The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Countdown: 19 Days to Go
We interviewed Art Prize finalist Saliha Elhoussaini about her intricate drawing series Interdependence. Elhoussaini’s work reflects on the Chaos Theory and the interconnectivity between events.
We interviewed Art Prize finalist Saliha Elhoussaini about her intricate drawing series Interdependence. Elhoussaini’s work reflects on the Chaos Theory and the interconnectivity between events.
Hiromi Tango: Fluorescence is now on show at Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. Tango’s working process sees no beginning and no end, incorporating used fragments into new textile pieces.
The Edinburgh International Festival opened on Friday 7 August with The Harmonium Project. This year’s programme features 2,300 artists from 39 countries, showcasing opera, theatre, music and dance from across the world.
Dr Sam Lackey works across all aspects of the collections at The Hepworth Wakefield, and is on the judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. We speak with the curator about her role.
For the first solo UK exhibition of work by Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert, Magnum Print Room is presenting over 30 works taken from 1972-2004 which portray his innovative approach to colour.
Winner of the IK Prize 2015, Tate Sensorium by creative agency Flying Object offers an immersive exploration of key works from Tate’s prestigious art collection. The project seeks to reunite sight with the senses of taste, touch, smell and hearing.
Three weeks remain in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 call for entries. Longlisted artist Marijke de Goey was selected in 2015 with the sculptural piece Curly Burly (2012), published in Future Now.
Bernd and Hilla Becher are best known for their heavy-contrast photographs featuring formalist architecture beneath overcast skies, having championed the German ‘New Objectivity’ style.
With three weeks to go until the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries closes, we reflect on the striking variety of artists’ film submitted to the competition including José Ramón Da Cruz’s audiovisual composition Madre Quentina.
We review land artist Richard Long’s new exhibition at the Arnolfini Centre, Bristol which focuses on the artist’s personal relationship to place and local materials in the area where he grew up and lives.
Following its successful inauguration in 2014, Shaped in Mexico returns to London with a selection of over 150 works by 32 international artists. On view from 3 September, this unique, free show will take place at the Bargehouse.
There are 23 days to go in the call for submissions for the Aesthetica Art Prize. In the countdown, we spotlight finalist Rebeka Lord, whose painting Send Me on My Way was published in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2015, Future Now.
Clare Lilley is Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Wakefield, and a member of the judging panel for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. We speak with Lilley about her work at YSP and curatorial projects further afield.
John Waters’ Beverly Hills John continues at Sprüth Magers, London, and finds Waters in a more reflective mood, hoping to resolve issues about childhood fame and the horrors of nouveau-riche excess.
As part of our countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline, we speak to photographer Lottie Davies about her intimate depictions of past moments and hear about her developing career.
This August marks the 70th anniversary of Indonesian independence. As part of the celebration Cryptic (Glasgow) are putting together the largest show case of Indonesian culture within the UK.
Conceptual artist Denys Blacker uses performance, sculpture and drawing to explore themes of symmetry and precision, as in The Noble Gases, which featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015.
In collaboration with Autograph ABP, London, a retrospective of the late Rotimi Fani-Kayode, a seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art opens at Light Work, New York.
In the countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline on 31 August, we interview 2016 panel judge Pavel S. Pyś, Exhibitions & Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute.
