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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.

The director of Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath, Scotland – which will be curating the Scottish pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, alongside its ongoing programme of artists’ residencies – reflects on a busy year of new partnerships and future possibilities.

A 10 metre high lightning bolt by artist S Mark Gubb has been unveiled as a new permanent beacon in Cardiff city centre.

This week’s selection of must-see UK shows stretches from Nestor Armando Gil in Exeter to Alasdair Gray in Glasgow, with detours to London and the North East along the way.

Lowcs International has awarded commissions to two artists, Liam Aitken and Rich White, following the Swansea-based organisation’s second annual Public Art Open Submission competition.

The winner of the 2014 Film London Jarman Award and the four recipients of Random Acts commissions for Channel 4 have been announced.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop opens its £3 million purpose-built studios and hub with a number of new artists commissions.

The major exhibition for the 12th edition of DaDaFest, The Art of the Lived Experiment, sees Liverpool’s Bluecoat at the heart of a series of city-wide events addressing disability culture. We speak to artistic director Ruth Gould about the need for continued social change through championing disabled and deaf artists.

Independent curator and writer Ben Borthwick is to join Plymouth Arts Centre as artistic director, where he will develop the organisation’s public realm and visual arts activity and lead on the centre’s contribution to the Mayflower 2020 festival.

Stewart Home, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye feature in the MIRRORCITY newspaper edited by the Booker Prize-nominated author Tom McCarthy, to accompany the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition of the same name.

The eight award recipients of digital plaform The Space’s first open call for digitally innovative works will explore challenging questions around technology and personal freedoms.

As the art world descends on London for the 12th Frieze Art Fair, we take a snapshot of art fair activity happening across the capital.

Cardiff Contemporary festival continues for five weeks across the city, inviting visitors to explore and discover the Welsh capital through a series of installations and exhibitions. Rory Duckhouse reports from the opening weekend.

A temporary artwork commissioned by Cumbria’s Eden Arts for the top of England’s highest mountain has been destroyed by an act of vandalism.

Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.