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Londoners are invited to join the internationally-renowned artists this Thursday on a walk through London in support of refugees.

Member-run organisation Making Art Work has organised Art Market, a day of artists’ stalls, performances and a charity art auction taking place in Maidstone, Kent.

Tom Harrison has been awarded the £8000 prize for his elevated depiction of the Singapore cityscape.

The UK’s longest-established painting prize is open for entries from now until 9 November 2015.

Almost 1000 organisations in 49 countries will be taking part in the annual event that sees museum and gallery curators answering the public’s questions on Twitter.

At the recent opening of the 13th Lyon Biennale, artists have been rewriting the interpretation panels for their work.

Artist wins award for apocalyptic film of building sites left empty and half built in austerity-hit Britain.

A brand new ‘art hostel’ is being developed in Leeds with artists involved in all aspects of the design and making. East Street Arts, the organisation behind the project, is asking for support to help pay artists to turn the building into a work of art.

This week’s selection includes ceramics and moving image in Birmingham, a science and art mashup in Newcastle, and the results of a year-long residency at the English National Opera in London.

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

This weekend at the fourth edition of Tramway’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival in Glasgow, Transmission Gallery presents the Film Open 2015 – a new touring programme of 20 films from five artists’ support networks in the UK.

This year’s London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel Gallery – the seventh since launching in 2009 – features over 90 exhibitors and a special focus on Scandinavian art publishing. Pippa Koszerek talks to Max Vickers, the fair’s coordinator.

In the first of a new monthly series focusing on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman – researcher at UWE Bristol’s Centre for Fine Print Research – introduces a screenprinted hardback that draws on Russian Constructivist graphics and features a specially commissioned poem by Benjamin Heathcote.

The artist Olafur Eliasson is raising funds on Kickstarter to bring a newly developed, solar powered smartphone charger into production – and to change the world in the process

This week’s selection includes metal work in Sheffield, hyper-real drawing in Manchester and boxes full of treats in London.

This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes Russian authors as comic-strip heroes, a plein air exhibition that is taking on the British weather, and paintings of UFO conspiracists.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.