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Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to London, Middlesbrough, Reading, Somerset and Swansea.

After AQA exam board announced it was to cease offering an A level in art history, Pearson has said it is to develop a new A-level in the subject to be taught from September 2017.

Now in its second edition, Jerwood Open Forest has awarded its 2016 commission to artist Keith Harrison who will explore the links between community, industry, car manufacture and access to nature, in a new installation and performance event for autumn 2017.

The London-based artist and poet is presented with the £10,000 prize at an award ceremony at Whitechapel Gallery.

The latest edition of the biennial Jerwood Makers Open award sees five UK-based artists awarded £7,500 each to create new works for a touring exhibition that opens in London in June 2017.

Four photographers, including Sophie Calle and Dana Lixenberg, have been shortlisted for the £30,000 international prize run by London’s The Photographers’ Gallery.

This week’s selection includes Bloomberg New Contemporaries in London, a retrospective of renowned political artist Gee Vaucher and art in the environment at the Jerwood Space.

Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Royal Standard relocates, David Hockney to design stained-glass window for the Queen, and photographer Greg Constantine banned from attending his own exhibition.

Serbian artist wins fifth edition of award for emerging artists and receives three-month studio residency at Griffin Gallery next year.

Camden Arts Centre’s visionary director Jenni Lomax is to leave the organisation after 26 years as its head.

UK-based artists Phoebe Boswell, Rebecca Moss and Andy Holden are among the 21 artists shortlisted for fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.

A roundup of some of the best open studios, artist-led festive sales and exhibitions in the run up to Christmas.

Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has intervened in the protests over the recent closure of Inverleith House gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

This week’s selection includes animals and figurative work in London, photography in Belfast, and in Brighton an exhibition recasting the role of the machine.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Cockpit Arts Camden building faces redevelopment, all-female show offers defiant riposte to Trump winning US election, and new artistic director of Tate St Ives announced.

Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.

The London-based artist, who is shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, wins the £30,000 biennial award.

London-based arts organisation V22 hope to open artists’ studios in the old library building during the summer of 2017.

Swiss-Italian artist wins £15,000 award for portrait of an 18-year-old Johannesburg schoolboy.