Southampton City Art Gallery’s collection, which includes work by Turner and Monet and an impressive line-up of twentieth century British artists such as Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Chris Offili and Gillian Wearing, is under threat from the city council proposal to sell parts of it off to fund a new heritage centre.
A run down of this month’s prizes and awards.
London’s Whitechapel Gallery reopens in April following a
News of gallery developments, expansions and relocations.
South Central is a not-for-profit contemporary art space that started in July and is based in the Southgate Centre shopping mall, Bath, an area due for redevelopment.
The programme Climate Change: Cultural Change took place in June, 2006 in Newcastle-Gateshead, curated by Helix Arts with CarbonNeutralNewcastle.
July sees the launch of a major new £1 million commissioning initiative.
2006 is the sixtieth anniversary of the Arts Council Collection, the largest loan collection of post-war and contemporary British art in the world.
ArtSway, the contemporary visual arts centre in the New Forest, has announced that it has completed on the freehold purchase of its gallery and grounds, securing the future of the organisation and offering increased resources for contemporary visual arts in […]
News in October that twenty-three leading artists are to donate artworks to the Tate collection prompted a flurry of debate across the visual arts world. It raised the issue of whether it is a good thing for artists, at any […]
Paul Glinkowski talks to artist Jem Finer about his ongoing project Longplayer, and to his collaborator James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel.
The BBC has commissioned a new work from internationally renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, due for installation next year. Entitled Breathing the light sculpture will be positioned above the new BBC Broadcasting House complex and will act as a memorial […]
Jane Watt discusses contemporary approaches to the creation of public monuments.
Kate Day, curator of contemporary craft at Manchester Art Gallery, talks to Amanda Fielding about her work. First in a new six-part series ‘Crossing over’ focusing on arts professionals and how they work with artists.
John Cornall profiles the international art college.
Brigid Howarth investigates ways in which artists are making work and collaborating with industry.