Leading ‘contemporary miniaturist’ Imran Qureshi has completed the latest Art on the Underground commission, celebrating 150 years of London’s underground tube network.
The Director of Spike Island, Bristol, reflects on 2013, from the impact of funding cuts to surviving cider-based cocktails at the opening night of the New Contemporaries exhibition.
Is it acceptable to advertise for unpaid, full-time interns? And what is a reasonable level of pay for the directors of a registered charity that receives over £1million a year from Arts Council England? Two stories about the Serpentine Gallery provide food for thought.
Whitechapel Gallery, London
5 December 2013
Currently Reading: Gabriel Orozco – Asterisms (exhibition catalogue). 2012. Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York. Nancy spector (curator)’s essay begins by comparing stroturf Constellation and Standstars – two rubbish collections from a playing field in America and beach in Mexico respectively; […]
‘Heaven and hell’ Portsmouth December 20th The last two months have been a blur – working mostly on the logging but 2 weeks ago I started on the final run towards the map. Reviewing the info collected over the last […]
Chloe Mandy In Residence – Part 3 Last days in the project space race past, finally the hard graft is paying off. The paintings have evolved, and its exciting, the space allowed me to develop in direction that is just […]
‘Task and a half’ Portsmouth December 20th The day logging re-examined
‘Trace fossil’ Portsmouth December 20th September 17th 2012 One fishing Trace – with green, red & black beads one hairgrip – rusty one reciept poundland – found one meat pie tin foil container – mine one mint – in blue […]
Show opening at Chapel Arts Andover December 20th November 24th 2011 2 wine bottle labels – front & reverse 1 wine bottle label – neck One wine bottle screw cap – in silver One hair grip – clean 2 pull […]
‘The Closing of an era’ Portsmouth December 20th September 26th 2012 One Olympic postcard – with thanks on reverse One small menu – folded One large menu – unfolded One South East Cultural Olympiad book One tube map – from […]
‘Impending transgressions’ Portsmouth December 20th December 7th 2011 One tea reciept – Earl Grey One tea bag tag – Earl Grey 4 stir sticks – tatty to good condition One red pencil – found One copper coin – found 2 […]
‘Joy undivided’ December 4th Portsmouth – london – Portsmouth (Portsmouth December 20th) Woken by dread again at 4 am – starting to slip again without the benefit of nails – I will not let this happen not my choice not […]
Crowdfunding…. OK, so we knew that they were going to take 5% commission (which worked out as £111) but yesterday Kickstater casually announced that they were also charging us £127 for bank changes. Unbelievable! It’s a huge blow to our […]
A just published summary of a-n’s audited accounts to March 2013 shows how its operations benefit its members, subscribers and stakeholders.
Peter Bazalgette took up his new role as Chair of Arts Council England in February this year, replacing Liz Forgan. So, as government funding cuts continue to bite, how has 2013 been as head of England’s arts funding body?
The Kickplate Gallery, Abertillery
11 – 31 December 2013
19.12.13 Almost time for the Christmas break, but just finishing up a few last minute things. Getting our latest exhibition – Heritage Detectives – online here at a-n in Interface, plus making a to-do list for the New Year. Lately […]
Week 56: 7th – 13th OctoberA few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Do It 2013 exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. The project is a generative exhibition now in its 20th incarnation, whose concept required exhibiting artists […]
Framing So: black and white, charcoal and granite, which – rather erroneously – I’ve referred to as ‘colour choices’ (there are others: red and green but more about those later). There’s a chapter in McKerrow’s geology guide called “Arran In […]
i like infographics! this startling revelation came to me on the Facebook channel. there i was … sipping tea thinking about research made yesterday when low and behold … infront of me was a post by susan about the infographic […]
