CIRCA

Art educationnews

New Frank Bowling project to send £500,000 worth of art supplies to UK schools

Work by the students will be displayed on London's Piccadilly Lights in 2025

Holly Black

Commissionsnews

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Gareth Harris

Video, film & new mediavideo

Artist Ai Weiwei reads Dalai Lama's new letter to the world: 'The Art of Hope'

The video and message are part of the digital art platform Circa's new art commissions for public screens and billboards around the world

The Art Newspaper

The Insidersblog

Circa's Piccadilly Circus billboard offers Christmas lights with a difference

Louisa Buck

Marina Abramovićcomment

Marina Abramovic: 'We need less artists and more heroes'

As the performance artist launches her Circa 2022 commission, she opens up about her father, her new "hero" grants, and why she is dropping her first NFT collection

Marina Abramovic

Fundingnews

Lisson Gallery and digital platform Circa will fund scholarships at London university

The bursaries support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students on postgraduate courses in the arts at Goldsmiths

Gareth Harris

The Buck stopped hereblog

Patti Smith lights up London's Piccadilly Circus with birthday wishes for Greta Thunberg

Louisa Buck

Public artnews

New public art project in London will show works by Ai Weiwei and Eddie Peake on Europe's largest billboard

The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020

Louisa Buck