This week’s highlights include an attempt to save the endangered language of Polari, a show that uncovers how governments, intelligence agencies and corporations are using social media and drone technologies, and an exhibition that unpicks the enduring love affair between artists and nature.
To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday, the collaborative online artwork #dawnchorus365 will be creating its own virtual dawn chorus on Twitter. We find out more from one of the artists involved.
An international survey looking at the working and living conditions of socially-engaged, participatory and community artists launches today.
The Paying Artists Campaign, which will launch in May with its own designated website, intends to engage the arts-going public in the debate around artists’ value and fair remuneration for work.
Art students from Edinburgh, Leeds and Ghent form collective practice to deconstruct value systems of art in a fair of their own at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
Full programme details for the 7th Whitstable Biennale, featuring over 30 artists, have been announced.
The 48-page a-n Degree Shows Guide 2014 is the biggest yet, featuring more than 60 forthcoming shows across the UK, plus perspectives on this vital and exciting time from artists, curators, academics and graduating students. Available online via issuu it’s out now.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
Eight international projects are in the running for the £30,000 award to create a future-facing artwork for Bristol and beyond.
This week we take a walk to Walsall for a career-spanning survey of Richard Long’s prints, head for London to explore themes of image manufacture and exchange with Andreas Gursky, and catch Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward’s exhibition in Manchester charting the recent refurbishment of the city’s Central Library.
A new report published today by the researchers behind last year’s Rebalancing our Cultural Capital, reveals that Lottery funding of the arts in England is largely benefiting the wealthy to the detriment of the country’s poorest and least arts-engaged communities.
The Art Fund has announced the six finalists for this year’s £100,000 Museum of the Year prize, with art galleries dominating the shortlist.
Returning for its second year, this weekend’s London Gallery Day brings together more than 20 contemporary art spaces in the city’s EC1 and WC1 areas for a packed programme of exhibitions and events.
Now on its sixth edition, The Other Art Fair has a selection committee made up of artists and provides a platform for emerging talent to present and sell their work. Director Ryan Stanier explains its approach.
The main prizewinner and student prizewinner of the Oriel Davies Open 2014 have been announced.
The Northern Rock Foundation, a major funder of arts and community projects in the North East and Cumbria, has announced it is to close following the withdrawal of funding support from Virgin Money.
Shining a spotlight on former Yugoslavia’s 1980s’ counter-culture, Jo
Another 23 artists have been awarded funding in the latest round of a-n’s New collaborations bursary scheme, which supports critical and artistic development through collaborative working.
This week we get Somewhat Abstract in Nottingham, catch Charley Peters’ virtual show of interactive drawings online, and explore the relationship between the body and sculpture with Jonathan Baldock in Cardiff.
High House Artists’ Studios, the purpose-built development in Essex from Acme Studios and HAT Projects, has been announced as one of the RIBA East Regional Award winners.
John Wood and Paul Harrison exhibition launches 18th edition of Stroud’s contemporary arts festival.
It’s not exactly a vintage year for the highly-coveted Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, but one shortlisted artist in particular makes a bold statement for the award.
In the run up to the launch of the Paying Artists Campaign, a-n has published two new research reports covering international models for artists’ fees and the history of Exhibition Payment Right in the UK.
Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett have been announced as winners of the £20,000 Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: What Will They See of Me?
Bristol-based commissioning agency Situations has announced a national programme of live events and workshops looking at how international approaches to public art programming have developed during the past decade.
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