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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.

There’s been plenty for new BALTIC director to celebrate in 2015, from bringing the Turner Prize to Glasgow while head of Tramway, to becoming the Gateshead venue’s first female director. Sarah Munro reflects on a “rollercoaster” of a year and a new job that makes her “tingle with excitement”.

Since 15 October, artist Jo Chapman has marked her 10-week residency on Shetland with a post (almost) every day on her a-n blog. She recalls a shifting and exciting year of upheaval that saw her without a studio and ‘almost itinerant’.

The artist who represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale looks back over a year of lovely memories and hard work.

The Birmingham-based artist-run organisation has spent the year trying to be ‘useful, productive, supportive and critical’, while grappling with the ‘highs and horrors’ of the world. Gavin Wade explains.

London-based Scottish artist Ruth Ewan is one of five artists shortlisted for the 6th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, with the winner to be announced in early in 2016. 2015? It’s been a bit of a blur, she says.

The highlight of 2015 for Belfast-based filmmaker Seamus Harahan was winning the Film London Jarman Award in November. He reflects on a difficult year that, in the end, has been “kind of amazing”.

In the second of our end-of-year questionnaires, artist Gordon Shrigley – who ran as a candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch in this year’s general election – reflects on a topsy-turvy 2015.

For the final Now Showing selection of 2015, