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Children as Damien Hirst?s skull and Julie Opie?s portrait of Blur at Art Boot Camp
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Artists question regeneration

Led by curator Vicki Lewis and artist Katherine Clarke (muf), the We Are Artists, How Can We Help? action research project questions the presence of artists as a model in regeneration. What does the artist gain? Is there a benefit swap between the artist constituency and their neighbours?

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from the Saturdads sessions
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Saturdads

Approached by Modern Art Oxford to deliver art sessions at a Sure Start children’s centre in the Rose Hill area of Oxford, artist Jon Lockhart began a four-year residency at the centre as part of MAO’s ambitious Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded offsite programme.

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Anthony McCall with model of Column
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Artists’ Olympic projects

In 2009 and selected by regional groups, twelve arts commissions worth £5.4 million were awarded for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Emily Speed takes a look at how some of the Artists Taking the Lead projects are progressing around the halfway point between commission announcements and their presentation.

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It Happened In The Corner?
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Debate – 2011 July

What do festivals add to a city?

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TrasHeaD
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ACE Wednesday

On 30 March, Arts Council England announced the winners and losers in the new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15. Here’s a-n’s take on what’s happened, the likely impact on artists, independent arts professionals and the arts ecology as well as highlights from some of the many comments and discussions that are in train.

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Cesar Manrique Workshop
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Art and learning

Education and community projects engaging artists and audiences across the UK and Europe.

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Hill33
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Hill33

A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In this article, artist David Cotterrell and Projects Director Carolyn Black reflect on the realisation of a unique and demanding work for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail.

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Figment
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Arts cuts bite

In advance of 2012’s arts cuts, some important production organisations supporting visual arts’ practice will shortly close.

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a-n Magazine February 2011
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a-n Magazine February 2011

Contents include: Features include ‘Commissioning 2011’ and ‘Prizes and awards’; Dr Jon Bowen debates ‘Democracy: the new way forward’; In Collaborative relationships Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk discuss recent commissions for the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal […]

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Wideyed in Belgrade, June 2010
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NAN in conversation with Wideyed

In June 2010, Darlington-based photography collective Wideyed was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Belgrade for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Lucy Carolan of Wideyed about the bursary and its impact on the group.

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Ruined at Brunswick Cemetery Gardens
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Commission and create

This month we profile a selection of open exhibition and public art commissioning projects, from applied arts opportunities to innovative site-specific works.

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Signs from Everything you need to build a town is here
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Wonders of Weston

Director of Situations Claire Doherty and artist Stephen Hodge (of Wrights & Sites) give their account of how they developed a contemporary public artwork to reanimate visitors’ experiences of Weston-super-Mare.

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Summer Landscape - Burgh Island
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Start your Chinese collection

With bids starting at just £200, the UK’s first Chinese contemporary art auction aims to be accessible both to established collectors and those looking to start a collection.

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Search Party Vs Lincoln
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Partners in arts

Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.

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Spontaneous City
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Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven

Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural ‘habitat’ that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations.

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Alfredo Jarr?s Marx Lounge
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Re:Thinking Trade

During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.

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Evacuate
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Reflections on the arts funding crisis

Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.

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Digital visions

Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.

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The Big Draw
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The Big Draw at Croft Castle

Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.

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Sound it Out (Russell and the Wolves)
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Nottingham Sideshow

Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.

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