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The organisers of the annual Hackney WickED Festival in East London have announced that the event will not be going ahead this year due to spiralling costs – but that the community interest company will continue to work with artists in London and beyond.

Details of the 15th annual pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery, which is this year designed by Madrid-based architects SelgasCano, reveal a polygonal structure covered in a translucent, multi-coloured fabric membrane.

The programme for this year’s annual Edinburgh Art Festival includes the first solo show in Scotland from Phyllida Barlow and an open call for proposals from early career, Scotland-based artists.

This week’s UK-wide exhibition selection ranges from a major show of work by Glasgow-based 2008 Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes at Tate Liverpool, to Chinese painter Zhang Enli at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

ISIS Arts in Newcastle has just launched Corners, a major European-wide collaborative residency and exhibition programme that will see 30 artists and producers arrive in the North East of England during March.

The visual arts programme for this year’s Manchester International Festival has been announced, with new works by Gerhard Richter, Ed Atkins, Olafur Eliasson and Douglas Gordon among the highlights.

The west of England sculpture trail has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2016 with a series of new temporary and permanent commissions.

This week’s selections include Cornelia Parker in Manchester, Fujiko Nakaya in Bristol and a wall drawing made from fingerprints in Nottingham.

Whilst the three main parties were keen to stress a need to redistribute arts funding more evenly around the UK, there was little in the way of concrete pledges at Wednesday evening’s Artists’ Union England Hustings debate in London, addressing issues that directly concern artists in the lead up to the general election. Stephen Palmer reports.

The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.