NOW SHOWING #180: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
Current Director of the Whitworth, Manchester and Manchester City Galleries will succeed Sir Nicholas Serota who is stepping down after almost 30 years in the role.
The current director of Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Galleries is expected to take the top job at Tate.
A selection of the best exhibitions over the festive period, including shows in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Wakefield, Gateshead, Cardiff and Cornwall.
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Birmingham and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
This week’s selection includes painting in London, multidisciplinary art in Gateshead and a group show exploring what it means to be independent in Liverpool.
The Beirut-based artist has been announced as the winner of the biennial award for his forensically powerful film installation, earshot.
This week’s selection includes an investigation into the social origins of the collective consciousness in London, a futuristic medical room in Cambridge and Tracey Emin and William Blake in Liverpool.
Laura Robertson reports on this year’s New Contemporaries in Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial.
This week’s selection includes landscapes in Eastbourne, portraiture at the Royal Academy and art meets science in Glasgow.
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.
This week’s selection includes participatory art in Llandudno, conceptual art in Somerset and painting in Liverpool.
This week’s selection features installation in Swansea, video in Exeter and painting in London.
This week’s selection includes portraiture in Leeds, Pre-Raphaelites in Liverpool, still life in Wimbledon and video and installation in London.
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
This week’s selection includes a million objects at South London Gallery, an exploration of how social media is impacting on personal identity at Liverpool’s FACT, and a Bill Murray-inspired installation at BALTIC, Gateshead.
A group exhibition of newly-commissioned photography has opened at Jerwood Space London, enabled by the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Tim Clark speaks to Photoworks director, Celia Davies, about the impetus for setting up this joint programme and what the various bodies of work might reveal about the new generation of practitioners.
Deutsche Börse Prize nominee Zanele Muholi has been documenting the LGBT community in her home country of South Africa for nearly ten years, creating a body of work that has been shown around the world. As a show of her photography opens in Liverpool, Laura Robertson talks to her.
Alex Farquharson, founding director of Nottingham Contemporary, appointed director of Tate Britain.
Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section continues with exhibitions, festivals and workshops in Aberdeen, Bristol, Corby, Plymouth and St Leonards-on-Sea.
This week’s UK-wide exhibition selection ranges from a major show of work by Glasgow-based 2008 Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes at Tate Liverpool, to Chinese painter Zhang Enli at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
The annual open exhibition for final year undergraduates and recent postgraduates announces the three artists who will be selecting work for the 2015 show.
The international curator and former director of Liverpool Biennial looks back on a year that, amongst many other things, saw him curate the third Folkestone Triennial.
Six a-n writers – based in London, Hastings, Glasgow and Edinburgh – pick, in no particular order, their top five UK exhibitions of the year.
Good things are happening in Cardiff’s visual arts scene, with an energy and momentum that can be seen in the current Cardiff Contemporary festival. But, argues former Artes Mundi director Ben Borthwick, there is much that needs to be done if the biennial event – and Wales’ contemporary art scene generally – is to really fulfil its potential.