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Our snapshot of international art action for the end of February finds us in Nimes, Stockholm, Graz, San Francisco and Madrid.

Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.

Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.

This week’s selection includes a major survey of the work of American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia in Wakefield, Tate’s Richard Hamilton blockbuster in London, and the paintings of a young Welsh artist in Cardiff.

Steve McQueen’s film about the horrors of slavery has won the Best Picture award at the BAFTAs, with the film’s star Chiwetel Ejiofor picking up Best Actor.

This week our snapshot of what’s happening internationally finds us in Madrid, Barcelona, Beirut, Zurich and New York.

For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.

Jerwood Open Forest, a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England, has announced two major commissions totalling £60,000.

Kate Brindley will be returning to Bristol to take up a new post at the city’s high-profile centre for contemporary arts.

A skeletal, riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are confirmed as the latest works to take their place on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.

This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a major Sarah Lucas retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow to Bettina Buck and Marie Lund’s site-specific interventions at Spacex, Exeter.

A new batch of research has just been published as part of a-n and AIR’s ongoing Paying Artists campaign.

This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.

Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.

Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands announced as the three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award for artists working in three dimensions.