What does 2016 have in store in terms of conferences and events, exhibitions, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer – and we’ll be adding new events for later in the year as they’re confirmed.
Looking for Christmas present ideas but want to avoid the high street? Why not support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art by purchasing unusual or limited edition works online instead. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off, from a 50p badge to a £400 print.
Sticking to the theme of emotion, i wanted to explore emotions in this project, through photography and video and maybe even text. I had been looking at Jeremy Deller’s work over the summer, and I like how he used an […]
Four artists who create work deemed to enrich the visual experience of our urban spaces have been shortlisted for the £10,000 award.
Recorded deep inside a granite mountain in Scotland, Maria Fusco’s Artangel/BBC Radio 4 commission, Master Rock, tells the story of the men who 50 years ago risked their lives to create the Cruachan hydro-electric power station, and the artist whose mural was commissioned at the site to mark its opening. Moira Jeffrey reports.
This week’s selection includes Frank Auerbach’s paintings of people and the urban landscapes in London, British sculpture from the ’70s and ’80s in Coventry, and a radical coming together of the Situationist, Beat and Punk movements in Southampton.
As part of the year-long fig-2 show, which sees a new artist exhibiting every week at London’s ICA, the winner of the Student Open Call is Goldsmiths MFA student Manuel Mathieu.
Not to coincide with ‘the role of art in music on 6 Music’ or Jeremy Deller’s musings on Warhol’s ‘Art Factory’, I released my new single Take the World this week. This, like all the other musical output I have […]
At the beginning of August I headed down to the Tate Britain in London to see the British Folk Art exhibition. Although my work is not particularly influenced by the folk art style, I was interested to see examples of […]
Originally staged at the 2014 AV Festival in Newcastle as a major installation on the River Tyne, Test Dept’s film DS30, which documents the 1984-85 miners’ strike, is now out on tour. Chris Sharratt speaks to two of the founding members of the group.
I have been very busy over the past week or so, and time just seems to have flown by. I am now in the stage of visiting sites in the North West, and have also visited one in the North […]
Artist and curator Gaynor O’Flynn’s Artists for Nepal campaign is raising funds to help victims of the recent earthquakes in Himalayan region.
The preview days of the biennale from a personal perspective
Manchester International Festival has announced John McGrath, currently head of National Theatre Wales, as its new CEO and artistic director.
For the 56th Venice Biennale curated show, All The World’s Futures, Okwui Enwezor has brought together the work of 136 artists across the Giardini and Arsenale. Artist Jade Montserrat reports.
Vote Art has seen artists such as Jeremy Deller and Bob and Roberta Smith using art to encourage people to vote through a series of billboards across the country. On the eve of tomorrow’s general election, Laura Harris argues that the project demonstrates worrying tendencies in both contemporary art and parliamentary politics.
Solo show of ex-YBA is lewd, humourous and paradoxical – everything that makes her so great.
The Arts Emergency Response Centre at The Cass, Whitechapel is curated by Bob and Roberta Smith and brings together artists, students and organisations to highlight the importance of arts education.
Artworks encouraging people to vote in the general election will be appearing on billboards around the UK from this Thursday, 23 April, with a new work by first-time-voter Jordan Alex Smith joining those of the five already announced artists.
a-n and AIR has launched the Paying Artists Regional Advocates – a team of eleven artists across five cities tasked with ensuring more artists’ voices get heard within the campaign in the lead up to the general election.
Artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Richard Wentworth and Jeremy Deller are contributing to an online fundraising auction for Milton Keynes Arts Centre by creating original work from a white ceramic plate.
The curator of the 56th Venice Biennale has revealed the 136-strong list of participating artists for the International Exhibition, including works by many high-profile names such as Steve McQueen, Jeremy Deller and Oscar Murillo.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have on top of the cupboard in my studio an old grubby padded bra. I have stuck glass-headed pins into it in a floral pattern on the outside, as if beaded. The points […]
The visual arts programme for this year’s Manchester International Festival has been announced, with new works by Gerhard Richter, Ed Atkins, Olafur Eliasson and Douglas Gordon among the highlights.
A new project encouraging people to vote launches across the UK in April, with a series of billboards featuring works by artists Bob & Roberta Smith, Fatima Begum, Janette Parris and Jeremy Deller. Plus a competition to find a fifth artwork created by a first-time voter is open for entries.
