Suar and Spice
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Archive
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August 22, 2016 -
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September 04, 2016 -
Location:
London
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Following the success of a campaign against cuts to the city’s arts budget, the biennial Cardiff festival returns with a 31-day programme of exhibitions and events.
In its Arts Strategy 2016-17, published to coincide with Edinburgh’s festival season, Creative Scotland has made fair pay for artists a core aim as part of its commitment to supporting and promoting artists’ work.
Thanks for the memories! l-r Sara Lerota, Rebecca Ilett and Robert Good in Mostar Our travel grant trip is over and although only we have only been back a few weeks it already seems a lifetime ago as we plunge […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Photographer files $1 billion suit against Getty and Alamy, Orlan loses plagiarism suit against Lady Gaga, and Creative Scotland warns Brexit may limit RFO funding.
So pleased to be showing in this show, and to have my piece on the publicity! Press Release: SUGAR AND SPICE – PLASTIC PROPAGANDA’S LATEST EXHIBITION Devon House, St Katharine’s Way St Katharine Docks London E1 21 August to 4th […]
Our last day. Sad face. Today we had a crack at the edits, looking through all the footage and trying to work out our ins and outs, quite literally. By mid afternoon, we had gotten tired of looking at hours […]
“In today’s cynicism, the disavowal of knowledge is not embodied in a fetish object – things are bought to a self-referential extreme so that the fetish enables us to disavow knowledge itself. “Knowledge” functions as an obstacle which prevents … […]
I used to blog a lot, blogging was a vital and prolific part of my creative process, as a channel for communicating and reflecting on the ideas and processes that were creating my public work, and began on this site […]
TAKING ADVICE FROM GRAYSON PERRY @OPENARTSPACES @PLASTICP1 @NORTHENDROAD Taking the advice of Grayson Perry to take every opportunity that comes along sometimes leaves me feeling a bit exhausted and disenchanted…and then… Sometimes when you are just wondering if it was […]
Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed has major shows on at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and Park Avenue Armory in New York, has recently played at Glastonbury, and has just released a new album of songs, Thoughts Lined Up. Fisun Güner talks to him about music, art, food phobias and life after Brexit.
This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
Artists Amy Sharrocks and Clare Qualmann have initiated the Walking Women project in order to place women artists within the walking art canon. Pippa Koszerek speaks to them about their practical and utopian mission in advance of their events at Somerset House next week.
I have walked over the golf course 2-3 times since my last posting but somehow unable to write anything? May be there seemed no change worth talking about? But I think the reality is it’s difficult to talk about change. […]
In the latest instalment of her monthly column on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at some beautiful publications inspired by the works of the Bard ahead of this year’s Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair.
The outspoken artist and performer Liv Wynter is undertaking a residency at the artist-run Royal Standard titled HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU? to coincide with this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool Biennial. Laura Robertson speaks to her about activism, artists getting paid, and remembering Ana Mendieta.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: curatorial team set for London’s King’s Cross; arson attack results in relocation of Liverpool Biennial artwork; protests against Australian arts cuts; and Christie’s art sale exceeds post-Brexit estimates.
Following the UK referendum, in which the majority voted to leave the EU, a-n surveyed its members on the likely impact of Brexit.
The trip is becoming ever more surreal as we continue to enjoy so many good times against a backdrop of increasingly unbelievable political events back home. We’ve talked Brexit with our hosts but, perhaps surprisingly, after the shock of the […]
We asked artists, arts organisers and writers to comment on how leaving the EU might affect culture and creativity in the UK. Here, writer and researcher François Matarasso, mima’s Alistair Hudson, Katrina M Brown of the Common Guild, Modern Art Oxford director Paul Hobson, and artists Haroon Mirza, Joseph Young and Gordon Shrigley give their views.
Geoffrey Brown of EUCLID shares his views on Brexit and provides a brief overview of practical implications for developing partnerships and applications for EU funding.
It’s been an emotional few days. My ACE funded project about British artist Felicia Browne has never felt so relevant. Brexit casts a pall over everything I do. I’m best when fully absorbed and setting up a showing of process […]
So after last week’s bombshell vote in favour of Brexit I feel slightly compelled to angle the project towards the issues that could potentially emerge from this for artists. This may be a knee jerk reaction on my part but […]