Current and archived a-n publications
Lively, topical news, reviews, features and debate around the environments for visual arts practice.
This month in arts funding news Dany Louise reports on how ACE funding cuts are impacting on small-scale production and artist-centred organisations; and we re-publish Variant's intelligent commentary on Creative Scotland's vision; in Reviews Maria Fusco selects texts by Liz Buckley, Anneka French, Gabrielle Hoad, Rachel Murray and Travis Riley; Collaborative relationships uncovers Motion Disabled, a digital exploration of the bodies of people who are physically different; Big picture is by Lilah Fowler; and in Debate Cara Courage examines the gender imbalance in the arts workforce and asks if it's really down to women wanting to 'have it all'? Read on…
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Charlie Pulford on the meanings of word and text. Jane Watt on the time-lapse between a public artwork's inception and realistaion. Decibel Award prizewinners announced, plus reviews of photo-realist painting and politically challenging work - and just how many polar bears are there in Bristol? Read on…
Andrew McDonald escapes through art. Ceramicist Andrew Wicks on designing and producing. Feature on glass artist Keiko Mukaide. Paul Glinkowski finds an academic model in Oxford. Artist-run initiatives at Glasgow Art Fair covered plus Lesley Miller writes about artists' collaborations from UK and Japan. Read on…
Contemporary approaches to the creation of public monuments, China Changchun Sculpture conference and Montreal's artist run sector feature. Nicola Malkin on pushing the boundaries of popular form and function in ceramics. Contemporary painters working in Britain reviewed at John Hansard Gallery, sculpture by Elizabeth Price at Jerwood Space. Read on…
What do artists and curators want from each other? Jeremy Akerman finds the answers, design curator Rachael Barraclough explains why she loves her job. Wellcome Trust publication reviewed and Michelle Lord explores interior spaces. Amsterdam Tactical media festival asks how media savvy we really are. Read on…
Francis Upritchard shares her dreams and Sam Atkins is mesmerised by pattern. Kathleen Forde reports from Peruvian electronica festival plus artists' status in France examined. Jane Watt looks at professional development for artists working in public domain. Diana Yeh on art and anthropology and Rohini Malik Okon on Faisal Abdu'Allah. Read on…
Brigid Howarth asks what makes art buyers tick; the notion of collaborative practice is unpicked. Artist initiated festival in Jerusalem, environmental aesthetics conference and Wellcome Trust residency featured. Influential Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and leading African contemporary artist El Anatsui in Previews. Read on…
Artists and architects collaborate in Jane Watt's third 'Navigating places' article. Photography festival reviewed, Skowhegan residency profiled. Art and nature in the Netherlands contrtasts with Media arts; Beverley Hood reports on Siggraph conference and PVA MediaLab profiled. Yara El Sherbini tells us what she does. Read on…
Reports from 6th Sharjah Biennial and Surface Design conference. Ben Coode-Adams talks to Rob Kesseler and NESTA about symbiotic relationships and Jen Southern and Jen Hamilton discuss their collaboration. Profile of The Showroom's director, Kirsty Ogg. Damien Robinson and Ian Dawson write about their practices. Read on…
'Navigating Places' part two - a redefinition of artists working in the public realm; 'Going it Alone' discusses working outside commercial gallery systems. ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Germany profiled; Christine Borland and site-specific works at National Botanic Garden of Wales reviewed. Read on…
a-n Magazine gets a makeover; Franko B treats the body as a canvas. Looking beyond the Venice Biennale's title. Adèle Prince, Marion Coutts and this year's degree shows reviewed. The first in a new series on artists and arts professionals looks at curating contemporary craft. Read on…
Chloe Steel researches China's art scene and S Mark Gubb on how to make friends and influence people. Gillian Nicol explores expectations of artist-run projects and Zoe Childerley takes part in Jamaica-East Midlands exchange. Jane Watt explores artists' work in the public domain through temporary commissions sited along Hull's river valley. Read on…
Wales and Scotland's first separate presentations at Venice Biennial previewed. Report from The Annual American College Arts Association Conference in New York. Chad McCail discusses his residency at Baltic. Reviews include Beck's Futures and artist interventions at new Norfolk and Norwich Millennium library. Read on…