The temporary pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery has become an annual summer event, working with internationally renowned architects and blurring the relationship between art and architecture. Julian Vigo talks to the designer of this year’s ‘cloudscape’ structure, Sou Fujimoto.
In the run up to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Dalton speaks to some of the artists participating in this year’s tenth-anniversary edition, as well as Director Sorcha Carey about the impact of the publicly-sited commissions.
The just announced commissioned projects for this year’s Frieze London art fair have a child-friendly, playful feel.
Five talented emerging makers unveil the results of their £7,500 Jerwood Makers Open commissions this week in London. We talk to the Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and two of this year’s selected makers about the project.
Arts Council England has set aside £40m for exceptional projects and contingency funds for National Portfolio Organisations over the next two years.
Five projects have been selected for research and development phase of Jerwood Open Forest.
Three of London’s leading contemporary art spaces have announced a new partnership exploring collaborative models within the visual arts.
a-n and The Design Trust launch a new partnership with a panel discussion as part of The Design Trust Start Up Day at New Designers 2013 on 27 June.
The first results of AIR’s UK-wide Paying Artists Survey – which focuses on artists’ experiences of publicly-funded galleries – reveal low earnings, miniscule or no fees at all for exhibiting, and shrinking production budgets.
Locus+ is celebrating 20 years of innovative visual arts projects and publications by launching its first ever fund-raising Print Portfolio at the Venice Biennale. We find out more from Director and Founder Jon Bewley.
The phasing in of Universal credits will affect millions of people, in particular the self-employed and sole business owners, including artists.
Contemporary Art Society director Paul Hobson has been announced as the new director of Modern Art Oxford.
Lincoln is developing a strong, artist-led art scene that is responding to the particularities of the area while presenting the work of local and international artists. We report from this historic East Midlands city.
Arts producing agency Forma is celebrating a decade of working with leading artists by reappraising previous projects and announcing a raft of new ones. We speak to founder David Metcalfe and artists Matt Stokes and Graham Dolphin about the past, the future and the role of the producer.
Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman are appointed joint curators of the UK’s ‘largest contemporary art festival’.
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
“Strongest programme yet” for EAF’s tenth anniversary features Gabriel Orozco, Lawrence Weiner, Christine Borland and Jeremy Deller.
Jerwood Visual Arts and Forestry Commission England launch £30,000 commission to be realised anywhere within England’s Public Forest Estate.
An Arts Council England Grants for the arts award is enabling the volunteer-run Macclesfield Barnaby Festival to develop a series of site-specific art commissions over two years.
The Contemporary Art Society’s National Network conference in Nottingham took as its theme ‘commissioning for public collections’ and featured presentations from directors and curators from some of the UK’s leading visual arts organisations. We report from the day.
After over 20 years as an automonous organisation, film and video commissioning agency Picture This is to merge with Bristol’s Spike Island.
With a month to go to the deadline of the Open submission programme, Artangel and the BBC offer up a series of five new audio broadcasts that respond to the Radio 4 morning schedule.
Egyptian-born Sam Shendi has won the FIRST@108 Public Art Award, receiving £10,000 towards the cost of producing his large-scale sculpture.
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.
Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.
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