This weekend, Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is celebrating its temporary closure for a major redevelopment. We talk to its director about the need to grow, planning for the future and the importance of a good send off.
As Australia prepares to go to the polls, a British artist has taken to her blog to complain about her treatment by the Australian Greens – a party that says it will support young and emerging artists.
As the exhibition TO-MORROW or TO-DAY opens simultaneously in Leeds and Ghent, we find out why linking up with other artist-led organisations is so important.
The ten artists shortlisted for the Art Across the City 2014 Public Art Open Submission have been announced, ahead of the latest instalment of the 2013 programme in Swansea next month.
This week’s must-see shows include images of witches and witchcraft in Edinburgh, Mass Observation photography in London and artist-grown cucumbers in Leeds.
A major new programme for 2013 and 2014 has been launched by Scottish Print Network to support new work by leading artists from Scotland and Commonwealth countries.
The Manchester Contemporary, which describes itself as ‘the largest fair of critically engaging visual art outside of London’, announces galleries and project space initiative.
A survey in Scotland has found that people who engage in culture are more likely to report good health.
The Institute of Physics unveils Covariance – a spectacular installation by artist Lyndall Phelps, developed through collaborative discussions with particle physicist Dr Ben Still. We talk to the pair about how art and science tackle the big questions of the universe.
For her solo show at the Grundy Art Gallery, New York-based artist Zoe Beloff has created a Freudian dreamland that draws on the famous psychoanalyst’s visits to Coney Island and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The result, reports Bob Dickinson, is a thrill ride into a fictional past.
The Design and Artists Copyright Society warns that artists could face a loss of income following changes to licensing mandates, and is urging artists to compete an online survey as part of its work to secure payments.
A series of recently unveiled artworks commissioned for Cardiff Airport hope to improve its battered image and help promote tourism, business and the Welsh economy.
This week’s selection includes figurative painting in Edinburgh, site-specific sonicness in Sheffield and a bit of English Magic in London.
Continuing our series focusing on visually-rich art books, Tim Clark picks up Marion Gronier’s Glorious, a collection of colour portraits of travelling circus performers, and finds an intense and intriguing study of human presence.
Renowned international art figure Kasper König has been appointed Chief Curator of 2014’s Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg.
A portrait of Glasgow gallerists Toby Webster and Andrew Hamilton, an ‘urban burka’ fashioned from a pair of training shoes, and a woodcut reflecting on the death of a grandparent are among works shortlisted for £30,000 prize.
After a break last year for the Olympics, the sixth edition of the Hackney WickED Art Festival takes place this weekend in London’s East End. We talk to the people who make it happen.
One of London’s best known art meccas faces an uncertain future following the decision by Westminster Council to redevelop the area into luxury apartments.
This weekend’s Cove Park Open Day is a chance to meet artists in residence and to bid farewell to the centre’s current building before re-development work starts in 2014. We talk to Director Julian Forrester about what’s in store this weekend, and beyond.
West Bromwich arts centre to cease current activities on 30 November.
Mark Ravenhill’s recent speech at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe sounded the death knell for state subsidy of the arts. Scottish Review editor Kenneth Roy takes the playwright’s views – and their misrepresentation in the right-wing press – to task.
Five of the leading professional subject associations for art, dance, drama and music are working together to ensure that arts teachers are heard in discussions around education and arts teaching.
Followers of @an_artnews composed over 100 tweets in a lively debate sparked by the Art Everywhere project.
This week’s must-see shows range from the intense, tropical canvases of Peter Doig in Edinburgh to sound art in South London.
For the third of our features looking at summer shows across the UK, we talk to 2009 Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer about her Mount Stuart commission, a series of poetic and precise interventions in this neo-gothic house on the Isle of Bute.
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