An early day motion has been tabled in Parliament to recognise the findings of two recent reports highlighting the contribution of arts and culture to the UK economy.
This week’s selection features abstract painting in Hastings and a photography show with a difference in Birmingham.
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s popular Events section, includes animations at Torre Abbey, the sounds of the sea in Plymouth, and live-action role play at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios.
The campaign to ‘save the future of creativity in schools’ is back, following recent proposals by education secretary Nicky Morgan that would exclude creative subjects from new school accountability measures.
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
The sixth edition of the international photography prize, created to promote debate around global sustainability, features a shortlist of 12 photographers addressing the theme of ‘disorder’.
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been announced as the first artist-in-residence for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
The London and Mull-based artist Charles Avery discusses his ongoing project, The Islanders, and its evolution for a new site-specific commission as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival.
ISIS Arts in Newcastle upon Tyne has launched Corners Live, a new digital platform for networked engagement with contemporary art. Richard Taylor unpicks how it plans to grow and make artworks thrive.
As part of his 18-month Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency, artist Yuri Pattison has been looking at the world of tech start ups, hack spaces and peer-to-peer sharing. Prior to the launch of a new website and series of digital sculptures, Michaela Nettell met him to discuss transparency, data and what contemporary art can learn from the networked society.
Directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon, Neck of the Woods stars Charlotte Rampling and features music by international concert pianist Hélène Grimaud. But does this Manchester International Festival production fulfill its potential? Chris Sharratt reports.
This week’s selection features a film installation exploring queer intergenerational relationships, an exhibition charting the emergence of contemporary art in China, and a glimpse into how, for a short period during the 1950s, St Ives challenged the then contemporary art capitals of Paris and New York.
The public are invited behind the scenes of the burgeoning Bermondsey Street art scene as galleries, studios and project spaces open their doors for the Bermondsey Art Trail this Saturday.
Following an introduction by Manchester International Festival Director Alex Poots and its Artistic advisor Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013, artist Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Pärt were inspired to make new work dedicated to each other. Bob Dickinson attended the premiére of this new collaboration at Mancheter’s renovated Whitworth, and discovered one of the highlights so far of MIF 2015.
Digital archive to preserve over 1000 works of art charting history of disability arts from the 1970s to present day.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
The performance, video and installation artist discusses Hercules Rough Cut, his new commission for Bloomberg SPACE which explores empire, civilisation, London and language.
The recipients of the Jerwood Makers Open 2015 awards, which offers five artists commissions totalling £37,500 to realise significant new projects, are presenting the outcomes in an exhibition at Jerwood Space, London. Jack Hutchinson attended the preview and met the artists.
Following receipt of a £75,000 award from Arts Council England, Brighton’s ONCA Centre for Arts and Ecology will be launching eleven new projects over the next two years that explore how society and culture can respond to environmental change.
Julie McCalden reports on the outcomes of the recent project that set a team of eleven artists across five cities the task of ensuring artists’ voices were heard in the Paying Artists campaign during the lead up to the general election.
Over the course of this year’s Manchester International Festival, the top floor exhibition space of the Manchester Art Gallery will be occupied by Ed Atkins’ Performance Capture, a durational project revolving around the ongoing production of a single computer-animated video. Luke Healey takes a tour of the exhibition and speaks to the artist.
Tate Britain’s new series of regular exhibitions, Contemporary Projects, focuses on recent works by emerging artists who are not yet part of the gallery’s collection. Lizzie Carey-Thomas, curator of the inaugural exhibition The Weight of Data, speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the context, process and ideas behind the show.
Over £4 million in royalties to be redistributed to artists and their estates for the re-use of published artwork.
An ambitious new artist-led festival is taking place across Manchester and Salford this weekend, with studio spaces and major venues hosting a number of projects produced especially for the festival alongside, open studios across both cities. Bob Dickinson meets artists and festival directors Elisa Artesero, John Lynch and Roger Bygott to find out more.
Artists for Ikon event raises £785,375 for gallery’s artistic programme and new commissions.
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