The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
“Self-critical, vital and engaging,” say the judges of this year’s John Moores Prize on the state of contemporary painting in Britain.
Following Tuesday’s NPO announcement by Arts Council England, we’ve been looking at the figures to get a clearer picture of who’s gained and who’s lost out.
Last week saw the official launch of Generation, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art in the country, with blockbuster summer shows opening in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Chris Sharratt reports.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
Arts Council England has announced the 670 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio of regularly-funded organisations. Included are some new additions, while 58 organisations leave the portfolio entirely.
a-n The Artists Information Company has successfully secured continued support from Arts Council England as part of its National Portfolio of funded organisations 2015-18.
Winners at the International Print Biennale Print Awards include Bob and Roberta Smith, who receives a £6,000 cash prize.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a stand-out Glasgow show of new work as part of Generation in Scotland, to something spooky going on in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.
This week, London’s disability-led arts organisation Shape launches a new networking event to bring disabled and non-disabled artists together. We talk to programme coordinator Ben Fredericks about the project.
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
Japan Drug by António Júlio Duarte, the new title from Portuguese publishers Pierre von Kleist Editions, excels with its focus on quiet and luminous photographs depicting a country at the dawn of a new millennium.
The leader of one of England’s National Portfolio Organisations speaks out about transparency, whistle blowing, the curse of arts buildings, and why artists feel disenfranchised from the arts funding system.
Artists Matt Durran, Zoe Laughlin and Clare Twomey are among the five new Trustees appointed to the Crafts Council board.
The 25th BP Portrait Award has been won by Thomas Ganter for his painting of a homeless German man.
Now in its tenth year, Embassy Gallery’s Annuale festival in Edinburgh celebrates artist-led collaboration in Scotland’s capital and beyond.
As cuts continue to bite, arts organisations are plugging the funding gap by replacing paid staff – such as gallery invigilators – with unpaid volunteers. We look at three galleries in Liverpool and Bristol that have done just that, and assess what this growing trend could mean for both individual artists and the UK’s arts ecology.
This week’s selections range from an exploration of ‘fabric’ trends in art at a small gallery in London, to The Hepworth, Wakefield’s first major survey show of Franz West’s work since his death two years ago.
With less than three months to go to the Scottish independence referendum, what does Creative Scotland’s recently published Annual Plan 2014-15 say about the country’s approach to public investment in the arts? Johnny Gailey argues that it represents a significant divergence from the UK narrative of funding cuts, economic benefits and philanthropy.
The winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is artist and photographer Tabitha Jussa.
Arts figures including Brett Rogers of The Photographers’ Gallery and Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery are among those to receive OBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.
Arts Council Wales has announced that photographic artist Helen Sear will be representing Wales at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
A Glasgow city centre bar is hosting a week of discussion and debate around the Scottish Referendum, including an evening event hosted by the Scottish Artists Union.
Lucy Lippard, Walid Raad and Allora & Calzadilla are among the 100 signatories of an open letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time’s Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), in response to it showing at a university with links to the Israeli military.
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