Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]
Major art biennial exhibition
Have trimmed my obligations to make way for concentrating more on the essentials of making work and keeping afloat. Have given myself a horrible ultimatum, which is If I haven’t done x, y and z by this time next year […]
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.
Of my recent three visits to London where I saw Peter Lanyon, Ai Weiwei, Rothko, Leotard and several old favourites at The Courtauld and The Tates; the favourite was the Auerbach exhibition. Taxing on the brain but ultimately so rewarding. […]
This week’s selection includes fantastical collages in London, risk-taking in Margate and exquisite painting and drawing in Kendal.
What else did I do after the Ai WeiWei gallery? The Soane Museum I did successfully enough tried to find the Soane museum with my three classmates who got a little bit lost in the city area but did […]
How well did it go with printing the second layer of Chairman Mao? To be blatantly honest the second stencil layer that I had projected onto silkscreen worked very well even though there was a small hole left through the […]
Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.
I can not help myself – when engaging with something new I turn to books. This time I am trying to track down books on creative uses of feathers. As yet there seems to be very little on the subject […]
The art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth top this year’s ArtReview Power 100, which lists those judged to be the most influential people in the international art world.
As crowdfunding is increasingly adopted by large arts organisations as a fast-track alternative to dwindling public funding, Henrietta Norton – co-founder of the early crowdfunding site WeDidThis – argues that the spirit of risk taking and innovation that inspired early adopters needs to be embraced by these high-profile newcomers.
The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.
This week’s selection features a film installation exploring queer intergenerational relationships, an exhibition charting the emergence of contemporary art in China, and a glimpse into how, for a short period during the 1950s, St Ives challenged the then contemporary art capitals of Paris and New York.
The director of Tate takes the top spot in the contemporary art magazine’s annual list of global art world players.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced as winner of £100,000 prize.
This week we suggest there’s more to the Serpentine’s summer programme than Marina Abramovic’s durational performance, that Mondrian isn’t the only thing to get excited about at Tate Liverpool, and that a chance encounter with eight artists in Middlesbrough is worth planning for.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
The Art Fund annual report reveals that its membership is at a record high – and that in 2012 it paid out over £6m to museums and galleries in the UK.
Maurice Carlin, one of 23 artists who received a Venice Go and see bursary from a-n, takes a tour of the national pavilions and collateral events at the Giardini, Arsenale and beyond, and finds himself washed up in a flood of contemporary art.
Organised by Index on Censorship, Taking the Offensive: Defending Artistic Freedom of Expression in the UK, was a timely and important conference that asked important questions about free speech in the arts.
The Hayward Gallery, london
7 September – 9 December 2012
Tate Britain, London
12 March – 14 October 2012
Preparation. Prep. Be prepared. Tomorrow I’m off down South to the New Designers Prepare Day. Hopefully, I’ll get some awesome tips on how to set up the booth and chat to some other student reps. It’s my birthday weekend too, […]
