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Hull and the 2017 City of Culture legacy: where do local artists go from here?

Writing for a-n News in August 2016, Hull-based artist Paul Collinson called on the City of Culture legacy team to “set foot outside their fortress and talk to those who will be left behind to carry on the good work”. Now, after the city’s high-profile year of cultural activity, he looks back over the year and asks, “Where next?”

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Developing an Appetite: “Stoke is very hungry for art”

Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.

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The Seldom Seen Islands of Barrow route guide
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Art Gene: mapping out Barrow’s past and future

Barrow-in-Furness based Art Gene launches its latest ‘cultural tourism’ project this week – a route guide that uncovers fascinating facts and hidden histories about the area as a way to inform “social rather than economic regeneration”. We find out more from Art Gene co-founder Stuart Bastik.

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Artist as leader: from ‘Visionaire’ to ‘Magpie’

In Joshua Sofaer’s latest Artist as leader interview for a-n, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell’s seven-year tenure as ‘Visionaire’ at AIT software company. Here, Layzell writes about what came next and the continued relevance of his experience in industry a decade on.

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FACT celebrates a Hacky Birthday

Liverpool’s pioneering media arts centre is staging a special birthday event this weekend to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Wood Street building.

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Creating space for dialogue and support

In partnership with ixia, artist Hannah Hull is presenting a series of events in Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham for socially-engaged artists who want to be part of a ‘hyper-local critical support network’.

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Artist proposes a vortex, gets a black hole

Over two years since it was commissioned, Anthony McCall’s contribution to Artists Taking the Lead is yet to materialise. But beyond the obvious issues around public funding and value, what does a project like this say about contemporary art and its relationship to audiences?

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Conference report: Culture in Motion

Rich Hadley reports on the recent Culture in Motion conference in Brussels and reflects on the relationships between artists and their public.

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Surviving in the city

Conjunction 12 is the third edition of Stoke-on-Trent’s contemporary arts biennial. We talk to artist and curator Anna Francis and to Bethan Lloyd Worthington, one of this year’s commissioned artists.

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Wild New Territories

We report from the opening of this ambitious curatorial project, which explores the complex and often problematic relationship between nature and culture.

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A framework for creative exchange

A residency project at Glasgow’s Market Gallery is tackling the weighty subject of community engagement, but with the lighter and insightful touch of an artist’s practice.

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Journey’s end for Nowhereisland

For his Cultural Olympiad commission, Alex Hartley created Nowhereisland and embarked on an epic journey. As that journey draws to an end, we catch up with the artist.

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Countdown to Art Across the City 2012

As media sponsor, a-n is pleased to support Art Across the City 2012, which will see Swansea hosting an exciting programme of new public art commissions this September.

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Sacrilege on tour

Anyone fond of the question ‘but is it art?’ will have a field day if they visit Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege during the Olympics, but they will probably have a bounce on it too.

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