This week sees major degree shows opening across the UK, including exhibitions in Bournemouth, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Plymouth, and the West Midlands.
Following the publication of its general election manifesto, the party was contacted by journalists questioning the lack of any reference to the arts or creative industries. Frances Richens reports for Arts Professional.
For the latest in our ongoing series looking at art scenes around the UK, Corby-based James Steventon takes a tour of Northamptonshire which also includes the former industrial towns of Northampton and Kettering in its borders.
Market Gallery’s recent Free Market symposium – supported by an a-n Artist Led Bursary – brought together thinkers and doers to discuss issues around ‘cultural resources in crisis’ and was in part informed by the Glasgow gallery’s own precarious situation. Chris Sharratt reports on three days of thinking beyond the usual.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including Renaissance drawing in Oxford, brand new sculpture in London and pioneering 19th century photography in Edinburgh.
Highlights from a-n’s busy Events section and this week including exhibitions online and in London, Pembrokeshire and Tucson, Arizona.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Italian court ruling ousts five top museum directors.
a-n members Bob Gelsthorpe and Jacki Cairns have visited degree shows in Swansea, Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Cardiff for the first of our Instagram takeovers of the 2017 degree shows season.
London-based artist Kimathi Donkor is among 12 artists featured in the Diaspora Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, presented by the International Curators Forum and University of the Arts London. He talks about the importance of the British black arts movement in the 1980s, history painting, and the idea of diaspora.
This week we highlight 12 degree shows across the UK, including openings in Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle, Brighton and Leeds.
Artists Jenny Brook and Kate Gilman Brundrett are using their new workspace in a former village school house in Cumbria as a space for exhibitions, residencies and community art activity. Pippa Koszerek reports.
Canadian artist Adam Basanta has won this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize at York Art Gallery.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including Katsushika Hokusai prints in London, Phyllida Barlow and Michael Armitage in Margate, and Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood’s sea paintings in Cambridge.
The campaign group’s PDF prompt sheet suggests three key questions to ask parliamentary candidates.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Guardian reveals Facebook’s policy on sex and nudity in art, Scotland begins consultation on new ‘cultural strategy’.
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week featuring exhibitions in Huddersfield, Hull, London and Norwich.
The new artwork by artist Kevin Hunt draws attention to some of the best activity being facilitated by emerging independent artists and curators right now in the UK.
19 artists from across London-based charity Bow Arts’ 13 studio sites have been chosen for the annual exhibition which this year is curated by East End-based sculptor Alex Chinneck.
The Turner prize-winning artist revealed on Monday that he is responsible for posters that riff on prime minister Theresa May’s often-used phrase.
Selected from listings in the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017, 11 degree shows opening across the UK.
Manchester poet Tony Walsh’s reading of his poem, This is the Place, was a defiant riposte to Monday night’s Manchester Arena bombing.
The 20th edition of the Mostyn Open in Llandudno features a broad range of international artists working in a variety of media, including painting, video and metalwork.
Two petitions challenging the closure of two of Falmouth University’s long-standing arts courses have been handed in at the university’s Penryn Campus.
Being a mother of young children and continuing your art practice is incredibly difficult. Inspired by a recent symposium exploring the challenges of being a ‘mother artist’, Frances Bossom – who presents a ‘Proposal for a Guide for Art Parents’ at June’s a-n Assembly event in Bristol – calls for an approach that values the complex reality of motherhood.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including drawing in London, painting and print in Glasgow, and video in Edinburgh.
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