A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Martin Creed’s alternative Christmas carol, most people don’t think Turner Prize entries are art and fire at California artists’ collective claims 33 lives.
After AQA exam board announced it was to cease offering an A level in art history, Pearson has said it is to develop a new A-level in the subject to be taught from September 2017.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
As the news of Donald Trump’s US election victory sinks in, artists and those working in the visual arts have been sharing their thoughts on his surprise win.
The Beirut-based artist has been announced as the winner of the biennial award for his forensically powerful film installation, earshot.
The former creative programmer for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is to take on role at the creative production organisation.
In the wake of a pro-Brexit vote and ongoing austerity politics, Newcastle upon Tyne plays host to the timely ‘Hidden Civil War’ festival. Lauren Healey reports.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Following the success of a campaign against cuts to the city’s arts budget, the biennial Cardiff festival returns with a 31-day programme of exhibitions and events.
In its Arts Strategy 2016-17, published to coincide with Edinburgh’s festival season, Creative Scotland has made fair pay for artists a core aim as part of its commitment to supporting and promoting artists’ work.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Photographer files $1 billion suit against Getty and Alamy, Orlan loses plagiarism suit against Lady Gaga, and Creative Scotland warns Brexit may limit RFO funding.
This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
Artists Amy Sharrocks and Clare Qualmann have initiated the Walking Women project in order to place women artists within the walking art canon. Pippa Koszerek speaks to them about their practical and utopian mission in advance of their events at Somerset House next week.
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.
Five projects and programmes from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Bracknell, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth and Halesworth.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
a-n and the AIR Council invite artists and the wider visual arts community to ask questions and share their views this Thursday, 1-3pm on Twitter for The Great British Artists’ EU Referendum Debate.
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