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This week’s selection includes landscapes in Eastbourne, portraiture at the Royal Academy and art meets science in Glasgow.

This year’s Liverpool Biennial is busy, lively and timely, sprawling across 27 sites and featuring a broad range of cleverly realised works. Chris Sharratt reports from the city and selects five highlights.

Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Birmingham, Co. Durham, Exeter, Sevenoaks and Southampton.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Parliament debates the EBacc’s omission of creative subjects for almost three hours, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli barred from leaving country ahead of London visit, and pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years.

Wiltshire based artist wins biennial open submission prize, taking home £25,000, with the other prizewinners each receiving £2,500.

This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Artists Amy Sharrocks and Clare Qualmann have initiated the Walking Women project in order to place women artists within the walking art canon. Pippa Koszerek speaks to them about their practical and utopian mission in advance of their events at Somerset House next week.

Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.

Manchester School of Art graduate Becca Halliwell-Sutton has won the £20,000 Woon Prize, hosted by Northumbria University at Baltic 39 in Newcastle.

This week’s selection includes emerging Midlands artists working with photography, 500 years of painters’ paintings at the National Gallery, and Imran Qureshi’s work on paper and canvas in Cornwall.

DACS Foundation’s Art360 project has awarded funding to 26 artists and estates in the 2016 round of funding for its three-year project, which aims to support the preservation of artists’ archives.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: curatorial team set for London’s King’s Cross; arson attack results in relocation of Liverpool Biennial artwork; protests against Australian arts cuts; and Christie’s art sale exceeds post-Brexit estimates.

Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.

Artangel’s new commission for the Houses of Parliament offers a timely preservation of Westminster’s history. Jack Hutchinson takes a look at this latex installation by artist Jorge Otero-Pailos.

As the degree show season draws to a close, we take a final look at a-n’s Instagram coverage with highlights from Nadine Shaban’s takeovers at the City & Guilds of London Art School degree show and the Royal College of Art graduate shows.

This week’s selection includes a consideration of how certain details of a painting can be overlooked or dismissed in Manchester, a new light installation in Penarth and a show curated by a fashion designer in London.

Five projects and programmes from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Bracknell, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth and Halesworth.