14-18 NOW: artists respond to first world war
A £10m programme to commemorate three key dates from the first world war will see new works by Anya Gallaccio, Richard Wentworth and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
A £10m programme to commemorate three key dates from the first world war will see new works by Anya Gallaccio, Richard Wentworth and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Newtown-based Oriel Davies Gallery has announced the exhibiting artists for its 2014 Open, which offers a first prize of £1,000 plus a solo show at the gallery.
To mark World Meteorological Day, Loughborough University is launching its Nowcasting programme of contemporary art, bringing artists together with scientists and including a spot of ‘smog tasting’.
Yoko Ono, Andy Goldsworthy and Pablo Bronstein are among the internationally renowned artists commissioned for the third edition of Folkestone Triennial.
Throughout March, venues across the North-East are hosting exhibitions, film screenings and live performances as part of the biennial AV Festival, which this year is themed around the idea of ‘extraction’. We report from the opening weekend and take in some of the key shows in Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
A new blog initiated by the artist Emily Speed invites artists to map and explore how their networks and opportunities are made through the process of making work.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes abstract drawing in London, two titans of modern sculpture in Warwickshire, and speculative future-gazing in Cambridge.
A skeletal, riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are confirmed as the latest works to take their place on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Peckham Platform launches its new vision as an independent charity with the opening of Ruth Beale’s participatory installation, Bookbed. We talk to the artist and the organisation’s executive director Emily Druiff about libraries, socially-engaged practice and being a creative educational platform.
Disabled artists organisation Shape and Artsadmin have been awarded £1.5million by Arts Council England to deliver Unlimited, a new three-year programme of commissions. With the launch of its Unlimited Allies scheme, it’s now looking for help and support so that the scheme can deliver a long-term legacy.
Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire reveal how their artistic and research ethos will lead the way for their fundraising priorities in their joint, Catalyst fund-supported project, How to work together.
It’s been a week that has seen a multi-million pound sponsorship deal at Tate Modern and controversy and column inches about a chair, a Russian socialite and a publicity picture of questionable taste. But is there a link between the two stories?
A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.
All a-n’s UK Artist + AIR members get free, specially tailored public and products liability insurance with their annual membership. Here, a-n’s Director outlines why making sure you’re properly covered is essential for every practising artist.
As the Jerwood Open Forest competition moves to its next stage with an exhibition of five proposals opening in London, an additional £30,000 commission prize has been announced thanks to new support from Arts Council England.
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 design duo, an architecture practice, two ceramicists and a glass artist make up the boundary-pushing shortlist of this year’s Jerwood Makers Open.
At a-n, we know that small awards to artists specifically for self-determined professional development make a big difference. That’s why we’re extending the artists’ bursary programme in 2014.
A just published summary of a-n’s audited accounts to March 2013 shows how its operations benefit its members, subscribers and stakeholders.
The Warwick Commission is aiming to develop new policy thinking and practical recommendations related to the long-term sustainability of culture in the face of tough economic challenges.
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?
As Hull is announced Capital of Culture 2017, Pippa Koszerek takes a look at the burgeoning artist-led activity harboured by this unique and geographically isolated city.
The north east England-based biennial of contemporary art, film and music has announced programme details for its 2014 edition, which takes the idea of extraction as its curated theme.
Exhibition dates and project details announced for second edition of major moving image awards, featuring new commissions by artists in the first five years of their practice.