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A Jerwood Encounters exhibition co-curated by Marcus Coates and Grizedale Arts focuses on art production as ‘a useful and productive activity’.

Five recipients of the £50,000 visual arts awards announced.

Are there more effective ways to demonstrate the value of artists within culture? And what can we learn from policies in other countries? a-n’s Director reports on current UK developments and looks at approaches in Australia, Canada, Sweden and Norway.

The Walker Art Gallery is hosting a series of debates, talks and tours that will interrogate the role of painting in contemporary art.

Exhibition showcases works by Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Awards winners 2012.

Lost Arts is a partnership set up by eight unions whose members will be directly affected by cuts to the arts. The project’s coordinator explains what it’s all about.

Conjunction 12 is the third edition of Stoke-on-Trent’s contemporary arts biennial. We talk to artist and curator Anna Francis and to Bethan Lloyd Worthington, one of this year’s commissioned artists.

Recent decisions on business rates relief due to central government cuts are threatening the future of two studio and gallery spaces in Liverpool.

The programme for Derry~Londonderry 2013, the UK’s first City of Culture, has been announced.

Ten shortlisted artists revealed for the Griffin Art Prize, a new award for painting and drawing supporting emerging talent.

Is the future of TV a shared space that bridges new relationships between socially engaged audiences, curators, creatives and broadcasters? A one-day forum at FACT this Friday will ask ‘how should artists use the medium?

32 artists shortlisted for the fourth edition of the alternative art prize ‘run by painters for painters’.

Making It Professional was a one-day development event for makers, organised by the Making It project. We report from Winchester on the practical ideas and inspiration it provided.