At 88, the American painter Alex Katz is as prolific as ever, producing large-scale works and exhibiting widely. With a new show just opened at the Serpentine Gallery, Fisun Güner talks to the Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based artist about finding his way in the 1950s, getting noticed in the 1990s, and hitting his stride in his later years.
Having a small break from my brilliantly inspiring curatorial critique sessions that have so far taken me to meet curators in Liverpool at The Bluecoat, Leeds at The Tetley and Manchester at International 3 and Manchester Art Gallery. When I […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news. This week includes a new Google project aiming to create art, suspects arrested for theft of Francis Bacon paintings and how creative arts can re-engage prisoners in education.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Folkstone, London, Newcastle and Redditch.
in the beginning …. such a biblical proportion of a statement. the start of the residency does feel of biblical proportions, the ambition of those behind the re-imagining of the derby silk mill museum being bold and looking way into the […]
The A.L.T. fundraiser is raising money for the annual Art Licks Weekend, selling functional items for the home by ten emerging artists.
a record of activity and reflection during my steam powered maker residency at the prototyping of the museum of making at derby silk mill.
also my portfolio for the maker certificate run by sonoma state university. this is made possible by maker ed through #makercorps
A new exhibition featuring proposals for a permanent artwork in the city has just opened, featuring scale models from Brian Griffiths, Roger Hiorns, Heather and Ivan Morison, Susan Philipsz and Keith Wilson
I’ve packed my things and I’m leaving the studio and Wong Chuk Hang. I’m glad I came just to meet Jimmy, Robert, John and Dan but it’s time to move on. I loved meeting John for coffee in the […]
The inaugural edition of the £100,000 award aims to raise the profile of mid-career women artists via an exhibition at a major art gallery outside London.
Having finished 14 diagram poems I’m ready to start finding order amongst seemingly random stanzas. These are all going to be framed for the exhibition as well as several of them being printed as a limited edition booklet for visitors […]
Bill Viola has a reputation as one of the pioneers of video art. Not only has he been making work since the 1970s, but he is one of the few who have managed to cross over into the mainstream imaginary, […]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announces ambitious public art project spanning 17 of London’s most celebrated bridges, from Albert Bridge in Chelsea to Tower Bridge in the City.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here What I should really be doing is getting ready to go to work. Putting my face on so I don’t scare the children. What I find myself doing is stretching my feet across the coffee […]
Three artists present work stemming from their recent residencies at the 19th century, neo-Norman Penrhyn Castle, a former family home near Bangor now managed by the National Trust.
Sketch 4. Paris: Wandering Savagely. Bound for a major re-think. Work on the project is proving intense. I’m in studio phase and working as many hours as I can on paintings – some of which sit! like well trained dogs, […]
There’s a section in the ACE funding application form in which they ask what our project audience figures will be. Of course its hard to be 100% sure, you can only guess. Yesterday though, I had an email off the […]
I went to see this exhibition with the entirety of my bank balance, and it was completely free. Walking through Manchester Gallery you’re faced with a double stairwell symmetrically opposite one another. Paintings fixed to the wall, these paintings scream […]
We did some experimental run throughs on site. We tried performing in parallel, and performing in turn and then pausing whilst the other one does some. The parallel performance works much better, the serial one is a bit pedestrian and […]
