artists

The last Shuffle club night of 2009 mixes it up MP3 player style but with live acts this Friday. The newly established Art Saves Lives, which aims to give marginalised voices a platform, provides the artists Cosmo, Leon Walker, Jonny Neesom who will be shuffling …

Ting-Ting Cheng by Dean Nicholas An artist without a studio is like a cook without a kitchen so you can imagine how chuffed the winners of the Artists Without Studios Prize are feeling with Ben Uri Gallery at their disposal. Gone is the formal hanging …

Aspiring visual artists with nowhere to work and not a bean to spare; if you’re under 28 here’s some exciting news for you. Ben Uri Gallery in St Johns Wood has announced the Artists Without Studios Prize residency and exhibition opportunity. Up to four artists …

If we were ill we’d definitely hope to see our doctor wielding a stethoscope rather than a sketchbook – but from Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings to Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets, art has long been influenced by medicine. A new exhibition now aims to prove that …

Nobody likes traffic, do they? Especially not Madonna, who is apparently taking as a personal affront to musicians trying to make their gigs in the congestion zone. In an interview with Q magazine, the Britified American said, “I would make it so that young musicians, …

If so, you’re probably better poised than we are to win a contest kicking off today. So listen up artists, armchair critics, and wannabe designers: HarperCollins, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, are sponsoring a competition to design a book cover for the forthcoming The …

Never knowingly underrated – his was the sole photographic contribution to a recent Phaidon book about art history – Canadian photographer Jeff Wall is best known for his imposingly large colour transparencies that evoke scenes from unmade films. For his first UK show since a …

Four weeks till Christmas! Argh. Funds are all focused on present buying and getting through the party season but we still want to go out and about because the heating isn’t working properly at home. We can’t afford to go and see Gandalf drop his …

- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …