The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursary scheme has awarded 10 artists’ initiatives nearly £5000, supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artists.
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
Isa Genzken, Wim Delvoye, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Shilpa Gupta and Tris Vonna-Michell are among the artists announced to take part in the 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
A new report urges those working with arts and culture to rethink their contribution to a vision of sustainable development that benefits the whole of society. Report co-author, Mark Robinson, introduces the provocation and identifies three vital ‘practices’ that can only be achieved by collaboration between artists, institutions and an intelligent funding ecology.
LOCWS International announces its next programme of temporary public art commissions, with 13 new works from artists including Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith and Ross Sinclair.
a-n’s popular professional development programme, designed to give artists and visual arts freelancers the confidence and know-how to move their practice and projects forward, continues into 2014 with a series of seminars and workshops in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Leicestershire.
A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.
Hotel Elephant’s recent move from the Heygate Estate to Newington Causeway in South London sees the launch of its first shop and café, along with studios, a gallery and projection room within 15,000 square feet of warehouse space.
Arts Council England has set out its agenda for arts investment for 2015-18, and alongside an announcement that the National Portfolio Organisation budget will combine Lottery funding with government grant-in-aid for the first time, ACE also says it is expecting NPOs to pay artists fairly.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.
The Director of Spike Island, Bristol, reflects on 2013, from the impact of funding cuts to surviving cider-based cocktails at the opening night of the New Contemporaries exhibition.
For the last of guides to Christmas shopping alternatives to the high street, we take a look at gift ideas from artist-led charities, self-organised publishers and craft centres around the UK.
In part three of our series highlighting artworks by artists and designer-makers that provide an enticing alternative to the high street, we visit Bexhill-on-Sea, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London.
From the Turner Prize to the recent Lumiere festival, the visual arts has played an important role in Derry-Londonderry’s 12 months as the first UK City of Culture. But as the year draws to a close, what will its legacy be for art and artists in the city?
Our search for gift ideas beyond the High Street continues as we highlight opportunities to support the work of artists and arts organisations in Aberdeen, Ashford, Bristol, London and Sheffield.
A new centre for contemporary art and learning has just opened in a landmark heritage building in Leeds. Tina Jackson paid a visit to The Tetley’s opening weekend to find a “buzzing and inclusive event” that pitched agitprop public discussion and an artist’s open studio alongside a selection of curated artefacts from the the building’s former life as a brewery, and provided a fascinating perspective on the relationship between art and labour.
For this week’s selection of must-see shows, we’re watching ‘superb video works’ in London and Derry, exploring the radical side of Conservatism in Manchester, and experiencing performances at the ‘limits of knowledge’ in London.
This week (29 Nov-5 Dec) our snapshot of international art action sees us mostly in Miami, but not before taking a quick look at Amsterdam and Busan, South Korea.
As Christmas approaches, we’ll be veering off the High Street to offer a snapshot of gift ideas from across the UK that support the work of artists and arts organisations. This week, take your pick from handprinted wrapping paper, artist-designed beach towels and bags, and specially produced print editions and publications.
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Five artist-led initiatives have been awarded Go and See bursaries to attend this weekend’s Art Party Conference in Scarborough.
Submissions are being invited for Connect/Exchange, an ambitious pilot project led by Northern Film & Media that will facilitate six artists’ exchanges between three UK cities.
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