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Peckham Platform launches its new vision as an independent charity with the opening of Ruth Beale’s participatory installation, Bookbed. We talk to the artist and the organisation’s executive director Emily Druiff about libraries, socially-engaged practice and being a creative educational platform.

Artists talking blogger Stuart Mayes is celebrating seven years using the platform, which he says has provided him with an important thinking space and access to a supportive community of fellow artists.

This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Matt Stokes’ elegiac films in Blackpool, Pop Art pioneer Patrick Caulfield in Kendal, and Chinese animator Sun Xun in London.

This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.

Following a public vote, the 10 winning institutions have been revealed who will each be hosting a different contemporary artist for the Museums at Night weekend in May.

For the latest instalment of our regular Pictured series focusing on art books, Tim Clark reflects on Veramente, the career-spanning monograph from pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, Guido Guidi.

Creative Scotland has announced £9.4million of capital funding for 12 organisations in Scotland, including Collective Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, Cove Park and Hospitalfield Arts.

a-n’s popular professional development programme, designed to give artists and visual arts freelancers the confidence and know-how to move their practice and projects forward, continues into 2014 with a series of seminars and workshops in Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Leicestershire.

This week’s must-see exhibitions range from Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s first solo show in a public gallery at Nottingham Contemporary to Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery.

Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn has been announced as the winner of the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

This week’s snapshot of international art action takes us to Trondheim, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris.

Emerging visual artists Leah Capaldi and Andrew Cranston are among the six recipients of the £10,000 awards.

A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.

Polly Staple, director of Chisenhale Gallery in London’s East End, has been awarded the £25,000 Genesis Award for mentoring in the arts.

In a move that aims to emphasise its history as a membership organisation, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is to reintroduce its £1 Day Membership scheme.

Following a £1.4million expansion project, Delfina Foundation re-opens its doors with The Politics of Food, a four-year residency project exploring ways creative process and practice can address issues around food, agriculture and the environment.

For this week’s must-see shows, we’re wrapping up warm in London, getting immersed in a fictional 70s exploitation movie in Manchester, and enjoying a comprehensive survey of British Land Art in Coventry.

This week our global snapshot takes us to The Netherlands, San Francisco, Poland, Italy and Shenzhen in China.

Christopher Paul Daniels, Mat Fleming and Dennis Isou receive digital and moving image residency awards for pilot research and development programme.

For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.