ISIS Arts in Newcastle upon Tyne has launched Corners Live, a new digital platform for networked engagement with contemporary art. Richard Taylor unpicks how it plans to grow and make artworks thrive.
The Argentinian artist best known for his large-scale concrete and clay sculptures has won the international art prize sponsored by fine art paper manufacturer Canson.
Art Noise is a dynamic, brand new resource hub. The project, established in 2014, is focused on the visual culture and art education of South East Artist community. It is about promoting and developing opportunities for international students and young artists based in Brighton.
Originally published on The Conversation, Russell Williams of University of London Institute in Paris explores France’s paradoxical relationship with controversial artworks, following the recent vandalism of Anish Kapoor’s installation at Versailles.
Sally Lee becomes new executive director of regional branch of Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des artistes Canadiens.
A European Commission study examining different national mechanisms of artists’ pay across Europe is inviting photographers, illustrators and designers to complete an online survey about how they are remunerated.
Iranian artist Atena Farghadani has been sentenced by a court in Tehran for a cartoon depicting the country’s politicians as monkeys, cows and goats – Amnesty International is calling for her release.
Multi-award winning British novelist David Mitchell has been named as the second writer to take part in artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project in Norway.
Artist and curator Gaynor O’Flynn’s Artists for Nepal campaign is raising funds to help victims of the recent earthquakes in Himalayan region.
Member of group researching working conditions at site of new Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi refused entry to country to UAE.
There are 89 official national pavilions at the 56th Venice Biennale, situated in the Giardini, Arsenale and venues across the city. On the eve of the Biennale’s three-day preview prior to it opening to the public on 9 May, Pippa Koszerek picks ten countries you really should visit.
In the lead up to artist-led Transition Gallery’s latest exhibition, which features works by six recent British School at Rome residency holders, we speak to artist and curator Cathy Lomax about her reasons for reconnecting with fellow residency holders, and to Archie Franks and Ursula Burke about the impact the residencies had on their practice.
Nominations are now open for Artes Mundi 7, the Cardiff-based international art prize and exhibition which this year was won by Chicago artist Theaster Gates.
A recent summit at Project Ability in Glasgow brought together support studios and learning disability artists from around the world for three days of art making, discussion and sharing of ideas. Emmie McKay reports on a conference with a difference that also included a residency by the artist Tanya Raabe-Webber.
The curator of the 56th Venice Biennale has revealed the 136-strong list of participating artists for the International Exhibition, including works by many high-profile names such as Steve McQueen, Jeremy Deller and Oscar Murillo.
ISIS Arts in Newcastle has just launched Corners, a major European-wide collaborative residency and exhibition programme that will see 30 artists and producers arrive in the North East of England during March.
Graham Fagen, the Glasgow-based artist representing Scotland at this year’s Venice Biennale, has revealed details of his Scotland + Venice exhibition.
As International Women’s Day 2015 approaches, we highlight talks, events and performances taking place through the UK in the days preceding and on Sunday 8 March.
A three-year agreement between artists’ groups CARFAC and RAAV and the National Gallery of Canada has secured guaranteed fees for artists in Canada.
To mark International Women’s Day, New York’s Art+Feminism is organising its second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, with events happening internationally including in the UK.
A new YouTube video from the street artist Banksy shows a series of new works in bomb-damaged Gaza.
Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who was the target of a terrorist attack in Copenhagen on Saturday, has been speaking about the incident.
The winner of the sixth Artes Mundi prize is the American artist Theaster Gates.
The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has been found guilty of plagiarism by a court in Antwerp after using a photograph of a right-wing politician as inspiration for a painting.
Twitter campaign defending free speech and expressing solidarity with murdered journalists at Charlie Hebdo grows, as Parisians plan rally and Salman Rushdie issues statement of support.
