In Unlock Art: What’s So Funny? Tamsin Greig investigates how humour became central to many of the art movements of the past 100 years. The film examines how artists employed humour in their work to ridicule the status quo.
UK theatre company Forced Entertainment presents the UK premiere of their new performance, The Notebook, as part of After a War in the festival LIFT at Battersea Arts Centre in London.
SohoCreate opens next week, 4-6 June, for its inaugural creative festival. With an outstanding line-up of guests, including Rob Ryan, Michael Craig-Martin and Yinka Shonibare, the event runs panel sessions with some industry experts.
This exhibition showcases five artists who put the medium of drawing at the centre of their practice. They explore issues of documentation, representation, scale and the process of drawing.
Degree Show season is upon us once more and art students across the UK are in the process of preparing their final projects for examination. The concluding shows offer audiences an insight into new talents at work in the art industry.
This summer Cornerhouse in Manchester will host the first major European show by American conceptual artist Clifford Owens, across all three of its galleries. Owens’ work explores the intersection of photography, video, text and performance.
Mei Liu is the Design Director of fashion house Priory of Ten. Born in Northern China, Liu has lived in Canada and the USA. Priory of Ten was formed in 2012 and aims to produce quality pieces exuding harmony and balance.
Curated by Koyo Kouoh, From the Ethics of Acting to the Empire without Signs will showcase a new installation that references the changing environment of Issa Samb’s atelier.
Ai Weiwei in the Chapel marks the world famous artist’s first exhibition in a British public gallery since Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern in 2010. On display at the YSP, the show is found in the park’s newly refurbished 18th century chapel.
Cherie Federico is the Editor of Aesthetica Magazine, and judge for the Aesthetica Art Prize. She will be leading the fourth talk in the series held at York St Mary’s as part of the award.
This distinctly international exhibition, at Baltic’s sister gallery; Baltic39 (colloquially known as “B 3 9”), centres around such a rare shared subject, or more specifically “entity”: the moon.
The Hepworth Wakefield presents its largest exhibition yet: an extensive survey of Austrian artist, Franz West’s work, collated and developed with the artist before his death in July 2012.
GENERATION is an ongoing nationwide series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland. Toby Paterson’s show, organised by FCA&C with the Scottish Touring Exhibitions Consortium, is one of the first exhibitions to have opened as part of the project.
Tate Britain’s exhibition is organised in a roughly chronological sequence, with rooms taken over by themes reflecting Kenneth Clark’s life and work – his supremely privileged upbringing and career as Director of the National Gallery.
SohoCreate arrives in London this June for the first time. The event brings together the country’s top creative minds, ensuring various disciplines and talents are celebrated in today’s competitive, revenue driven economy.
Elizabeth Neel focuses on the concepts of shifting familiarity and the nature of abstraction. At Pilar Corrias, she presents new visual studies in controlled chaos that perpetuate this interest.
Today there is one month left to visit the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition at York St Mary’s. The show represents the breadth and quality of work being produced today in the UK and internationally.
New York-based artist Stephen Hall is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Born in Scotland, the painter has spent many years refining his talent and now produces spectacularly bold and provocative pieces.
Krakow Film Festival in Poland opens this May for its 54th edition. Running for eight days from 25 May until 1 June, the event is one of the oldest film festivals dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe.
Gunther von Hagens is best known for his controversial Body Worlds exhibitions, which he has showcased across the globe. In Body Worlds, von Hagens presents a series of human bodies.
Gazelli Art House’s focuses on the idea that the only thing constant in life is change. Feeding into this concept are the works by John Wynne and Yoonjin Jung that explore one’s inner “movement” in relation to their surrounding.
Curated by Sarah Williams, TTTT responds to recent developments amongst artists around language, technology, image dissemination, sentimentality and anxiety.
The gold plated peanuts found in Ecosystem were rumoured to have been inspected by customs for fears that they contained illegal contraband – a fitting anecdote for Michel François’ first major survey in a British gallery.
Richard Long is one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists. His work explores interventions in the landscape, tracking and documenting alterations to the terrain made by his footsteps alone or gathered from the materials of the place.
