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June 2012
Special issue: the last a-n Magazine. Then & Now features on Professional practice, Collaboration and Artist-led activity highlight a-n's enduring concerns and wealth of intelligence in our archive; interview with Mag coordinator Chris Brown; Kevin Hunt selects reviews from Glasgow International; in 'Celebrating a-n's achievements' collaborators and contributors with testimonials of what a-n means to them; plus a PDF version of the first ever a-n Magazine from September 1980.
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Editorial
Editorial
"AN will be an open line communication shared by all interested parties. It has not the resources nor the wish to be a one-way information service. It will be a clearing house for practical information and a means of raising issues significant to visual artists. The format is not fixed and will adapt and change according to the response and opinions of artists." So wrote founder Richard Padwick in the first ever issue, published in September 1980, price 35p. Subscribers read on…
Editorial, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Special thanks
Although very many individuals now and in the past have given their best to or contributed hugely to a-n Magazine, with this the very last issue, I'd like to extend some special thanks: firstly to Gillian Nicol who started with the magazine way back… Subscribers read on…
Editorial, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Features
Art in unconventional settings
A round-up of projects that explore approaches to making and siting art beyond conventional white cube spaces - from travelling fairgrounds and riverboat processions to site-responsive installations and public sculpture. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Celebrating a-n's achievements
We're proud of what a-n Magazine has achieved over its thirty-two years. On the occasion of the last print edition we invited many of our collaborators and contributors to help us celebrate and mark this moment by giving us a 'few words' - a short testimonial of what a-n means to them. Here, they reflect on our significant role for artists and on the value of a-n Magazine, publications or initiatives. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Postgraduate focus
Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Reviews: June 2012
Critical commentary and contextualisation of contemporary art exhibitions and events across the UK and beyond. Read, comment and post your own reviews at www.a-n.co.uk/interface. This month Kevin Hunt goes to Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (GI) and selects reviews from Interface and beyond, giving a taster of the great things going on in the city and across Scotland. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Rewards and challenges
Artist S Mark Gubb talks to Magazine Coordinator Chris Brown as he prepares the last ever issue of a-n Magazine. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Then & Now: Artist-led
Highlighting a-n's long-running interests and the wealth of historical knowledge held in our archive. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
Then & Now: Collaboration
Collaboration has long been explored at a-n through diverse features and series exploring different aspects to this key mode of working in the arts. Here, Chris Fremantle offers his reflections on collaboration, having mined a-n’s archive of Collaborative relationships articles. Alongside this, a feature from May 1998, ‘Collaborations: definitions and dialogues’, showing artists’ perspectives at that time. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk May 2012
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