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Artist Rachel Maclean has been announced as the winner of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival Margaret Tait Award.

A website that tells the stories behind lost works of art – and which itself will be lost forever from July – has won the Museums + Heritage Award for Innovation.

As the second edition of Liverpool’s international photography biennial LOOK/13 launches, Director Patrick Henry talks about the world-class programme that’s in store.

Over 100 artists gathered to discuss what they value most about their profession at Artquest’s one-day For the love of it conference in London.

A weekend festival of inspiring after-hours events in museums, galleries and heritage sites kicks off tonight around the UK, with leading visual artists playing a major part. We find out more from Culture24’s Nick Stockman.

Artes Mundi, the Cardiff-based biennial international art award with a top prize of £40,000, is open for nominations for the 2014 edition.

The artist-led Standpoint Gallery announces the winner of this year’s Mark Tanner Sculpture Award during an exhibition that celebrates ten years of the prize.

The phasing in of Universal credits will affect millions of people, in particular the self-employed and sole business owners, including artists.

Nine museums have won major new objects from the COLLECT craft fair in the sixth and final year of the Art Fund Collect scheme, a partnership between the Crafts Council and The Art Fund.

A public book burning in Brighton, instigated by artist Alinah Azadeh, aims to question our historical and social understanding of debt.

Seventeen visual arts consortia encompassing 52 organisations – including a-n – have received nearly £2m in Catalyst funding to support initiatives to boost philanthropic giving to the arts.

Now in its final year, Art Fund Collect sees curators competing for funds to purchase a piece from COLLECT – the international art fair for contemporary objects. Crafts Council Director Rosy Greenlees and Yvonne Hardman, one of last year’s winners, talk about the impact of the scheme.

A shortlist of 46 artists has been selected from international submission for the South West-based open.

For the latest part of his Artist as leader research, Joshua Sofaer meets Masato Nakamura. The founder-director of 3331 Arts Chiyoda arts centre in Japan discusses leadership as a collaboration and his efforts to both challenge and collaborate with existing art world structures.

The What Next? conference in London on 29 April brought together some 650 arts professionals as part of a new movement to reassert the value of the arts in society. Kwong Lee, Director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, shares his thoughts on the day.

Canerows, bowel movements and a pile of bricks win the fifth Creekside Open run by Art in Perpetuity Trust, Deptford.