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Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.

For the third instalment of our series looking at visually rich art books, we consider the delicate and meditative works of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, on the occasion of her latest book – Ametsuchi – published by Aperture.

Stepping out as a new artist? a-n’s new Signpost publication tells you what you need to know, and where to find it.

The just announced commissioned projects for this year’s Frieze London art fair have a child-friendly, playful feel.

Five talented emerging makers unveil the results of their £7,500 Jerwood Makers Open commissions this week in London. We talk to the Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and two of this year’s selected makers about the project.

The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s knowledge sharing event at Google’s London office was a high-impact juxtaposition between one of the world’s most successful companies and the subsidised visual arts sector. Dany Louise reports.

Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.

Joshua Sofaer discusses “inspiration as a form of leading” with David Wilson, the Director of The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Final part of Artist as leader series.

Bob Dickinson meets Maria Balshaw of Manchester and Whitworth galleries and Sarah Perks of Cornerhouse to discuss the impact of Manchester International Festival’s visual arts programme on the city’s artist community, and the reemergence of performance at the festival.

Buy Art Fair and The Manchester Contemporary will return to the Spinningfields area of the city in September and include a tours programme hosted by Manchester Art Galleries and the Contemporary Art Society.

Maurice Carlin reports from the opening weekend of the Curators’ Network event in Madrid which looked at interconnectivity between “decentralised” local networks around the globe, and how curators, artists and organisations across Europe are dealing with economic and political transition.

Five projects have been selected for research and development phase of Jerwood Open Forest.

In the run-up to the Manchester International Festival, Bob Dickinson talks to Goa-based artist Nikhil Chopra about his durational festival performance Coal on Cotton that launches at Whitworth Art Gallery later this week.

The Gallery of Lost Art, the one year project that has showcased lost, stolen and destroyed artworks to over 100,000 visitors, will close this Thursday.

Three of London’s leading contemporary art spaces have announced a new partnership exploring collaborative models within the visual arts.

The Art Fund annual report reveals that its membership is at a record high – and that in 2012 it paid out over £6m to museums and galleries in the UK.

The Marmite Prize for Painting IV has been won by Brian Cheeswright.

Continuing our new series on visually-rich books, Tim Clark turns his attention to historic images of popes and bishops looking through telescopes in the Vatican Observatory, featured in the publication Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name.

This weekend sees the reopening of the National Glass Centre after a major redevelopment scheme that has doubled its exhibition capacity and learning spaces.
 We talk to the centre’s director and exhibiting artists, and find out what’s being shown – and made – at the centre.

a-n and The Design Trust launch a new partnership with a panel discussion as part of The Design Trust Start Up Day at New Designers 2013 on 27 June.