
Micro-philanthropy
Ed Whiting, founder of WeDidThis, discusses the opportunities that crowd-funding provides for both arts organisations and artists.
Ed Whiting, founder of WeDidThis, discusses the opportunities that crowd-funding provides for both arts organisations and artists.
Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.
Art dealer René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils considers the relationship between artists and galleries, including contracts, gallery responsibilities and what commercial galleries do for artists.
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
2 – 12 June 2011
What do festivals add to a city?
Project Space Leeds
28 April – 6 August
Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
13 May – 25 June
ACME Studios, London
6-22 May
Cornerhouse, Manchester
8 April – 5 June
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
14 May – 10 July
Artists and arts organisations had the opportunity to debate current and future professional development needs and aspirations in June as part of strategic planning by Turning Point West Midlands.
Charlotte Frost has been researching and writing on digital and new media arts for over ten years. Here, she introduces her next projects as the last in her regular ‘Digital practices’ column for a-n Magazine.
Report from the recent conference held in London.
When does artistic freedom become copyright infringement? Artist David Mabb considers works in his practice, including a run-in with Magnum Photos and appropriating the work of William Morris.
A new report reveals that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a “balanced portfolio”.
The photographs of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Amber’s films have been inscribed in the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register as an archive of national cultural significance.
An international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition, the Jameel Prize aims to explore the relationship between Islamic traditions of art, craft and design and contemporary work as part of a wider debate about Islamic culture and its role today.
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
11 June 2011 to 18 June 2011
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Now I really am beginning to doubt this project really will get off the ground without new input somehow. Communications with the Council officer who first invited us to put the proposal together have, in recent months become much more […]