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This week’s selection includes photography in London, printmaking in Derry and seascapes in Bournemouth.

Frances Morris, who has been part of the Tate team since joining as a curator in 1987, has been appointed the new director of Tate Modern.

Inaugural London light festival features work by 20 international artists installed at some of the capital’s most iconic buildings and locations.

Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.

As Phyllida Barlow becomes the 40th artist to join Artist Rooms, it’s announced that a new, dedicated exhibition space for the collection at the Tate Modern extension will debut with work by Louise Bourgeois.

This year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition will be selected by Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza.

The Museums Association Cuts Survey 2015 suggests that funding cuts are putting museums under increased pressure, with more pain to come as local authorities attempt to balance their decreasing budgets.

Polemical 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier is the thematic framework for the next two editions of North East festival of art, music and film.

Fancy devising your own schedule of professional development to boost your practice in 2016? Looking to expand your horizons and go places in the year ahead? a-n is offering two new bursary strands to Artist members for 2016, with the focus on professional development and travel.

Visual arts organisations Metal and Cornubian Arts and Science Trust receive a share of £3m to create new arts festivals.

The death of David Bowie is a loss to both music and visual culture.

This week’s selection includes Japanese shojo (girls’) manga in Southport, early Mondrian in London and an exploration of the collateral objects that feed the creative process in Ipswich.

As applications for this year’s Clore leadership programme open, a-n announces the first ever dedicated Visual Artist Fellowship.

This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes exhibitions in Cheltenham, London, Plymouth and Southampton.

Todmorden-based studio group Fold, devastated following West Yorkshire’s highest river levels in recorded history, bounces back with crowdfunding campaign.

Ellie Harrison’s year-long Glasgow Effect project, which will see her only doing work within the Greater Glasgow area throughout 2016, has attracted a barrage of criticism on social media and articles in the local and national press. Chris Sharratt reports on the artist’s and project funder Creative Scotland’s response.

For the first Now Showing selection of 2016, we explore painting after abstraction in London, consider artistic positions that have been hard won in Edinburgh, and try to make sense of the ‘reality’ around us in Manchester.

With Cardiff Council proposing big cuts to the arts in the city, including Artes Mundi and Cardiff Contemporary, the Welsh capital’s cultural community has come together to make the case for continued funding.