Almost as if a gift for the festive season, in December Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt launched a strategy to encourage greater philanthropy in the arts. To kick it off, 2011 has been proclaimed the ‘Year of Corporate Philanthropy’.
Ben Washington, We’re Being Kept Informed As The Situation Unfolds.
Kathryn Campbell Dodd of Bird in the House reported in her blog on going to the ‘On Collecting: Transactions in Contemporary Art’ symposium at The National Gallery of Wales in December. The event was chaired by Gordon Dalton from Mermaid & Monster, facilitated by g39, and was part of the Contemporary Art Society’s National Network programme for their centenary year. The event’s purpose was to “investigate the market for contemporary art in Wales”.
The Open College of the Arts (OCA) launched Europe’s first MA in Fine Art by distance learning in January.
Resources, workshops and events for artists across the UK.
“The artist has always occupied a privileged but fragile position in the public eye. For centuries, we have looked to artists across all disciplines to inspire and entertain us, to help us explore the limits of human nature and human possibilities, [and] at times to lead debate and forment revolution.”
News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.
A selection of forthcoming open exhibition competitions, bursaries and prizes for artists.
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In 2009-10 a series of permanent artworks were negotiated for a major redevelopment of Bethnal Green’s former Town Hall into an exclusive hotel. Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk give their account of these negotiations and the work resulting from one of the commissions.
Contents include: Features include ‘Commissioning 2011’ and ‘Prizes and awards’; Dr Jon Bowen debates ‘Democracy: the new way forward’; In Collaborative relationships Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk discuss recent commissions for the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal […]
MIT Press, 2010
1 October 2010 – 31 December 2011
The first month So, as you might have noticed – I’ve started this blog at the end of January, so in theory nearly a month into the residency, but in practice I haven’t really started yet. This is frustrating but […]
In the last language exchange I learnt quite a lot of new words, I only hope I manage to remember a few of them. Unfortunately, I have the impression I forget words as quickly as I remember them. Trying to […]
Had an interesting meeting last week about our Contextual Reports, these are in place of a Dissertation. An MA without a dissertation seems very bizarre to me. I LOVE writing and was looking forward to this part greatly but and […]
The day after my last post I was taken ill with pneumonia and hospitalised. I thought only old or compromised people got pneumonia not fit healthy people! Anyway, it’s taken a while to get back on top of things and […]
VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY V. AUTHENTIC MATERIALITY I cant get the idea out of my head that I need to justify (to myself) why drawing, specifically pencil on paper might be a valid means of visual art today. I imagine it lies […]
After experiencing frozen clay work before Christmas that resulted in a couple of disastrous firings (a miserable nightmare!) – things are looking up again :) *I have been selected for the second year for North Yorkshire Open Studios – happening […]
Can a work of art really be connected to the artist when the artist hasn’t made it or perhaps even touched it? Breaking through the restrictions of medium, what Rosalind Krauss calls the post-medium condition, shattered the boundaries but has […]
Just found out John Smith’s 1976 Girl Chewing Gum will be screened on Friday night at Tate Britain while Anthony’s performing Musica Practica. I’m very happy to discover this – Smith’s film was a steady reference point for me when […]
“When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. […]
After a few hours in deep contemplation about what not to do I aired my musings with the head of course today. It has been difficult to decide on a direction for this research. When I started rummaging through the […]
GLIMPSES STOP-START BRIEFLY * I have begun reading The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald, which explores representations of nature and landscape (often gardens specifically) in American avant-garde film. Many of the individual studies (of Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line, […]
