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As The Manchester Contemporary art fair gets underway, we take a tour and talk to some of the galleries taking part this year.

Everything must go at Liverpool’s Static gallery, but, as director Paul Sullivan explains, this is not a closing down sale.

With two art fairs to choose from in Manchester this weekend, we preview The Manchester Contemporary which offers a critically engaged programme curated by artist-led gallery The International 3.

A new home for Edinburgh Printmakers and the expansion of Cove Park artists’ centre are among the projects receiving major investment from Creative Scotland.

The six artists shortlisted for this year’s £30,000 Threadneedle Prize, chosen from the 153 works featured in the exhibition, have been announced.

Art Across the City is an exhibition of contemporary art across Swansea. Project manager Gordon Dalton and artist David Marchant discuss this celebration of publicly-sited work.

A new public realm exhibition organised by CCA Derry-Londonderry provides an alternative path through the city.

We report from the opening of this ambitious curatorial project, which explores the complex and often problematic relationship between nature and culture.

A speaker from New York’s W.A.G.E. campaign joined Glasgow-based artists this week to talk about the ‘non’ payment of artists’ fees. a-n reports from Glasgow.

A residency project at Glasgow’s Market Gallery is tackling the weighty subject of community engagement, but with the lighter and insightful touch of an artist’s practice.

From an orchestra of 100 electric guitars in the Anglican Cathedral to cakes and coffee in a bakery in Anfield, Liverpool Biennial continues to be a welcome guest in the city.

As the inaugural, artist-run CAVE Art Fair draws to a close in Liverpool, we get the views of some of the exhibiting artists – and a potential buyer.

We talk to John Moores Painting Prize 2012 winner Sarah Pickstone, the prize’s patron Peter Blake, and judge George Shaw.

Sarah Pickstone is announced First Prize winner of John Moores Painting Prize 2012.

Olivier Larivière has won the £1,000 Exeter Contemporary Open 2012 award.

As Whitstable Biennale draws to a close this weekend, we talk to its director Sue Jones and explore how the town informs the art.

The short listed artists for the sixth Northern Art Prize are Margaret Harrison, Rosalind Nashashibi, Emily Speed and Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan.

Long before Banksy, artist Walter Kershaw was painting large-scale murals on the sides of condemned council buildings in 1970s Rochdale. Now his work is being celebrated in a Radio 4 documentary.

Recent RCA graduate Karolina Glusiec awarded £8,000 First Prize for hand-drawn animation.