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.
Artist Neil Armstrong and pharmaceuticals company Specials Clinical Manufacturing talk about working towards a special commission in the latest of our collaborative relationships series.
Artists talking hosts blogs from artists engaged in a wide range of practices and at all stages of their careers.
In this month’s round-up we profile six open studio events.
The largest UK annual event of its kind, Hereford Photography Festival celebrates its 18th year in 2008.
Berlin plays host to two events that utilise openness as a means of operation; naturally resulting in two distinctly different outcomes.
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.
Asia’s most important international art fair, Art Dubai held in March reported a successful second year in terms of both sales and attendance.
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.
The Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics first appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood, yet despite once suggesting that if he failed as a filmmaker he could always set up a real life Institute, its 21st Century emergence is not his own doing.
Introduction to Artists’ strategies and self-management
A look at the Glasgow international festival, Asian art triennial and Bucharest Biennale 3.
Information on the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for students.
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today.
With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd ‘Sojourn’ was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.
‘Heroes in Transition’ at Nottingham’s Angel Row Gallery brings some of Croatia’s best new artists to the UK for the first time.
Shisha will present new site-specific events for Manchester International Festival’s Manchester Firsts, through commissions for international artists Subodh Gupta and Rashid Rana.
As I was chaperoned around the 8th Sharjah Biennial: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, the Emirate reminded me of Phoenix Arizona, but instead of US patriotism pervading, Islam sits relaxingly alongside the logos of KFC, Dunkin’ Donuts, Burger King, Pizza Hut, shopping malls and building construction.
Various locations, Birmingham
31 March – 15 April
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain will represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art.
International Project Space, Birmingham
16 November – 16 December
The 2006 Art Forum Berlin – the renowned international trade fair for contemporary art organised by Messe Berlin GmbH in cooperation with an international art gallery advisory board – runs 30 September to 4 October 2006.
