist Fellow Maurice Carlin is taking over the a-n Instagram for the next two weeks as he travels to China and India to explore the markets and infrastructures of two very distinct art ecologies.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: David Hockney redesigns the Sun’s logo, German Cultural Council blasts Trump’s travel ban and 19th-century female artist finally given credit for works attributed to men.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Alasdair Gray to exhibit at Glasgow Library, Christo cancels project in protest against Trump, and Saatchi gallery to exhibit selfies.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: $1 million raised to create protest art for inauguration day, V&A issue statement confirming new director Tristram Hunt is committed to free entry, and artist Tania Bruguera is detained in Cuba again.
As Washington DC prepares for the 20 January presidential inauguration and the rest of the world is gripped/appalled by the latest predictably narcissistic Donald Trump Twitter outburst, London-based artist Sonya Dyer – who was on a residency in Nebraska during the election – reflects on her US experience and considers what the new era means for art and artists.
