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Call for renaming of Ex-Libris Gallery to celebrate and value Newcastle’s female creative practitioners.

Creative Foundation has announced details of the artists taking part in the fourth edition of the Folkestone Triennial, which takes ‘double edge’ as its title and theme for 2017.

This week’s selection includes a two-venue Mark Wallinger exhibition in Dundee and Edinburgh and five decades-worth of work by Tony Cragg at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: high-profile artists support charity art auction for children in hospices, plus artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur to run for mayor of Detroit.

Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including events in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and Kent.

Four artists each receive £25,000 to create new work and a £5,000 artist fee, plus a 13-week exhibition at Baltic, opening summer 2017.

In May and June 2017, a-n will be delivering five Assembly events at locations across England, featuring speakers and training on a range of subjects.

Gustav Metzger, the German-born artist best known for his work as part of the 1960s auto-destructive art movement, has died at his home in London.

The disability-led arts organisation appoints creative director and filmmaker David Hevey as its new chief executive as current CEO Tony Heaton steps down after nearly ten years in the role.

35 artists from 19 countries will take part in the once-a-decade sculpture festival in the German city of Münster, with additional partner events in the nearby city of Marl taking place for the first time.

Dave Beech’s book Art and Value was the subject of a recent symposium at London’s ICA that raised important questions about such diverse areas as the role of arts organisations, corporate sponsorship and paying artists. Laura Harris attended and found pockets of insight in an incohesive day.

The Scottish border town of Hawick is to host the seventh edition of the annual Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, which will feature over 120 films, including 24 world premieres and 12 moving-image installations.

This week’s selection includes a painting show in London, alternatives to screen-based technologies in Manchester, and a film about artists’ sketchbooks in Trowbridge.

Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Cardiff, London, Plymouth and Salford.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: bid to catalogue ‘secret’ collection of tax-exempt artworks, French artist to entomb himself in rock, and Edinburgh Fringe venue ditches controversial digital event.

22 awards totalling over £40,000 have been presented at the opening of the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh, which showcases works by 2016 graduates form art and architecture schools in Scotland.