Crowdsourced from the ideas of Middlesbrough and Teeside residents through a series of workshops and open calls, mima’s current exhibition Localism is about reasserting the importance of the local in both the development of society and the international art world.
Alice Cunningham’s solo exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, includes new works in marble developed while she was recipient of the 2014 Brian Mercer Stone Carving Residency in Pietrasanta, Italy. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about how she worked with a specialist stone carving studio to create the four works included in the show.
Over the next month, Sluice_ will be posting video footage of its recent talks programme which took place during Sluice_2015 in London, and looked at a diverse range of topics including public art, copyright and the abstract revival.
Liverpool-based artist Emma Sumner reports from two recent community arts focused events in the city, a Temporary Parliament tasked with selecting the winner of the 25,000 Euro Visible Award for ‘socially engaged practices in a global context’, and a conference organised by Liverpool Biennial which looked to learn from the legacy of community arts projects in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art.
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
For his first major commission in the UK, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has created an installation in the grounds of a disused church in Bristol that will be alive with performances and discussion day-and-night for 552 hours. Rowan Lear reports from the opening weekend.
Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Sam Thorne, currently artistic director of Tate St Ives, takes over position from Alex Farquharson who is leaving to become new head of Tate Britain.
A host of well-known faces from the arts, film and TV are featured in the visual campaign for Panic! What Happened to Social Mobility in the Arts?
Four artists who create work deemed to enrich the visual experience of our urban spaces have been shortlisted for the £10,000 award.
The Mayor of London says planners and developers need to put culture at the forefront of city developments, and uses new report to show them how.
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation has announced the shortlist for the $100,000 biennial prize, with British artist Mark Leckey and Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera among the six finalists.
Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the panel of judges who will select the shortlist and overall winner of the UK’s longest-established painting prize, which is currently open for applications until 9 November 2015.
After a request for a bulk order of Lego was turned down by the company, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been Instagramming about his response.
The Istanbul Biennial has had a troubled few years. In 2013 it was embroiled in controversy over its reaction to political demonstrations in the city’s Taksim Square, while the current 14th edition arrived at a time of growing political tension in the country. As it draws to a close this week and Turkey prepares to go to the polls in a snap election, Dany Louise argues that this international biennial has failed to respond to the urgent and compelling context it finds itself in.
This week’s selection includes a site-specific video installation in London reflecting on history, landscape and catastrophic events, a major show of iconic works by American artist Cy Twombly in Bexhill, and an exhibition of artistic tributes at an artist-led space in Yorkshire.
This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes a debate, a symposium, and exhibitions in Cambridge, Darlington, London, Manchester and Newcastle.
Arts Council England has awarded six Creative People and Places projects over £5 million between them to build on the successes of their community-embedded arts programmes.
The art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth top this year’s ArtReview Power 100, which lists those judged to be the most influential people in the international art world.
Artist and AIR Council member Joseph Young attended the recent Europe-wide IAA conference in Pilsen, Czech Republic, where he was speaking about the Paying Artists campaign. He reports from the home of Pilsner lager on three days of discussion, debate and far too many procedural matters.
A recently opened skatepark in Everton Park, Liverpool is the result of a Liverpool Biennial commission of the South Korean artist Koo Jeong A, working with Wheelscape Skateparks and a host other agencies and community groups in the city. Laura Robertson takes a look at this luminous living sculpture and finds out more from the artist.
London-based Haroon Mirza is the first British artist to receive the biennial award which honours those influenced by the late American sculptor Alexander Calder.
A new series of conversation events in London, produced by Artquest and part-programmed with a-n and Axisweb, will ask ‘how could the art world perform better for artists?’
Artist’s installation of a ‘pseudo-shamanic hut’ is the winner of the £5000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in Stoke-on-Trent.
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