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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.

New festival artistic director John McGrath announces a snapshot of the 2017 programme, which includes new commissions by prominent visual artists.

A new touring programme exploring the history of artists’ moving image in the north of England launches with screening of three moving-image projects produced in Bradford during the 1970s.

The UK’s oldest arts centre announces 300th anniversary programme for 2017, with artists including John Akomfrah, Sonia Boyce and Larissa Sansour.

This week’s selection includes a group show of 24 female artists’ work in Penzance, Turner watercolours in Margate, and a sculptural exploration of everyday materials in Edinburgh.

The Baltic Artists’ Award will provide a platform for the work of four emerging artists and celebrate the role of the artist-mentor.

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

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: one year on, artist Fred Dewilde recounts Bataclan attack from a first-person perspective; Mexican architects reveal designs for tongue-in-cheek border wall; and details of rebuild of Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh unveiled.

Five visual artists and three composers each receive £50,000 ‘no strings attached’ awards to ‘develop their creative ideas’.

An open letter signed by artists including Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon and Ed Ruscha, as well as the actors Val Kilmer and Ewan McGregor, has called on the board of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to reopen the recently closed Inverleith House as a gallery for contemporary art.

As the news of Donald Trump’s US election victory sinks in, artists and those working in the visual arts have been sharing their thoughts on his surprise win.

This week’s selection includes reverberative play and DIY mechanics in London, a group show with Andy Warhol in a railway arch in Glasgow, and new paintings in Nottingham.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: pocket knife gifts as performance art, visa-dodging artworks for YSP, and LGBTQ histories at British Museum.

This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes an open exhibition in Somerset, portraiture on the margins in London, and a Q&A with Picasso’s muse in Dartington.

Artist Donal Moloney’s painting, Cave Floor, is the visitors’ favourite, chosen from the 54 works on show at this year’s exhibition in Liverpool.

The Cardiff Contemporary festival, with its broad theme of ‘communication’, continues throughout Wales’ capital city until 19 November. Pippa Koszerek picks out some works for a closer look.

Unions including UNISON, UNITE, the PCS and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain organise national march in London starting from the British Library and ending with a rally outside the National Gallery.

The Beirut-based artist has been announced as the winner of the biennial award for his forensically powerful film installation, earshot.

The former creative programmer for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is to take on role at the creative production organisation.

This week’s selection includes iconic painting in London, a dystopian installation in Liverpool, controversial photography in Derry, and new craft in Portsmouth.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Cost-effective studios for London artists, winner of Doug Moran prize announced, and new museums opening in France despite state budget cuts.

A new 73-page Brexit Report from the Creative Industries Foundation draws on evidence provided by its members in order to present a series of recommendations to government as well as highlighting the challenges that lie ahead for the sector.