For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.
A Turner Prize winner and three former nominees make up the selection panel for this year’s open platform aimed at final-year students and recent graduates from UK art schools.
As the Jerwood Open Forest competition moves to its next stage with an exhibition of five proposals opening in London, an additional £30,000 commission prize has been announced thanks to new support from Arts Council England.
This week, representatives from across the fields of labour, sociology, economy, law, and arts administration, come together in New York to write the policy for W.A.G.E. Certification.
Arts Council England has set out its agenda for arts investment for 2015-18, and alongside an announcement that the National Portfolio Organisation budget will combine Lottery funding with government grant-in-aid for the first time, ACE also says it is expecting NPOs to pay artists fairly.
For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.
From two-channel video work at the Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, to an installation comprising sculpture and painting in a small gallery near Glasgow, this week’ selection is eclectic and intriguing.
A House of Commons Select Committee has opened an inquiry into the work of Arts Council England and its regional funding policies.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave wins Best Film award at the Golden Globes.
Three artists have been shortlisted for the seventh annual Liverpool Art Prize.
For our first snapshot of 2014 looking at what’s happening globally in the art world, we visit Italy, Denmark, Hong Kong, Sweden and Singapore.
The Connect10 shortlist, matching artists with heritage and arts venues for Museums at Night events in May 2014, has been unveiled, ahead of two weeks of public voting beginning next week.
Ikon Gallery will be looking back at key periods from its 50 year history as it celebrates its half century this year, starting with two exhibitions by Jamal Penjweny and John Salt.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
12 Years A Slave, the new feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, has been nominated for 10 BAFTAs, including best film and director.
A design duo, an architecture practice, two ceramicists and a glass artist make up the boundary-pushing shortlist of this year’s Jerwood Makers Open.
Bristol-based contemporary art organisation Spike Island has appointed Turner Contemporary’s Lhosa Daly as its new Deputy Director, while Alice Motard joins as Curator.
A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.
At a-n, we know that small awards to artists specifically for self-determined professional development make a big difference. That’s why we’re extending the artists’ bursary programme in 2014.
For the first Now Showing of 2014, our exhibition selections range from JMW Turner at the Scottish National Gallery to David Tremlett at the Ikon in Birmingham.
Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
In the final questionnaire in our series featuring the thoughts and experiences of artists and other arts professionals, a-n’s Director reflects on how 2013 was for her and the organisation.
The General Secretary of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) takes stock of a challenging and exciting 125th anniversary year for the organisation.
The Director of Jerwood Charitable Foundation looks back on a busy 2013 of brilliant new collaborations, and looks forward to 2014 being a year in which more money goes directly to artists.
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