Lucy Lippard, Walid Raad and Allora & Calzadilla are among the 100 signatories of an open letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time’s Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), in response to it showing at a university with links to the Israeli military.
In the run up to the launch of the Paying Artists Campaign, a-n has published two new research reports covering international models for artists’ fees and the history of Exhibition Payment Right in the UK.
This week (11-17 April), we’re getting agitated in Limerick with EVA International, celebrating Van Gogh at a new gallery in Arles, and visiting Cologne for the 46th edition of the world’s oldest art fair.
New Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory has stamped her personality on the festival’s programme, but the sixth edition of this biennial with a difference still retains its unique character and sense of place.
This week (4-10 April) we take a trip to the 12th Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, worry about modern living in Pinheiros, Brazil, and ponder the impact of digitalisation in Düsseldorf.
For this week’s (28 March – 3 April) snapshot of international art events, we’re in Milan, Paris, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro.
The lead up to the 19th Sydney Biennale has been marked by artists’ protests over the business activities of its founding sponsor, eventually leading to the Biennale severing links with its funder of 40 years. Now, with the Biennale open to the public and all but two of the original artists taking part, Moira Jeffrey considers the art, the context and the quiet steeliness of its curator.
As economic sanctions bite and international condemnation continues over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Manifesta 10 announces its programme and its curator declares that the art must go on in St Petersburg.
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen’s solo presentation, commissioned and curated by Arbroath’s Hospitalfield Arts, will represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
“A formidably inventive sculptor whose work remains urgent,” say Selection Committee as Sarah Lucas is chosen to represent Britain at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
This week’s snapshot of international art action sees us talking about revolution in Finland, exploring the virtual and the real in the Netherlands, contemporary Arab art in the USA, and going deep into the Congo in Australia.
The recent Europa Re-Imagined symposium in Cardiff was the latest event organised by the European Prospects project, exploring issues of experience and identity through photography and contemporary art in Europe. Rory Duckhouse reports.
After ongoing protests from participating artists, including the withdrawal of nine, the board of the Sydney Biennale has announced that it is severing its links with founding sponsor Transfield.
Following the news last week that five artists had withdrawn from the Sydney Biennale in protest at the activities of its sponsor, Transfield, another four artists have now announced their withdrawal.
Prix Ars Electronica, the annual international competition for artists working with technology which last year received over 4000 submissions, has extended its deadline for 2014 entries.
For our latest snapshot of what’s happening internationally in the next seven days of art, we’re in Morocco, China, France and the USA.
Five artists have announced their withdrawal from the 19th Sydney Biennale in protest at founding sponsor Transfield’s role in the mandatory detention of asylum seekers.
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.
This week our snapshot of what’s happening internationally finds us in Madrid, Barcelona, Beirut, Zurich and New York.
This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.
It’s been a week that has seen a multi-million pound sponsorship deal at Tate Modern and controversy and column inches about a chair, a Russian socialite and a publicity picture of questionable taste. But is there a link between the two stories?
This week’s snapshot of international art action takes us to Trondheim, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris.
This week our global snapshot takes us to The Netherlands, San Francisco, Poland, Italy and Shenzhen in China.
