For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.
Jerwood Open Forest, a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England, has announced two major commissions totalling £60,000.
The American land artist Nancy Holt, best known for her 1976 piece Sun Tunnels and her collaborations with Robert Smithson, has died at the age of 75.
The Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value has embarked on a two-year project to gather ‘evidence and arguments’ about investment and engagement in our cultural lives. We report from the first of the Commission’s ‘provocation events’ and ask why, despite a growing consensus around the importance of culture, cuts and more cuts are still the order of the day.
Kate Brindley will be returning to Bristol to take up a new post at the city’s high-profile centre for contemporary arts.
A skeletal, riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are confirmed as the latest works to take their place on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
20 free delegate passes, specifically for emerging independent artists, have been made available to February’s No Boundaries symposium on the role of culture in 21st century society. But applicants need to be quick – the deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 11 February.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a major Sarah Lucas retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow to Bettina Buck and Marie Lund’s site-specific interventions at Spacex, Exeter.
Does joining with higher education institutions bring a promise of financial stability for cash-strapped arts organisations, alongside an increase in audiences? a-n Director Susan Jones reports from an Arts Council England conference that sketched out a new landscape for the contemporary arts.
A new batch of research has just been published as part of a-n and AIR’s ongoing Paying Artists campaign.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.
Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands announced as the three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award for artists working in three dimensions.
LOCWS International announces its next programme of temporary public art commissions, with 13 new works from artists including Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith and Ross Sinclair.
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition, The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, developed from a residency at the University of Oxford and culminates in a symposium on World TB Day. She talks about the ‘curious journey’ that led to her scientific and artistic exploration of this highly infectious, but curable, killer.
Peckham Platform launches its new vision as an independent charity with the opening of Ruth Beale’s participatory installation, Bookbed. We talk to the artist and the organisation’s executive director Emily Druiff about libraries, socially-engaged practice and being a creative educational platform.
Artists talking blogger Stuart Mayes is celebrating seven years using the platform, which he says has provided him with an important thinking space and access to a supportive community of fellow artists.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Matt Stokes’ elegiac films in Blackpool, Pop Art pioneer Patrick Caulfield in Kendal, and Chinese animator Sun Xun in London.
This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.
Katie Paterson has won the visual art category at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards, with Tracey Emin receiving The Outstanding Achievement Award.
Following a public vote, the 10 winning institutions have been revealed who will each be hosting a different contemporary artist for the Museums at Night weekend in May.
For the latest instalment of our regular Pictured series focusing on art books, Tim Clark reflects on Veramente, the career-spanning monograph from pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, Guido Guidi.
Disabled artists organisation Shape and Artsadmin have been awarded £1.5million by Arts Council England to deliver Unlimited, a new three-year programme of commissions. With the launch of its Unlimited Allies scheme, it’s now looking for help and support so that the scheme can deliver a long-term legacy.
Creative Scotland has announced £9.4million of capital funding for 12 organisations in Scotland, including Collective Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, Cove Park and Hospitalfield Arts.
a-n’s popular professional development programme, designed to give artists and visual arts freelancers the confidence and know-how to move their practice and projects forward, continues into 2014 with a series of seminars and workshops in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Leicestershire.
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