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Moving on up… and out
News of gallery developments, expansions and relocations.
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Art in the public realm
Exploring the roles and reasons of selected organisations dedicated to widening access to the visual arts through commissioning temporary and permanent interventions in non-gallery spaces in the first of a two-part feature.
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Annual collection
‘Beacon’ is a recurring feature within the Lincolnshire expanse, with 2007 seeing the fourth annual collection of sited works in the county’s rural landscape and towns.
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Gallery model
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
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Digital resources
Exploring selected arts organisation with significant facilities and programmes for digital and new media practices.
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Rural initiatives
Highlighting new projects by organisations located in Aberdeenshire, Cumbria, Devon, Dumfries, Fife, Mull, Lancashire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, and Western Isles. “There is, in truth, nothing essentially backward-looking, conservative or traditional in rural culture. There are too many innovators, in too […]
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Murray Martin
30 Years of Side Gallery
Until 10 November
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Eye in the sky
Nottingham-based Reactor’s newly-commissioned, site-specific project, The Tetra Phase set in Manchester’s The Old Fire Station beside Piccadilly Station employs CCTV to offer a unique perspective. Set in this disused historic building – known only as The Station – it presents […]
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Floating world
Initiated by Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons in 2003, the aim of Floating world is to identify ways in which artists can disseminate their ideas widely using the medium of artists’ books.
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Our survey says
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
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Rare diamonds: A beginners’ guide to the art market
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
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Funding news
Artists and artists’ support agencies have benefited from recent Arts Council England funding rounds.
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Frieze projects
Presented annually at Frieze Art Fair, the curatorial programme consists of site-specific interventions and installations, performance, debate and conversation through Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.
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On the cover – 2007 July
Jessica Preston, Circles & Cones, 3D textiles, cotton, 2007.
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Open space
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
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a-n Magazine June 2007
Contents include: European collaboration and cultural diversity: in news a conference in Estonia, commissions for Subdoh Gupta, Rashid Rana, and comment on the 8th Sharjah Biennial. Simon Zimmerman asks if you can afford not to visit a new website on pensions for artists. PDF version [size 7.5MB]. Requires pdf reader.
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Sculpture prize
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
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Radical positions
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
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British Council cuts
The British Council plans to redeploy a third of the currently money spent in Europe to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Opportunity or rip off?
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
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Public liability
I understand a-n is researching the minefield of public liability insurance for visual artists.
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In limbo
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s Limbo-Land is a multi-media installation focused around the space of oblivion, confinement, or transition.
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Sustainable studios
A £3m investment to Scottish studio development organisation Wasps is designed to make them self-supporting in five years, and no longer dependent on arts revenue funding. A new partnership with the Scottish Arts Council will transform Wasps into one of […]
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Editorial – 2007 February
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?
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Artists fiddled while the planet burned: Can art save the planet?
Every age rewrites its history in its own image. Each age produces art that reflects that image, whether consciously or not.
