The international curator and former director of Liverpool Biennial looks back on a year that, amongst many other things, saw him curate the third Folkestone Triennial.
While strategies to pay artists better are forging ahead in the UK, this vital issue is also on high on the agenda in some other countries. Susan Jones reports on Working Artists: aspects of art and labour, a recent conference in South Korea which she also spoke at.
Profiles, blogs and commentary on artists working beyond the UK or bringing their perspectives to UK working.
The three artists shortlisted for the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s third triennial prize have been announced.
The French-Albanian artist Anri Sala has been awarded the sixth Vincent Award, which recognises European contemporary art.
A symposium in Seoul this week will address the issues of artists’ fees in Korea and will include discussion of a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
Christian Jankowski has been announced as chief curator of Manifesta 11 in Zurich, the first time an artist has curated the roving European biennial.
The British artist Haroon Mirza has won the fourth Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, which acknowledges artists whose work is felt to be particularly innovative and experimental.
Gulflabor, a group of international artists, have stepped up their call for the Guggenheim to enforce stringent labour and human rights regulations in the construction of its Abu Dhabi museum, with a string of public actions.
A new annual prize for art and film, launched by Amsterdam-based EYE film museum and the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, will honour artists and filmmakers who have successfully brought the two worlds together.
The issue of artists’ pay and exploitation in the US is prompting a variety of responses that question what it means to be an artist in the current economic climate. Abigail Satinsky, associate director at Chicago’s Threewalls gallery, surveys the landscape and asks whether we need to look at how we value and define art and artists.
Manchester’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art has appointed a new director, Zoe Dunbar, who will join the organisation in December.
The director of Tate takes the top spot in the contemporary art magazine’s annual list of global art world players.
The title and concept of the curatorial theme for the 56th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has been announced and sees Okwui Enwezor tackling global politics and disorder, and the disconnect between how things are and how they appear.
As the art world descends on London for the 12th Frieze Art Fair, we take a snapshot of art fair activity happening across the capital.
Over 24hrs into experiencing a new continent (South America), a new environment (the Uber Uber Corporate Conference) and a language that ‘belongs’ to many countries ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Portuguese_Language_Countries ) I am more sure than ever that my practice exists within an intra-silo space. […]
I’ve been invited to participate in the ‘World Congress on Solid Waste Management’ in São Paulo, Brazil, from 8th – 11th September 2014. What follows is a response.
The prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is to be the first writer to contribute to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
The Jeff Koons retrospective at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York has been disrupted by an artist writing an ‘X’ on the gallery wall in his own blood.
I was invited to take part in the International Summer School, which took place at Bury Art Gallery and Sculpture Centre last week (11th – 15th August). It was advertised to be the following; The moments when artists coming together […]
An artist lead stone carving symposium based in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Now in its second year, the Residency for Artists on Hiatus seeks to free its participants from the pressures of the ‘capital A art world’ by providing space for artists to not make art. Michaela Nettell finds out more.
Kasper Konig, curator of Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg, has been describing the pressures of curating an art biennial in Putin’s Russia.
Stephanie Rosenthal, chief curator at the Hayward Gallery, has been announced as the new artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney.
