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The winners of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 have been announced with awards totalling £25,000.

The Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon & Prize is ‘an exclusive club that will bring together the UK’s foremost creative influencers with a philanthropic goal at its heart’. Chair Rosy Greenlees and inaugural members Claire Coles and Claire Brewster discuss the project.

There’s food for thought on the menu at Scunthorpe’s 20-21 Visual Arts Centre this Sunday, courtesy of artists’ publishing platform COPY.

In partnership with ixia, artist Hannah Hull is presenting a series of events in Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham for socially-engaged artists who want to be part of a ‘hyper-local critical support network’.

As a new exhibition exploring approaches to collaborative working opens at Transition Gallery in London, we talk to one of the participating artists and the gallery’s co-directors.

The shortlist of artists competing for the Liverpool Art Prize 2013 has been revealed.

During 2012, around ten per cent of funds awarded through Arts Council England’s Catalyst fund – to help improve fundraising capacity – went to visual arts organisations.

Newport City Council’s plans to scrap the temporary exhibitions programme at Newport Museum and Art Gallery are facing vocal, and high profile, opposition.

Common Practice’s new publication, written by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, offers new ways of evaluation and measurement in the art world.

Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is encouraging ‘user-generated’ content via its CG Associates scheme, which includes the Launch Pad series of short exhibitions. We find out more from artist Maurice Carlin and the gallery’s Deputy Director Clarissa Corfe.

Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.

With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.

Museums Sheffield has been battered by cuts, with its grant income reduced by 37 per cent since 2008 and a further 10 per cent reduction recently announced. We talk to its Chief Executive about new plans to plug the funding gap.

Details of the new and specially commissioned work by the four artists shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize 2013, which opens at Leeds Art Gallery in March, have been announced.

Liverpool Biennial curator Lorenzo Fusi has been announced as the new Artistic Director of Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery.

The Royal Standard, Liverpool’s renowned artist-led studios and gallery, is facing a brighter future after resolving – for now – the rates relief issue that threatened its existence.

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