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What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.

This year’s Arts Development UK national conference took a food-related approach to professional development, networking and debate. Steffan Jones-Hughes donned a hairnet, plastic gloves and apron to join the lively conversations in the conference’s World Cafe, where a menu of playful ingredients from artists in residence SSoCial kept the conversations on track.

A new centre for contemporary art and learning has just opened in a landmark heritage building in Leeds. Tina Jackson paid a visit to The Tetley’s opening weekend to find a “buzzing and inclusive event” that pitched agitprop public discussion and an artist’s open studio alongside a selection of curated artefacts from the the building’s former life as a brewery, and provided a fascinating perspective on the relationship between art and labour.

West Bromwich arts centre to cease current activities on 30 November.

“Art is not just about the money,” says Shadow Culture Secretary Harriet Harman in Commons debate on the arts and creative industries in the UK.

As the University of South Wales closes its BA Fine Art degree course for good, Gordon Dalton gets in a Newport state of mind as he visits the students’ final show and surveys the city’s battered and bruised cultural landscape.

The What Next? conference in London on 29 April brought together some 650 arts professionals as part of a new movement to reassert the value of the arts in society. Kwong Lee, Director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, shares his thoughts on the day.

A new research study identifies how visual arts courses are addressing graduate employability and preparing students for life after art school.

a-n is providing vital Go and see bursaries to artists, supporting professional development and networking at the Venice Biennale 2013.

Liverpool’s pioneering media arts centre is staging a special birthday event this weekend to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Wood Street building.

The Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon & Prize is ‘an exclusive club that will bring together the UK’s foremost creative influencers with a philanthropic goal at its heart’. Chair Rosy Greenlees and inaugural members Claire Coles and Claire Brewster discuss the project.

Newport City Council’s plans to scrap the temporary exhibitions programme at Newport Museum and Art Gallery are facing vocal, and high profile, opposition.

Museums Sheffield has been battered by cuts, with its grant income reduced by 37 per cent since 2008 and a further 10 per cent reduction recently announced. We talk to its Chief Executive about new plans to plug the funding gap.