A selection of the best exhibitions over the festive period, including shows in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Wakefield, Gateshead, Cardiff and Cornwall.
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes an open exhibition in Somerset, portraiture on the margins in London, and a Q&A with Picasso’s muse in Dartington.
The biggest British survey of artist use of neon from the 1960’s to present day
Group of artists based in east London launch campaign to stop demolition of studios at Vittoria Wharf site in Hackney Wick.
This week’s selection includes work inspired by the city environment and traditional Islamic art in London, an installation in Brighton by one of Arte Povera’s leading lights, and in Leeds a show exploring the relationship between sculpture and prosthetics.
Competition that teams contemporary artists with museums and galleries announces winners following public vote.
Ahead of next week’s climate summit in Paris, over 300 artists, writers, musicians and actors have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to reach an agreement to halt global warming.
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery has opened in south London with the aim of making the artist’s personal collection of over 3000 works of art accessible to the public through a series of curated exhibitions. We take a look at the inaugural show featuring works by the British painter John Hoyland.
Member-run organisation Making Art Work has organised Art Market, a day of artists’ stalls, performances and a charity art auction taking place in Maidstone, Kent.
Turner Contemporary hosts a Margate edition of the Art Car Boot Fair this weekend, with work by high-profile artists including Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin.
This week’s selection includes contemporary portraiture at the V&A, a response to Salibury’s picturesque surroundings and Richard Long in Bristol.
The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.
This week’s selection includes a show in Llandudno that links the act of breathing with the gesture of drawing a line, works dealing with authorship and identity in Salisbury, and a theatrical exploration of an imagined relationship between Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in Sheffield.
The National Open Art competition has announced details of this year’s shortlisted artists ahead of the exhibition opening on 18 September.
Hackney WickED returns for its sixth incarnation in seven years – this time with Arts Council England funding.
Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.
Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.
Funds will be used to purchase new works for UK museums.
Our selection of not-to-be-missed shows this week includes a celebration of Dylan Thomas’ most enduring work by Sir Peter Blake in Cardiff, international artists examining the human form in London, and an exhibition of drawings and paintings in Bristol by an artist best known for his vividly-coloured sculptural installations.
A weekend festival of inspiring after-hours events in museums, galleries and heritage sites kicks off tonight around the UK, with leading visual artists playing a major part. We find out more from Culture24’s Nick Stockman.
Royal College of Art, London
11 – 15 May 2013
Over 30,000 votes cast to match ten artists with ten gallery events for this year’s Museums at Night festival.
Many events have happened recently, mainly positive. I visited Downstairs Gallery at Great Brampton House in Herefordshire to see Matt Brown’s exhibition, Force Quit. The work was beautifully produced and quite complex, visually. There were a number of pieces there […]
