The Platform Award is an annual initiative involving five galleries that provides professional exhibiting opportunities for graduates in the South East of England. As the first of three shows at Modern Art Oxford opens, Richard Taylor finds out more.
Building up to the release of Bob & Roberta Smith’s feature film on 21 August, an exhibition of Art Party memorabilia opens tomorrow Saturday 9 August in Scarborough.
Memory, permanence and motorcycle counterculture are on the agenda this week as we take in Phil Root’s ‘erasure’ works in Exeter, Richard Bernstein’s magazine cover art in London and Charlie Woolley’s continuing exploration of the avatar in Plymouth.
Can art be truly contemporary if it doesn’t embrace and address the digital world? After hearing strong and polarized reviews from friends, Linda Pittwood visits the Serpentine Sackler’s current digital installation by Ed Atkins and finds something genuinely original.
A 12-hour ‘jamming symposium’ in Dundee seeks to explore artists’ collaborations in Scotland through a series of gigs, performances, screenings and readings.
Olivier Castel, Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Jesse Darling , and Alice Theobald have been named as the four artists to take part in The Future, Wysing Arts Centre’s residency programme this autumn.
As Glasgow prepares for the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Celtic Park tonight, Chris Sharratt takes a look at Jim Lambie’s new public art piece in the city’s east end, and some of the other visual arts activity taking place during the Games.
This week’s must-see shows include a group exhibition exploring urban anxiety in Manchester, a retrospective of German émigré Gego in Leeds, and a fresh look at the work of Shelagh Wakely in Camden.
1.Yes, I saw both in one day, so an interesting juxtaposition.
Summer is here and what better way to celebrate than to avoid the sun and head straight to your local gallery. We’ve selected some of the best exhibitions coming up over the next few months, from large-scale blockbusters to smaller but no less important shows across the country.
The third page in visual correspondence for Revolve:R. Some of the works will be on show at Choisi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, from 6 July to 13 September. If you’re in the neighbourhood this summer I hope you can drop by. […]
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
Follow the progress of my residency with Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. The residency will see the development of participatory cross-stitch project, as well as a large scale cross-stitch piece by the artist.
Last week saw the official launch of Generation, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art in the country, with blockbuster summer shows opening in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Chris Sharratt reports.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier July start date and a refreshed approach, Laura Robertson finds out what has changed at the UK’s biennial of contemporary art.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a stand-out Glasgow show of new work as part of Generation in Scotland, to something spooky going on in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.
