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23 January 2015

This week Glasgow Film Festival announce the 2015 programme, Theaster Gates has been named as the recipient of the sixth Artes Mundi Prize, and artistic director Walter Meierjohann discusses Manchester's new cross-arts venue Home. International cultural relations have also featured strongly as Arts Council England reveal new international programmes funds, British Council open Syria: Third Space in London and the Berlin Literature Seminar, now in its 30th year will take place on 29 January.

 
 

Syria: Third Space

A new exhibition about recovery and resilience, highlighting the British Council’s support of displaced Syrian artists, is now open at the Foyer Gallery of the British Council headquarters in London. The exhibition of over 30 works examines the vital roles that artists play as storytellers, conveners, facilitators and spokespeople. In an article in The Huffington Post Director Arts Graham Sheffield discusses how “through arts and culture, civil society is strengthened from the ground up” in relation to the exhibition. Accompanying this, a new digital commissioning programme to support displaced Syrian artists has been launched in partnership with The Space. The exhibition runs until 18 February.

 

 

The Selector

Presented by Goldierocks this week's show features Boxed In live in session, Tom Shorterz In The Mix and new tracks from Nothing But Thieves, Tinie Tempah, Tropics and Kate Tempest amongst many more.

Listen to the show
 

Digital Utopias

Earlier this week the Digital Utopias conference in Hull looked at how digital technologies are enabling creativity across the arts. From curating to archiving and collecting to creating, the conference inspired debate around topical and diverse approaches to using these technologies.

Watch the films
 

Perspex Studio

Double Mercury Award-winning artist PJ Harvey has begun her new project, Recording in Progress, with Art Angel and Somerset House. Hannah Ellis-Peterson is one of the first people to watch the musician through the specially constructed Perspex studio, as she records material for her new album.

Read the article
 
 
 

 

Literary Translation Fund

The Creative Europe Literary Translation Fund is now open to applications. Publishers can apply for grants of up to €100,000 to support the translation of between 3 and 10 books. Successful past applicants have included Harvill Secker, Pushkin Press and Vagabond Voices. Deadline 4 February.

Apply here
 

The international issue of artists' wages

Susan Jones, director of a-n, The Artists Information Company, discusses how artists’ low income and status are international issues, comparing governmental policy and artists’ average incomes from countries across the world including the UK, South Korea and Canada.

Read the article
 

Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Selected by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga this year's exhibition of some of the most promising emerging UK artists enters its last weekend at the ICA. A series of films about the exhibion and artists in this year's edition is now available to watch online.

Watch the films
 
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