As an artist and parent, I spend a lot of time thinking about how art can function to both engage both myself, as a 50’s something artist and my 7 year old daughter. As a show Doug Fishbone’s ‘Leisure land […]
This week’s selection features video work in Bristol and Birmingham, plus painting shows in Walsall, London and Glasgow.
Commemorations include eight new commissions installed at galleries across the UK plus two new touring exhibitions.
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.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
British Art Show 8 curators Anna Colin and Lydia Yee have selected the artists for this year’s exhibition, which opens in Leeds in October.
This week’s selection includes ‘solo’ shows in York and Nottingham by two artists who include examples of other artists’ works to create a dialogue around their own, while a double-header in Leeds sets in place a more formal conversation around the meaning of sculptural objects.
Goldsmiths is to celebrate the life and critical influence of leading cultural theorist Stuart Hall with a week-long series of discussions, screenings and exhibitions that culminates with an international conference exploring his legacy.
10 artists have been shortlisted for the seventh annual Film London Jarman Award, celebrating the legacy of Derek Jarman’s highly experimental and risk-taking approach to filmmaking.
For this week’s snapshot of international art activity, covering 1-7 November, we’re in New York, Shanghai, Warsaw and the district of Tensta in Sweden.
Liverpool (various), Liverpool
15 September – 25 November 2012
Arrival in Liverpool, Monday 1 October, 1.45pm A pack of schoolboys zigzagging up and down the steps of St George’s Hall blazers flapping in the wind all jonpaulgeorgeandringo, taking photos A beach flip-flop on the pavement Japanese students standing in […]
From an orchestra of 100 electric guitars in the Anglican Cathedral to cakes and coffee in a bakery in Anfield, Liverpool Biennial continues to be a welcome guest in the city.
