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The winner of the Visitors’ Choice award of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize is Juliette Losq for her painting Vinculum.

As part of ongoing protests against privatisation proposals at the National Gallery, staff have organised their own exhibition of work inspired by the gallery’s collection.

In response to falling levels of participation in craft-related subjects at GCSE and in higher education, the Crafts Council has launched Our Future is in the Making: An Education Manifesto for Craft and Making, as a means to safeguarding craft education in the UK.

Following the announcement that parts of the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation are to remain on display until the end of the month before setting off on a tour of the UK, artist Paul Cummins is to plant the final poppy at the Tower of London on 11 November 2014 to mark Armistice Day.

With Stan Douglas in Edinburgh, Andy Warhol in Liverpool and William Hogarth in London, this week’s selection spans 300 years of art making and includes painting, sculpture, film, drawing, print and more.

Gulflabor, a group of international artists, have stepped up their call for the Guggenheim to enforce stringent labour and human rights regulations in the construction of its Abu Dhabi museum, with a string of public actions.

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.

The inaugural Prix Net Art has been given to Netherlands-based ‘internet art’ pioneers JODI, with a distinction award going to US artist Kari Altmann. Chris Sharratt reports.

100 artists who were affected by the fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building earlier this year have been awarded bursaries to enable them to continue their creative studies at art schools in the UK and beyond.

This year’s Platform Graduate Award, for recent art graduates in South East England, has been awarded to Sophie Dixon.

Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland and Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced her support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.

A new annual prize for art and film, launched by Amsterdam-based EYE film museum and the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, will honour artists and filmmakers who have successfully brought the two worlds together.

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.

This week’s selection of must-see shows takes us on a trip to Manchester, Leeds, Hastings and a forest in Surrey.

In collaboration with Ikon gallery, Birmingham-born artist Gillian Wearing has immortalised a local family, consisting of two sisters and their children, in a bronze artwork sited in Centenary Square outside the new Birmingham Library.

In Photo Show, editor Alessandra Mauro offers a kaleidoscopic look at 12 landmark photography exhibitions and perhaps a new perspective from which to approach the medium. Tim Clark is excited by the first book of its kind.

a-n’s Granted professional development programme of workshops and seminars for artists and visual arts freelancers launches a new strand this autumn, working in partnership with Medway Council’s Recreate project, and offering one-to-one advice for the first time.

Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.