Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Set against the backdrop of its Newcastle city centre building being lost to redevelopment, a recent two-day event at the artist-led NewBridge Project in Newcastle asked whether it was time for artists to ‘grow up’ and accept the new agenda of cuts, philanthropy and big business sponsorship. Artist Lesley Guy joined in the conversation and came to a different conclusion.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
As part of the year-long fig-2 show, which sees a new artist exhibiting every week at London’s ICA, the winner of the Student Open Call is Goldsmiths MFA student Manuel Mathieu.
Londoners are invited to join the internationally-renowned artists this Thursday on a walk through London in support of refugees.
The South African artist William Kentridge is a staple of international art biennials, a critically acclaimed art superstar known for his theatrical, thoughtful work. With an exhibition featuring two new films currently showing at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery, Dany Louise discovers more about the politics and processes behind his art.
Member-run organisation Making Art Work has organised Art Market, a day of artists’ stalls, performances and a charity art auction taking place in Maidstone, Kent.
Tom Harrison has been awarded the £8000 prize for his elevated depiction of the Singapore cityscape.
The UK’s longest-established painting prize is open for entries from now until 9 November 2015.
Almost 1000 organisations in 49 countries will be taking part in the annual event that sees museum and gallery curators answering the public’s questions on Twitter.
At the recent opening of the 13th Lyon Biennale, artists have been rewriting the interpretation panels for their work.
Artist wins award for apocalyptic film of building sites left empty and half built in austerity-hit Britain.
A brand new ‘art hostel’ is being developed in Leeds with artists involved in all aspects of the design and making. East Street Arts, the organisation behind the project, is asking for support to help pay artists to turn the building into a work of art.
This week’s selection includes ceramics and moving image in Birmingham, a science and art mashup in Newcastle, and the results of a year-long residency at the English National Opera in London.
For the Coastal Currents festival, Tod Hanson has created a site-specific work that covers the entire floor of the historic Durbar Hall in the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Dany Louise finds out about his process, inspiration and influences.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Writing in the London Evening Standard, London’s deputy mayor for education and culture has warned that the city is becoming too expensive for artists to live in.
To launch our new series of picture-focused articles, we take a look at Los Angeles-based USC Fisher Museum of Art’s current exhibition which explores the complex relationship between humans, the oceans, and the things we throw away.
As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days across England, six artists have been commissioned to produce site-specific work at the English Heritage site Fort Brockhurst in Gosport. Pippa Koszerek speaks to the artist and curator behind the Space Interrupted project.
This weekend at the fourth edition of Tramway’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival in Glasgow, Transmission Gallery presents the Film Open 2015 – a new touring programme of 20 films from five artists’ support networks in the UK.
This year’s London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel Gallery – the seventh since launching in 2009 – features over 90 exhibitors and a special focus on Scandinavian art publishing. Pippa Koszerek talks to Max Vickers, the fair’s coordinator.
In the first of a new monthly series focusing on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman – researcher at UWE Bristol’s Centre for Fine Print Research – introduces a screenprinted hardback that draws on Russian Constructivist graphics and features a specially commissioned poem by Benjamin Heathcote.
As crowdfunding is increasingly adopted by large arts organisations as a fast-track alternative to dwindling public funding, Henrietta Norton – co-founder of the early crowdfunding site WeDidThis – argues that the spirit of risk taking and innovation that inspired early adopters needs to be embraced by these high-profile newcomers.
The artist Olafur Eliasson is raising funds on Kickstarter to bring a newly developed, solar powered smartphone charger into production – and to change the world in the process
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