Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest, Arion Gábor Kudász’s new monograph maps the logic of memory through a photographic exploration of his late mother’s personal belongings.
A pop-up city, anti-surveillance makeovers and talking lamp posts – the Manchester-based conference and festival of digital culture has announced details of its 2014 Art and Live programmes.
From 23 applications, 11 artists have received funding in the second round of a-n’s Re:view bursary scheme, which supports artists to develop their practice through £500-£1,000 bursaries.
A new blog initiated by the artist Emily Speed invites artists to map and explore how their networks and opportunities are made through the process of making work.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes abstract drawing in London, two titans of modern sculpture in Warwickshire, and speculative future-gazing in Cambridge.
A new EU agreement that guarantees artists an equitable share from the resale of their works on the art market has been signed by 17 organisations, including major British auction houses.
Our snapshot of international art action for the end of February finds us in Nimes, Stockholm, Graz, San Francisco and Madrid.
Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.
Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.
AIR Council welcomes three new artist members to its ranks as the a-n/AIR Paying Artists Campaign gathers momentum.
Revolutionary Arts’ director Dan Thompson and DHA Communications’ Head of Policy and Research Tamsin Cox have joined a-n’s board as non-executive directors.
This week’s selection includes a major survey of the work of American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia in Wakefield, Tate’s Richard Hamilton blockbuster in London, and the paintings of a young Welsh artist in Cardiff.
Steve McQueen’s film about the horrors of slavery has won the Best Picture award at the BAFTAs, with the film’s star Chiwetel Ejiofor picking up Best Actor.
This week our snapshot of what’s happening internationally finds us in Madrid, Barcelona, Beirut, Zurich and New York.
For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.
Jerwood Open Forest, a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England, has announced two major commissions totalling £60,000.
The American land artist Nancy Holt, best known for her 1976 piece Sun Tunnels and her collaborations with Robert Smithson, has died at the age of 75.
Kate Brindley will be returning to Bristol to take up a new post at the city’s high-profile centre for contemporary arts.
A skeletal, riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are confirmed as the latest works to take their place on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
20 free delegate passes, specifically for emerging independent artists, have been made available to February’s No Boundaries symposium on the role of culture in 21st century society. But applicants need to be quick – the deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 11 February.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a major Sarah Lucas retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow to Bettina Buck and Marie Lund’s site-specific interventions at Spacex, Exeter.
A new batch of research has just been published as part of a-n and AIR’s ongoing Paying Artists campaign.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.
Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands announced as the three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award for artists working in three dimensions.
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