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The winners of the 2013 Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education were announced at this year’s engage conference in Birmingham.

Up to 3000 people are expected to descend on Scarborough for the Art Party Conference, instigated by the artist Bob and Roberta Smith.

This year’s engage International Conference took place in Birmingham and tackled the current period of ‘extraordinary change’ in art education across the UK while also exploring what an uncertain future may hold. AIR Council member Caroline Wright, who was presenting at the conference, reports.

Plans for an artist-led workspace designed to encourage talented art graduates to stay in Plymouth receives a £2million boost from the European Regional Development Fund.

This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Korean artist Haegue Yang at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Michael Landy at the National Gallery, and photographic viewpoints of the city in Manchester.

Luke George and Elizabeth Rose have been named as the winners of the 2013 Griffin Art Prize, for emerging artists working in painting and drawing.

This week’s (8-14 November) whistlestop tour of international contemporary art action takes us to Paris, Sao Paulo, New York, Gothenburg and Leuven in Belgium.

For the latest instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark is in awe of AMC Journal Issue 7, The Great Refusal, a document of post-World War II protest that simultaneously reveals the birth of new forms of hedonism.

A major multi-venue cultural programme of exhibitions covering the last 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland has announced its ambitious, nationwide programme for 2014.

The current director of Focal Point Gallery will succeed Nicola Hood as director of Spacex, Exeter.

The artist John Smith has been announced as the winner of the sixth annual Film London Jarman Award for artists working with moving image.

Speakers and delegates from the spheres of music, the visual and performing arts come together in London this December for a day of talks and discussions on how the economy is affecting the social ecology of the arts. We find out more from symposium organiser Third Ear Music, and offer a ticket giveaway exclusive to a-n members.

Grayson Perry used his final Reith Lecture for BBC Radio 4 to look at his journey to becoming an artist, and to discuss the central purpose of creating art, which he described as “meaning making”.

Angus McEwan is the only British artist to feature amongst the 24 award-winners of the Shenzhen Watercolour Biennial in China.

The 55th Venice Biennale achieves daily attendance record – and surpasses 400,000 visitors.

This week’s must-see shows take us to Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and London.

For this week’s snapshot of international art activity, covering 1-7 November, we’re in New York, Shanghai, Warsaw and the district of Tensta in Sweden.