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Lively, topical news, reviews, features and debate around the environments for visual arts practice.

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October 2007

Crafts strategy examined plus Focus on rural arts initiatives. Alex Hartley's photographs draw attention to potential for architecture. Jerwood shortlist: drawings by Kerry Phippen, Adam Sunderland and Holly Atrum. New a-n+AIR Public and products liability insurance for AIR members, plus Interface site launched.  Read on…

September 2007

'Making Artists Visible' focuses on open studio events while in 'Workspace for Artists' studios and workshops are in the spotlight. In reviews Alex Hetherington at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Dr Stephen Riley reflects on insightful videos by Thust and Raban in the exhibition 'North and South'.  Read on…

August 2007

Letters on ACE cuts to pay for the 2012 Olympics, plus ACE response to diversity issues raised in Sonya Dyer's Research paper: 'Boxed in'. Building a rice pavilion for Brighton and eating hotdogs in Newcastle upon Tyne, plus Jerwood Applied Arts Prize winners announced and moving images at the Nunnery Gallery.  Read on…

July 2007

Manick Govinda calls for action against ACE's cuts to Grants for the Arts. Extracts from Margareta Kern's blog on Projects unedited. Reviews from Oxford, Liverpool, Leeds and London. Jo Wilson on the built environment and public art, plus news from The Showroom’s annual conference.  Read on…

June 2007

European collaboration and cultural diversity: in news a conference in Estonia, commissions for Subdoh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and comment on the 8th Sharjah Biennial. Simon Zimmerman asks if you can afford not to visit a new website on pensions for artists.  Read on…

May 2007

Istanbul and Bucharest Biennials. Call for re-appraisal of proposed Culture (Scotland) Bill, the cultural diversity debate revitalised by Richard Hylton's new book and family values re-framed in the 'Mum and Dad Show' – but what connects TV's 'Family Fortunes' with the art market?  Read on…

April 2007

Should artists’ put life on hold to take up residencies abroad? Low stipends and paying the rent discussed. Advice on preparing grant applications and using The artists’ contracts toolkit online. Reviews from Jerwood Space and Elastic in London, Surface Gallery in Nottingham, Glasgow’s Mary Mary and Plymouth Arts Centre.  Read on…

March 2007

Coverage of Scottish Executive Culture Bill questions lack of recognition for the creative individual. In extracts from her Berlin blog C Morey de Morand writes about everyday experiences of a residency. Work by Tom Neill and Brian Catling in review of Fresh festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell.  Read on…

February 2007

Artists find "a public space for experimentation" at Site Gallery and David Sherry makes Raymond Watson laugh. Ben Kelly wins the Football Art Prize and Paul Lewthwaite recalls a residency in a former sardine factory in Norway. Middlesbrough's Mima opens its doors as Hull Art Lab closes.  Read on…

January 2007

Ian W S Hunter discusses art world engagement with trades unions and questions assumption that artists have in-built social compass. Chinese Live Art at Vital 06, sound works in Nottingham and interventions in Bournemouth library reviewed plus Neil Mulholland reads Free Association. NAN Advisory Group members introduced.  Read on…

December 2006

Round up of awards news with Jerwood Applied Arts short-list and Paul Hamlyn award winners. Slavka Sverakova on Dark Noise including work by Allan Hughes and Susan MacWilliam. Jem Finer, winner of PRS Foundation New Music Award also features.  Read on…

November 2006

Littoral helps save Schwitters' Merzbarn for the nation, Michael Cousin introduces International residencies focus and Steve Dutton examines curatorial internationalism. 'No place like home' at Beacon and the damage caused by media controversy – while a new site-specific installation is vandalised in Nottingham.  Read on…

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