A new exhibition and free pop-up summer school from Create London and the William Morris Gallery celebrates the cultural and educational legacy of Walthamstow School of Art, which from 1957 to 1967 became a hotbed of artistic ideas and talent. Lydia Ashman talks to two of the people behind the ‘Be Magnificent’ project.
A selection of exhibitions for the week ahead, including film, photography and found footage in London. collages, drawings and paintings in Glasgow, and a video installation in Birmingham.
where i’m sitting is a bit eerie, it’s slightly dark with no view of the outside world. the heatwave at the moment giving opportunities to practice making shade and keeping cool. our puppy still insists on looking out of the […]
A four-minute walk across the publicly accessible CityPoint courtyard through to The Barbican estate. NO OF CCTV CAMERAS ENCOUNTERED: 7 CCTV OPERATORS: CBRE Ltd (Asset Management) LAND OWNERSHHIP: The CityPoint building and land is owned by Beacon Capital Partners, an American private […]
We have arrived in Praha! Actually we have left Praha already because as I am writing we are on our way to Klaster via Pilsen and Nepomuk. We only spent two full days in Prague. We stayed in the Artharmony […]
A visit to Munster Skulptur Projekte
Observations of Munster Skulptur Projekte –
Michael Asher, Jeremy Deller & Koki Tanaka
Wired’s Italian office commissioned UK-based artist Heath Kane to create a series of images for its latest special edition, guest-edited by Russian art/music/activist collective Pussy Riot.
…and we walked along Lakeside on Europarc… X3 magpies were singing. The fountain was still in operation. The fisherman scrambled. A golden fish leaping from his hands. ‘Ye just missed that…look…’
Speaking with the artist of the Possible Becomings exhibition it is hard not to acknowledge her radiating enthusiasm. Chalmers expresses this enthusiasm as well as joy in the telling of the shows appeal to the youth of today, with a young […]
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in London, Scotland, Wiltshire and Somerset.
The 24-year-old artist, whose work is featured in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, lived on the 20th floor of the block.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: National Museum of China was 2016’s most popular museum and blockade of Qatar threatens cultural institutions.
“Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces.” (Claude Cahun, 1930) I recently went to see the Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask at the National Portrait Gallery. This exhibition brings […]
And so the first ink making has started. It seemed sensible to start creating a stock of black as this is used readily across a variety of print media. Black, as I have been finding out, can be made from […]
It was great to visit the BA Printmaking degree shows at Brighton recently and see some of the work made by students who I’ve had the privilege to work with at times during the past three years. The shows were […]
Northumberland-born artist Peter Hanmer receives £6,500 to develop new work at site situated between Newcastle and Hexham.
PRESS RELEASE ¡Buenos Días Dictador! Eight new postmemory paintings by Sonia Boué ———————————————————————————— Introduction: Sonia Boué is an Anglo-Spanish multiform artist. Her practice is concerned with a legacy of exile, leading to a growing body of work which relates to […]
It’s been such a non-stop few weeks that I have got a lot of catching up to do with this blog! The last month in a nutshell: Made in Korea opened at The Ceramic House, with a wonderful, buzzy, well-attended […]
