In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Belgian Art Prize nominees withdraw following all-male shortlist controversy and Turkish artist Zehra Dogan jailed for ‘spreading terrorist propaganda’ continues to paint on scrap paper from prison.
More than 100 artists, including 15 Turner Prize winners, have called on the government to scrap the EBacc which critics claim is sidelining arts subjects in English secondary schools.
25 artists will contribute works to an online auction hosted by the art-buying website Artsy.
The American art historian and author of the groundbreaking 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, died on 29 October aged 86. Fisun Güner considers her writing’s influence and continued significance today.
The biennial Manchester International Festival has announced its full programme, which includes presentations by Tino Sehgal and Dan Graham, as well as a major group exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
More News In Brief: New York’s Guggenheim Museum targeted by opioid crisis protesters over Sackler family links; Tracey Emin’s Margate studio to be turned into a museum for her work when she dies.
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.
An open letter signed by artists including Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon and Ed Ruscha, as well as the actors Val Kilmer and Ewan McGregor, has called on the board of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to reopen the recently closed Inverleith House as a gallery for contemporary art.
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.
Turner Contemporary hosts a Margate edition of the Art Car Boot Fair this weekend, with work by high-profile artists including Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin.
Katie Paterson has won the visual art category at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards, with Tracey Emin receiving The Outstanding Achievement Award.
A major new report supported by a-n calls for Government action to protect artists’ livelihoods by investing in the country’s visual arts sector.
London based artist Emma Douglas works with a wide range of media, including drawing, printing, painting, photography, sculpture and film. Here she reflects on a successful year that included winning the Working Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
This week’s selection features exhibitions, talks and projects presented via online viewing rooms, social media and other online platforms, plus newly reopened physical spaces, including: Phyllida Barlow leads the reopening of Firstsite gallery, a-n member Kerry Baldry curates an online moving image exhibition of work made within the duration of one minute by artists at varying stages of their careers, plus The Crafts Council’s bi-monthly lunchtime talks designed to support makers in their business development.
As the marquees go up in the park, we take a look at some of the fairs, events and curated projects taking place this week in London and beyond, including a new Art on the Underground commission by Denzil Forrester, House of Voltaire’s latest pop-up space and the second iteration of the Coventry Biennial.
More news in brief: Carl Freedman set to open new space in Margate as gallery relocates from London; curator Klaus Littmann to plant 299 trees in Austrian football stadium in statement against climate change; plus Saatchi Gallery covers up artworks following complaints by Muslim visitors.
What does 2019 have in store in terms of exhibitions, art fairs, festivals, conferences and other events? We take a month-by-month look at what the year ahead has to offer.
Five recommended shows from across the UK, including: a group show exploring socio-political turmoil at Bo-Lee Gallery, London, Siobhán Hapaska’s sculpture at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and Lucy Orta’s collaborative banners at Medicine in Birmingham.
A selection of international exhibitions at museums and art galleries that either allow free or discounted entry with an IAA card, now available to a-n members. This month we visit Denmark, Norway, Germany, Hungary, Turkey and France.
in Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: 200-year-old Rio museum The Museu Nacional gutted by fire, Tes analysis shows arts subjects are being slashed in favour of English, maths and science, plus more than 10,000 publicly-owned artworks remain hidden from public view across London.
9,000 secondary school arts teachers have left their jobs in England since 2011. Arts Professional’s Jonathan Knott reports.
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Campaigners criticise BP sponsorship of Iraq exhibition at British Museum; Damien Hirst’s former business manager to sell 200 art works; and one person killed and 22 injured in shooting at New Jersey arts festival.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the latest edition of Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open triennial, Lubaina Himid’s banner-like paintings in Gateshead, an exploration of ‘universal collective memory’ in Bristol, and a new exhibition at Tate Britain marking 100 years since the end of the first world war.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes Antony Gormley at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Egon Schiele/Francesca Woodman at Tate Liverpool, and Animals & US at Turner Contemporary, Margate.
As degree show season starts to get busy, we highlight 11 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows that are opening over the next seven days.
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