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Interview with Multimedia Artist, Annina Roescheisen

Annina Roescheisen is a multimedia artist. Her video piece What Are You Fishing For? was longlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize, and is next showing in her first solo show in New York.

Jackson Pollock at Tate

Tate Liverpool’s major new retrospective Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is the first exhibition in over thirty years to properly survey the artist’s late works. The show focuses on Pollock’s black pourings.

Review: The Skriker

Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker is a nightmarish, politically charged play performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the Manchester International Festival.

Sean Lynch, Adventure: Capital, Venice Biennale

Irish artist Sean Lynch presents an entirely new body of works entitled Adventure: Capital at the Venice Biennale this year. This ambitious project includes video, sculptural and archival elements.

Urs Fischer, Modern Institute

Urs Fischer, the Swiss-born, New York-based artist has created a site-specific installation which plays with scale and bisects the gallery space of his new show at the Modern Institute, Glasgow.

Interview with Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson, London Fieldworks

London Fieldworks was formed in 2000 by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson. Working across installation, sculpture, architecture, film and publishing, the collective produces work for a range of contexts, in a variety of locations.

Sarah Lucas’ British Council Commission, Venice Biennale

This year, the UK Pavilion at the 65th Venice Biennale presents a new body of work by Sarah Lucas set in a sea of Crème Anglaise, dismissing the traditional white walls for bright custard yellow.

Ernesto Neto & Huni Kuin, Aru Kuxipa, Sacred Secret

TBA21’s latest artist centred initiative, Aru Kuxipa, Sacred Secret, concerns the commissioning of interdisciplinary and unconventional projects devoted to social and environmental concerns.

Complicit, Gallery 8, London

Gallery 8 in London hosts Complicit, a collection of artwork by a trio of female artists: Kate MccGwire, Juliette Losq and Anita Smith. The featured artwork offers unique and unsettling encounters.

British Art Show 8, Artists Line-up, Hayward Touring

Hayward Touring celebrates contemporary British practices with an extraordinary line-up of artists including Cally Spooner, Ciara Phillips and Laure Prouvost, for this year’s British Art Show.

Lynn Hershman Leeson at Modern Art Oxford

A preeminent feminist figure and early practitioner of interactive art, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Origins of the Species features in a solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford this summer.

EDITION VI: Film(ic), The Wapping Project Bankside

The Wapping Project Bankside has selected for its new group exhibition artists whose practice includes elements of film and moving image or who employ the tropes associated with the cinematic. With work by photographer Thomas Zanon-Larcher.

Do It: Kunsthal Rotterdam

Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s do it is possibly the first touring international art exhibition in the Kunsthal Rotterdam’s history which requires no exhibits to be physically moved from A to B.

Review: Barbara Hepworth

Featuring work from Hepworth’s later years, A Greater Freedom celebrates the raw beauty and experimental nature of the pieces, focusing on new materials used by the prolific sculptor in the 1960s.

Interview with CFCCA Director Zoe Dunbar and Curator Lu Pei-yi

CFCCA opens its gallery to socially and environmentally concerned artists in Micro Micro Revolution. We speak to Director Zoe Dunbar and Curator Lu Pei-yi ahead of the preview launch.

Interview with Barrie Dale

Barrie Dale believes that the natural world represents a largely untapped source of artistic interest. He sees no barriers or even distinctions between the Arts and the Sciences.

Alexander Calder, Primary Motions, Dominique Lévy

Known for his pioneering use of the mobile, where suspended sculptural elements in a space create an ever-shifting harmony, Alexander Calder was an artist whose practice was truly trans-Atlantic.

Art Monaco ’15, Opus Eventi

2015 sees the sixth edition of Art Monaco, which creates a meeting point and platform to promote cultural exchanges and to exhibit and sell art. Opus Events also presents Art Ibiza.

Juno Calypso: Flowers Gallery

Flowers Gallery has announced the nominations for its 22nd edition of Artist of the Day, a platform for emerging artists since 1983, including photographer Juno Calypso.

Jackson Pollock, Blind Spots

Blind Spots at Tate Liverpool is the first show in over 30 years to survey the later works of Jackson Pollock. The exhibition focuses on the artist’s highly influential output in the early 1950s.