The fourth round of the Art Fund’s New Collecting Award sees £300,000 distributed in order to enable each selected curator to develop a new collection for a museum.
For his exhibition ‘Fellowship of Citizens’ London-based Icelandic artist Saemundur Thor Helgason is promoting a lottery set up to help fund a campaign to bring about the idea of a basic income for each person in Iceland. Laura Davidson visits the show at arebyte Gallery and talks to Helgason about his plans.
With ‘Serious Play’ as its theme, Aberdeen’s Look Again Festival offered visitors and locals alike the chance to view the city through fresh eyes with its mix of commissions, exhibitions, talks, events and live events. a-n member FK McLoone headed to the granite city and posted her festival highlights on a-n’s Instagram.
Try Not To Freak Out (2018) Acrylic on canvas, Bec Broomhall Date: 14.6.18 Time: 13.39pm Mood: Lethargic, just after lunch with a stack of things still left to do..plus the gym later.. Listening To: Audiobook: ‘Alone’ by Lisa Gardner […]
For ‘A Woman’s Place at Knole’, six female artists including 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid have responded to the usually hidden, gendered stories of an historic National Trust property in Kent to produce artworks that span painting, sculpture, film and online. Judith Alder reports.
The artists Lubaina Himid and Rose Wylie, plus Liverpool Biennial director Sally Tallant and Peer founder and director Ingrid Swenson, are among those working in the visual arts who receive honours this year.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Royal Academy marks 250th anniversary of annual Summer Exhibition with free to access digital publication, and Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonhams vow to close gender pay gap.
The Arts Council of Wales has announced that Sean Edwards will be representing Cymru yn Fenis/Wales in Venice at next year’s Venice Biennale with new work that considers social class and the everyday.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Edinburgh Art Festival announce artists for 2018 Commissions Programme; Alison Wilding and Adam Kershaw create memorial to British victims of overseas terrorism; Hockney painting sells for £21.1m, breaking auction record for the artist; Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine folds.
Our group meets up with some Tampere based artists, including Tiitu Takalo and Ville Pirinen. An opportunity to compare approaches, discuss techniques and find out about opportunities for Finnish comic artists. KUTIKUTI is a non-profit contemporary comics association; they publish […]
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Jupiter Artland marks 10th anniversary with first permanent commission by Phyllida Barlow; UK museums suffer as Heritage Lottery grants plummet; Arts Council of Ireland issues impartiality warning over abortion referendum.
A new partnership between Dash and Arnolfini, MAC Birmingham and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art will offer residencies for curators who identify themselves as disabled.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including Nicolas Bourriaud to curate 16th edition of the Istanbul Biennial and Frieze New York to offer compensation to exhibitors following heatwave.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Somerset, Glasgow, London and Manchester.
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: Roger Hiorns secretly buries plane near Ipswich; Sophia Al-Maria wins first major US award for contemporary Middle Eastern art; selectors announced for Jerwood Makers Open 2019.
With nearly 100 exhibitions and featuring more than 250 artists, the eighth Glasgow International festival, which continues until 7 May, is a bustlingly busy affair taking place in venues across Scotland’s largest city. To help you navigate it, seven writers on the a-n Writer Development Programme 2017-18 offer their recommendations following an intense and varied opening weekend.
News briefing with national and international stories, including: New York judge awards Egon Schiele art to Holocaust heirs; shortlist announced for Aesthetica Art Prize 2018; Tracey Emin speaks of sexual assault.
Richard Parry was appointed director of the biennial Glasgow International festival in May last year, following a move from Blackpool where he was director/curator at the Grundy Gallery. Chris Sharratt talks to him about the artistic rhythm of Glasgow’s rich and vibrant art scene, and his approach to curating the festival, which is now in its eighth edition.
My next Mentor was Pauline de Souza, Founding Director of Diversity Arts Forum and Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. Pauline knows my work as we teach together at the University Of East London and are both members […]
Finding the next mentor was more problematic and took a long time. The people I approached were too busy but the Whitechapel kindly connected me with Rosie Cooper, Head of Exhibitions at the Dell la War Pavilion. We talked on […]
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund awards capital grants; Art collective Indecline stages secret anti-Trump work in his New York hotel; Los Angeles artist-run space to close; John Baldessari in The Simpsons.
