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When faced with challenging times and a scarcity of resources, it is understandable that our instinct might be to retract and take fewer risks.

Cara Courage examines the evidence about the gender imbalance in the arts workforce and asks whether it’s really down to women wanting to ‘have it all’.

This month’s Research papers: Art work in 2007 draws on intelligence held within the data researched and published continuously by a-n for our jobs and opportunities.

Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.

“Art should be recognised as a staple part of our everyday lives like bread, and in that respect it should be ordinary, albeit an extraordinary ordinariness, but no less essential in sustaining life.”

With inflation about to hit a ten-year high¹, to what extent can the practices of artists nowadays resist the pressures of the real world?

Are artists part of the problem when it comes to global warming?

Paul Matosic’s letter (June issue) raises important issues for all artists for whom operating professionally is vital.

June marks the completion of a-n’s 25-year programme of research, debate and publishing.

The Meeting of Minds Brain Sciences Project¹ put citizens from nine European countries in open dialogue with brain scientists and policymakers, to explore and make decisions on key future concerns.

The trains of thought that permeate through the writing we commission each month provide indicators for the future. Highlighting what is on the edge of becoming significant within artists’ practices, is a characteristic of a-n’s work, providing a very different […]

Writing about findings from her independent review of the NAN (Networking Artists’ Networks) initiative, Jane Watt highlights how ‘trust’ is a crucial factor in supporting artists’ critical and professional development. “This five-letter word,” she says “could be an evaluator’s (or […]

Notions of sharing knowledge and experiences – both good and bad – are inherent within those who seek continuous improvement and development in their artistic practices.

“It is vital to widen participation and support social inclusion towards ‘visual literacy’” must be easy for Susan Jones to write [Editorial, a-n Magazine January]. Hindsight often clarifies the morass between ‘us and them’, but try looking from my side. […]

“The big difference between working in Britain and Europe is that here, you are not really expected to debate ideas. Money and marketing are what matter most. We live in an events culture in the UK.” 1 This remark from […]

Flexible approaches and imaginative thinking were at the forefront of the debates.

What if every school had a studio where children, parents, carers and teachers had the opportunity to experience art and discuss ideas with artists on a daily basis? What if every regeneration programme included a team of artists from the […]

Exchange between public and private can be difficult – as politicians find when arguing for corporate investment into education, healthcare and transport. But what might first appear to be radically different viewpoints are perhaps less so when notions of sustainability […]

When invited in March to give evidence in person at the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Inquiry into the Market for Art, we used the opportunity to emphasise key areas for attention that would benefit many artists, taking into account […]

Identifying future patterns of living and working – within our sector and the world beyond – is a core function for national arts organisations like us. If we don’t know what people are thinking, and how their behaviour and relationships […]

Speaking about Liverpool’s success in being selected to host City of Culture in 2008, Chair of the judges Sir Jeremy Isaacs commented that this city’s proposal had won because it “scored more goals” than the people’s choice bidder, Newcastle and […]

“Artists work in the interface between the real and the imagined. They coax us out of the numbness of the everyday and into a heightened space where we can inhabit other lives and find ourselves in other circumstances. The mind […]