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NOW SHOWING #79: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s selections include contemporary abstract paintings in London, a feature-length film installation in Sheffield, and in Edinburgh a look at two once famous and now largely forgotten Scottish painters of the 1940s.

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NOW SHOWING #78: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s selection includes the UK premiere in Manchester of a major piece of Chinese animation, an artist-led exploration of wireless technology in Croydon, and contemporary ceramic art in Gateshead.

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PICTURED #36: Andy Sewell, Something Like a Nest

Andy Sewell’s self published Something like a Nest reveals the unique yet odd appearance of the English countryside when it comes up against modern life. Tim Clark celebrates the book’s quiet sophistication in the first PICTURED column of 2015.

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Open exhibitions and entry fees: price worth paying or licence to exploit artists?

Open exhibitions are becoming an increasingly common aspect of the visual arts landscape, with high-profile big hitters such as the BP Portrait Award and Royal Academy Summer Show joined by a growing number of smaller-scale shows. But with most charging an entry fee and with no guarantee of being included, are artists simply being asked to subsidise the sector with their own money? Jack Hutchinson investigates.

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Blood Swept Lands artists receive MBEs

Co-creators of the Tower of London ‘poppy’ installation, artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, have been recognised in the 2015 New Year’s Honours list, alongside outgoing Arts Council England CEO Alan Davey and Metal founder Jude Kelly.

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2014 – How was it for you? #10: Jeanie Scott

In the final instalment of our ten-part end-of-year series, a-n’s new director – who took over in September following a three-month handover period – looks back over the last 12 months and looks forward to doing more for artists in 2015.

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2014 – How was it for you? #9: Lucy Byatt

The director of Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath, Scotland – which will be curating the Scottish pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, alongside its ongoing programme of artists’ residencies – reflects on a busy year of new partnerships and future possibilities.

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2014 – How was it for you? #8: Elena Thomas

As our end-of-year series continues, the Birmingham-based artist and active a-n blogger describes a time that has seen her quit a longstanding job, grow in confidence as an artist and secure funding for her year-long project, Nine Women.

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2014 – How was it for you? #6: Craig Barnes

Artist Craig Barnes – who in 2014 completed his project to restore a 1960s Futuro house, exhibiting it on the roof of Matt’s Gallery, London – looks back on a year of small miracles and big emotions.

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