News

20.09.21

Grand Union begins renovation of Grade II listed building Junction Works

Birmingham art gallery and artist studios complex Grand Union is beginning the transformation of Junction Works, a Grade II listed building on Fazeley Street, Digbeth.

30.08.21

Donation offer of £300,000 to boost Worcester art gallery

A philanthropist has offered to boost the collection of artworks at a city museum by donating £300,000. If approved by Worcester City Council, the anonymous donor’s money will be used to buy new works of art and improve visitor facilities at Worcester Art Gallery and Museum – via BBC.

News

11.08.21

The U.K. Government’s Decision to Slash Arts Funding in Higher Education Is Short-Sighted. We Must Remind Our Politicians Why Art Is Essential

CVAN Director Paula Orrell on why the UK must reconsider its decision to slash support for arts education – via artnet

News

26.07.21

UK government approves 50% funding cut for arts and design courses

The Office for Students (OfS) has confirmed changes to how it will distribute funding to universities and colleges for 2021-22.

News

07.06.21

Art Night comes to the West Midlands

Transforming iconic and unexpected public spaces within London since 2016, for its 5th edition Art Night will take place in locations across the UK, including the West Midlands.

News

04.06.21

Curating Institutional Change

A series of free online events this June, hosted by disability arts charity DASH, will discuss how the visual arts sector can become more inclusive and accessible for Disabled people.

News

01.06.21

Art X-UK Acquisitions

Over the past year, the Government Art Collection has collaborated with contemporary art networks (including New Art West Midlands) to collect new works by 45 visual artists from across the UK, celebrating and supporting the diversity of creativity across the Union.

News

21.05.21

#ArtIsEssential Digital March

The Contemporary Visual Arts Network invite you to take part in a Digital March on 10 June to let the government know that #ArtIsEssential.

News

12.05.21

‘Tragic misstep’: arts education cuts risk UK cultural leadership, government told

In a letter organised by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network, arts sector leaders speak out against proposed 50% funding cut for arts subjects at universities in open letter – via The Guardian.

News

07.05.21

Turner Prize 2021 shortlist announced

From a Welsh community group to a neurodiverse arts hub in Hastings, the collectives’ works will go on show at the Herbert in Coventry from September – via The Art Newspaper

News

20.04.21

New space opens for city creatives

The Quarter Contemporary Arts Space, in Chapel Ash in Wolverhampton will be a hub for local artists in the Black Country to showcase their work – via The Express & Star.

Media

16.04.21

Anti-racism toolkit

A free toolkit from Inc Arts for the creative and cultural sector to take measurable action against racism.

News

16.04.21

Coventry Biennial: Full artist list announced

The full artist list has been announced for the third Coventry Biennial, taking place from 8 October 2021 – 23 January 2022. A third of the artists exhibiting are from the region.

News

12.04.21

‘We hope we can survive’ – Digbeth venue which closed its doors a year ago hanging on by a thread

Centrala has been a fixture in Digbeth for almost ten years but the pandemic has forced it to run out of cash and face an uncertain future which could see its doors close forever. – via Birmingham Mail

News

24.03.21

The Great British Art Tour: a changing work of curdled hopes and dreams

With public art collections currently closed The Guardian are exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Emalee Beddoes-Davis, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Birmingham Museums Trust writes about Donald Rodney’s ‘Land of Milk and Honey II’, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

News

22.03.21

‘We needed to rescue the nation from despair’: culture’s year of Covid

Insights from across the cultural sector – via The Guardian.

News

03.03.21

Coventry City of Culture unveils ‘flexible’ festival programme

A summer of surprises announced – via BBC.

News

01.03.21

‘Opening Ikea but not the V&A doesn’t make any sense’: Museums in fight to survive ‘catastrophic’ Covid losses

The late reopening of the UK’s museums is another blow as they slash budgets and cut staff because of the pandemic. Come 17 May, they will have to do far more, with far less to attract the public back – via i newspaper.

Interview

24.02.21

Occupy White Walls: democratising art at Birmingham Museums

Linda Spurdle, Digital Development Manager at Birmingham Museums Trust, and Yarden Yaroshevski, CEO and founder of games creator StikiPixels, discuss Occupy White Walls (OWW), which draws hundreds of artworks from the museums’ collections into a game centring on a virtual art gallery – via Blooloop.

News

24.02.21

Rescheduled British Art Show 9 dates announced

British Art Show, the largest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, will launch in England at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in January 2022.