A retrospective of the work of Walerian Borowczyk is due to go on display at the ICA this week. The Listening Eye highlights the artist’s extensive work in filmmaking, painting and sculpture.
The third in the series of free lunchtime talks taking place as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize is led by University of York Lecturer and Art Historian, James Boaden. Join Boaden at York St Mary’s as he talks about the evolution of film.
In May and August of 1968 two very different uprisings took place on the streets of two European cities, photographed by two very different photographers. This exhibition showcases the work of Ian Berry and Bruno Barbey.
The photography of Marco Sanges creates dramatic works peopled by uncanny, larger than life characters. His untidy troupe of old money and sugar daddies wear their powdered wigs and brylcremed toupees at jaunty angles.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is known for her short, narrative videos. For Yes, These Eyes are the Windows, she treats 87 Hackford Road as a ready-made set and works with theatre director Lu Kemp and sound designer Elena Peña.
A new exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s photography is now open at the White Cube. His first solo show in London in seven years, it encompasses both past projects and new works.
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo showcases the work of contemporary artists in response to work by the iconic artist. In 1978, MCA Chicago presented Kahlo’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S.
Alec Von Bargen is one of 100 contemporary artists longlisted in this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize, an annual celebration of outstanding contemporary art from around the world.
Limited edition prints by James Welling, John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky and signed copies of Peter Mitchell’s Strangely Familiar are available via Light Work’s Subscription Programme.
Print Sales at The Photographers’ Gallery currently represents 35 photographers. Every year the space stages five selling exhibitions to highlight the work of its represented photographers and all profits then go back into its public programme.
Hanna Tuulikki’s Away with the Birds is a performance piece exploring the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song. The performance is an ambitious site-specific project on the Isle of Canna and is an outdoor staging of Tuulikki’s score.
Originally commissioned and presented by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion at the time of the London 2012 Olympics, Dryden Goodwin’s film installation piece Poised, returns for the Yorkshire Festival 2014.
Mythical archetypes and molecular science find common ground in the work of Inna Timokhina, an artist-scientist with Siberian gypsy roots. She received formal education in visual arts in Russia and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology.
Bang on a Can Plays Art is the culmination of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA. The festival takes places in the beautiful mountains of Western Massachusetts.
Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940) has spent the entirety of his life capturing the female form. With his wife as his central muse, the artist has shot over 250 books of women, flowers and city landscapes.
Ai Weiwei is one of the leading cultural figures of his generation and consistently displays great courage in placing himself at risk to affect social change through art. His work often challenges the political systems in place in China.
Inside the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology works from exciting new and emerging artists from around the world are represented in stunning colour images, with accompanying artists’ statements and biographies. There are 100 practitioners included.
The A+D Architecture and Design Museum is focused exclusively on progressive architecture, design and urbanism. Bowlarama: California Bowling Architecture brings a new insight into the art of the recreation centre.
pART3/3 is a group show due to open at The Crypt, London. Contemporary Fine Art Presents is a collective of 15 emerging artists from University of Portsmouth’s BA course. From 10-17 June.
It is a major accolade for a short film festival to reach its 60th year. Oberhausen Short Film Festival was launched in 1954 and it has grown to become one of the most revered film festivals in Europe.
The four artists nominated for the Turner Prize 2014 have now been announced. Those shortlisted for the award are: Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell.
The National Portrait Gallery, London, is now accepting entries to the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014, a major international photographic competition and an important platform for portrait photographers.
Karen Mabon’s designs are beautiful, bold and brash. All hand-illustrated, her scarves combine drawing with playful aesthetics. With designs that cover everything from a British garden to a stationary cupboard, Mabon transforms everyday clothing into works of art.
The Aesthetica Art Prize is on show at York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space, presenting the works of eight shortlisted artists spanning media from painting and photography to installation and performance.
As part of this programme and in collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS On Tour, The Harris Museum & Art Gallery hosts a snippet of works by influential American artist, Bruce Nauman.
Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield, Sam Lackey will lead the second talk in the series, running alongside the Aesthetica Art Prize at York St Mary’s. Join Lackey as she discusses the challenges of curating in the post-medium age.
