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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.

The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.

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.

This week’s must-see shows include major exhibitions in London by Ai Weiwei and Anselm Kiefer, and a retrospective of the work of British performance artist Stuart Brisley in Oxford.

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

To mark the end of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, Hand in Glove hosted a special Interplay discussion to explore what the festival should do next. Julie McCalden reports.

For the latest photobook in the celebrated In Almost Every Picture series, the Dutch curator and editor Erik Kessels continues to delve into the treasure troves of vernacular photography to bring us imperfect images where the photographer’s hand appears in the frame. Tim Clark reveals more.

Asia Triennial Manchester is a multi-venue festival of contemporary art which for its third edition takes Conflict and Compassion as its theme. Chris Sharratt reports.

The Exeter-based contemporary art gallery has announced it is threatened with imminent closure due to recent funding cuts.

The 2014 Turner Prize show has opened to the public, with three of the four shortlisted artists presenting film pieces.

This week’s must-see shows range from an emotive Susan Philipsz sound installation in Birmingham to the ‘Wp Wp Wp’ of Chinook helicopters in Yorkshire.

This weekend’s Manchester Contemporary art fair has got more galleries and artists than ever, and it’s in a new venue, too. Chris Sharratt reports.

Scottish-born oil painter Mackie has been awarded the 18th National Open Art Competition’s top prize of £10,000, from a selection of 29 awards worth over £60,000 in total.

The winner of this year’s £20,000 prize for figurative and representational art is the Berkshire-based artist Tina Jenkins.