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Artes Mundi 6 opens for nominations
Artes Mundi, the Cardiff-based biennial international art award with a top prize of £40,000, is open for nominations for the 2014 edition.
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Venice Biennale: a selective process
The Venice Biennale is the world’s biggest and most important international art event. But how do the exhibiting artists get chosen to represent their country at the national pavilions or collateral exhibitions and how does the process differ from one country to the next? We take a look and find that, although in differing forms, the open call is becoming increasingly popular.
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Artist-led spaces: an open discussion in Beijing
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
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Venice Biennale artists announced
UK’s Tacita Dean, Helen Marten, Roger Hiorns and Cathy Wilkes amongst artists selected for 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice.
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Manifesta 10: State Hermitage Museum announced as 2014 host
The State Hermitage Museum in the city of St Petersburg has been announced as the host of Manifesta 10.
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How the economy made losers of us all
An ambitious new exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh, and CCA, Glasgow explores the state of Europe’s economy today and the profound changes that have impacted on us all since the banking crisis of 2008. We talk to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd about this landmark show.
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Winner of new international curator competition announced
Alejandra Labastida of Mexico City has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Akbank Sanat International Curator Competition.
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Institutions by Artists – the Convention
Institutions by Artists international conference Vancouver, Canada will evaluate the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run initiatives.
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WEYA is here
World Event Young Artists brings together 1,000 artists from 100 nations for a 10 day festival that opens in Nottingham today. We profile some of festival’s visual arts highlights.
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Taylor Wessing Prize shortlist unveiled
Four photographers have been shortlisted for this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, organised by The National Portrait Gallery.
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Edinburgh International Culture Summit
Culture Ministers, festival directors and artists will be discussing the international role of culture during a two-day summit at the Scottish Parliament.
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International relations
Supporting the international activities of artists and arts organisations is a key function for many national arts funding agencies. In order to investigate this area of arts policy and identify key issues affecting the programs and priorities of such agencies, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) conducted a worldwide survey in English, French and Spanish, the results of which have been analysed and supplemented by other research and presented in a report.
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Stuart Mayes
Following a residency in Sweden, London-based artist and blogger Stuart Mayes relocated to Stockholm. Here, he talks to Andrew Bryant about this move, working intuitively and developing confidence in his practice.
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Campaign against border controls
Rules designed to prevent illegal immigration have denied entry to the UK by international artists and performers, a Manifesto Club report says.
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Glittering prizes (and awards)
Contemporary Art Society’s latest initiative, the Annual Award for Museums, will provide
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Supermarket
Pamela Wells and Alicja Rogalska report back from Supermarket – an artist-run international art fair in Stockholm. They talk about why their own artist association Laundry attended the event, meet representatives from a vibrant artist-run culture in Sweden and beyond, and offer a sample of some of the organisations who attended.
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Curator’s forum
Launched in October, the International Curators’ Forum website supports its aim to provide an open conceptual network around emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar.
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The specials project
Artist Neil Armstrong and pharmaceuticals company Specials Clinical Manufacturing talk about working towards a special commission in the latest of our collaborative relationships series.
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Artists talking – internationally
Artists talking hosts blogs from artists engaged in a wide range of practices and at all stages of their careers.
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Inside the studio
In this month’s round-up we profile six open studio events.
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Photo festival
The largest UK annual event of its kind, Hereford Photography Festival celebrates its 18th year in 2008.
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Berlin initiatives
Berlin plays host to two events that utilise openness as a means of operation; naturally resulting in two distinctly different outcomes.
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Art in Basel
The first week in June will see around 60,000 artists, collectors, gallerists, curators, and art enthusiasts from across the globe flock to the Swiss town of Basel for the 39th edition of Art Basel.
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Art Dubai result
Asia’s most important international art fair, Art Dubai held in March reported a successful second year in terms of both sales and attendance.
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Centre for British art
The Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the UK, has received $415,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support research programmes in the history of British art and culture.