Arts news

• Dürer’s creative year in the Low Countries inspires exhibition

  01-01-2017 22:00
  
  A major exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Albrecht Drers year-long journey to the Low Countries from 1520 to 1521 is to be held in Aachen and Antwerp in 2020 and 2021. The curators of this ambitious project hope to bring together all the paintings and most of the drawings the artist created on what was an important trip, which he carefully recorded in his journal. It is unusual for institutions to reveal details of exhibitions so far in advance, but this is being done partly to help s
  
  Read more

• This Weekend's AJBlogs Highlights

  01-01-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music To Say Goodbye To 2016 To WELL, one of the worst years in recorded history is over. Every morning, as my consciousness returns, I am reminded that Leonard Cohen, Bowie, George Martin, and my dad are dead and that a ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-12-31
  12 Plays of Xmas: 5 Alkestis by Euripides/Anne Carson For most of these 12 Plays of Xmas, I can imagine how they might be staged, what tone the cast and production team might hope to achieve. But Alkestis&hel
  
  Read more

• Art to inspire: Ali Smith, Alain de Botton and others on the works they love

  01-01-2017 16:00
  
  Got the January blues? To kick off a series dedicated to culture that can uplift us in 2017, six writers and creators from the worlds of music, philosophy, fiction and art choose the works they can rely on to replenish their energy for lifeGilles stands there in his bright white clown suit wearing shoes with pink ribbons. He’s looking ahead, not smiling, but not running away either. He has a job to do, a life to live, a person to be. And, whatever he may be feeling inside, he presents hims
  
  Read more

• Art market faces uncertain 2017 after falling values and high-profile disputes

  01-01-2017 13:00
  
  A drop in volume, court battles and authenticity issues dogged 2016 and no one is sure if the new presidency will be good or bad for businessIt’s been a strange, unsettling year in the art market and 2017 looks likely to be just as turbulent. What does a new president who can rattle the world with a tweet mean for an industry so dependent on the international rich? The answer is that no one knows, but it is a hot topic among gallery owners and auctioneers this new year.In 2016, the art mar
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Rising stars of 2017: artist Aaron Angell

  01-01-2017 10:00
  
  The former Slade student is forging a name for himself with his intricate clay dioramas, made at an east London pottery that has become a hub for creative minds
  • Click here to see the Observer’s rising stars of 2017 in fullThe wonderfully named Troy Town Pottery in Hoxton, east London, is first and foremost the studio of the artist Aaron Angell, whose intricate ceramic sculptures – think of them as dioramas the size of a large ashtray – reflect what he calls, rather uncer
  
  Read more

• Sean McAllister, curator of Made in Hull: ‘We’re showcasing 75 years of a proud working city’

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  The factory worker turned documentary-maker on the launch of Hull’s year as UK City of CultureThe 51-year-old documentary-maker is best known for his award-winning 2015 film A Syrian Love Story. Born in Hull, he left school at 16 and spent periods signing on and working in a pea factory before going to the National Film and Television School at 28. He is the curator of Made in Hull, a week-long event involving projections on and installations in landmark buildings, created by a team of loc
  
  Read more

• Raimund Berthold's penthouse panorama

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  A designer’s riverside flat is the perfect setting for a collection of contemporary artYou never expect anyone to actually live in a riverside penthouse. You only ever see them in movie versions of London – sleek, soulless, improbably empty lairs for Bond villains or corporate baddies. But, it turns out, they exist in the real world, too – like the 11th floor Lambeth apartment Raimund Berthold and his partner, Paul, have shared for over a decade.In some ways, it’s just li
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!