This week we suggest there’s more to the Serpentine’s summer programme than Marina Abramovic’s durational performance, that Mondrian isn’t the only thing to get excited about at Tate Liverpool, and that a chance encounter with eight artists in Middlesbrough is worth planning for.
More support will be directed to the arts outside London but the Culture Minister rejects claims of a regional funding crisis. Liz Hill reports.
A new public realm project by Simon Faithfull will be hiding 500 copies of a limited edition artwork in the Tunbridge Wells branch of Morrisons’ supermarket. We talk to the artist and the curators who commissioned the work.
A continuous 24-hour event taking place this weekend in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will celebrate the launch of new digital art platform The Space.
Three weeks after a devastating fire at its historic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building, Glasgow School of Art’s Fine Art students present a showcase of their work that is both economical and emotionally charged.
The four museum/artist pairings shortlisted for the Contemporary Art Society’s £40,000 Annual Award have been announced.
The recent AD:uk/NCVO conference, Public Services: The Value of Cultural Commissioning, asked important questions about public sector commissioning of artists and arts organisations. Chris Bailey reports from Doncaster and adds a few questions of his own.
Our PICTURED series on visually-rich art books is one year old. To mark the 25th instalment, Tim Clark takes a close look at The Photobook: A History Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger and the latest instalment from the acclaimed series on the history of the photobook.
That felt like the longest work week ever! But finally I have a day off ( sort of) I’ll be heading over to Macclesfield in a couple of hours with the paper boots crammed into boxes to install for the […]
At this stage of the project I can almost bring you up to date with where we are now. I find the detail of editing video quite a painful process as it is so incredibly detailed and repetitive, each minute […]
This week I met with Joanna Brown, one of the members of the Contemporary Art Panel at RAMM (the Royal Albert Memorial Museum) at Exeter. We’d discussed previously how the museum were keen to work with visual artists in interpreting […]
#questions In process. Exploring ways of untesting is for me about blurring the line between the straightforward and counterproductive. There are always questions we find odd, unrelated or predicative of a standard reply. I started taking questions out of their […]
Post 5 Writing up the visits for the blog and for the use of other artists. I have now had 3 of my 1.1’s which I have happened in quite quick succession, therefore, the studio has been in a very […]
Post 6 Francesca Gavin – 21/May/2014 Francesca understood the work and the motivation behind it straight away – making interesting links and picking out associations. In addition, she commented how I am almost drawing with paint, which I completely recognise. […]
Things are appearing in my workspace now. The exhibition is starting to have a physical presence rather than just existing in my head. Plinths have been built, although being me, they weren’t a simple ‘four sides and a top’ plinth. […]
Exciting times are here again! Early on Monday morning I’ll be jumping on the train to get to the NAEA – unfortunately by then the AN website will be closed for update, so I have set up a mirror blog […]
On Saturday the 14th of June I will be embarking on a journey with 12 nervous BA Fine Art students who have acceted the challenge to go into the Wilds of Yellowstone Park to meet and work with fellow Fine […]
Western Wilds – an international book arts collaboration by Wirral Metropolitan College BA Fine Art and Brigham Young University, Utah. Twelve students and staff from Wirral Met are embarking on an adventure to make artists’ books responding to the wilderness […]
The painter George Shaw has been announced as the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist and will work in the gallery over a period of two years.
