A new series of podcasts from artist-run Manifest Arts provides interviews with artists and arts organisers in the North West of England.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from our busy Events section, take us to Hull, Langport, Leigh on Sea, London and Spalding.
After seven months of development by East Street Arts, Art Hostel in Leeds is open for business. Lara Eggleton tests out the sleeping facilities and reviews the specially commissioned artworks, decor and furnishings.
Culture Action Europe are hosting a 72-hour ‘jam session’ asking: ‘Are artists and intellectuals obliged to engage in society and politics today?’
Bristol’s artist-led festival has received a significant increase in funding from Arts Council England towards the production of its next edition, taking place in September 2016.
S1 Artspace has announced more details of it planned relocation to Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate, following last week’s budget announcement of £1 million of government funding for the scheme.
Despite a further £3.5 billion of cuts planned for 2019-20, George Osborne’s Budget has also dropped a few strategically placed funding packages and a tax reduction for the self-employed.
Recipients of the latest round of a-n bursaries have been announced, with over £36,000 awarded to a-n Artist members to support self-determined professional development over the coming year.
AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent is celebrating 10 years of artist-led activity amidst the shifting environment of the city’s post-industrial regeneration. a-n Writer Development Programme participant Anneka French talks to its directors and takes a look at the gallery’s ten-strong birthday show.
This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes exhibitions in Birmingham, Bury, Colchester and Shrewsbury.
The Syllabus is a nomadic artist development programme billed as an alternative to formal art education. At its half-way stage, Anneka French speaks to the project’s organisers, artist Andy Holden and Wysing Arts Centre, and to two of the ten participating artists.
Are initiatives aimed at disabled artists just a way to make the arts sector feel good about itself, an exercise in discrimination when what is really needed is an even playing field? Cornwall-based artist Stacey Guthrie argues that what is really required is more inclusion and less segregation.
New Orleans-style jazz funeral procession will take place on 6 February to raise awareness of damage caused by Cardiff Council’s arts funding cuts.
A survey of galleries exhibiting at London Art Fair, which takes place this week, has shown growing confidence in the art market with the potential of more people interested in buying art and an increase in sales to international collectors.
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.
When a change of government in the Netherlands reversed years of generous state support for the arts, Rune Peitersen got together with other artists to challenge anti-artist rhetoric and argue for fair pay and support for artists and arts organisations. He talks to artist and AIR Council member Joseph Young about Platform BK, the small but dynamic organisation he co-founded five years ago.
The final conversation in Artquest’s System Failure series took the opportunity to unpick the different approaches of education versus exhibition departments within galleries and museums.
It’s been a busy and fruitful year for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign, with plenty of activity across the UK and internatioanally. Paying Artists Project Manager Julie McCalden looks back over 2015.
The biennial art festival is aiming to raise funds for a new project and social space for the 2016 edition, with rewards for pledgers including studio visits, limited edition artwork, workshops and behind the scenes tours.
The second in Artquest’s System Failure series of conversations took place earlier this week, with a discussion looking at how artists can benefit from urban regeneration. We report from the event at Block 336, an artist-led space in Brixton, London.
The UK’s longest-running artist collective has announced the prize winners of its 82nd open exhibition.
Artquest launched its System Failure series of conversations earlier this week with a discussion looking at how the arts funding system could be restructured to better benefit artists. We report from the event at Block 336, an artist-led space in Brixton, London.
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
This week’s selection includes a site-specific video installation in London reflecting on history, landscape and catastrophic events, a major show of iconic works by American artist Cy Twombly in Bexhill, and an exhibition of artistic tributes at an artist-led space in Yorkshire.
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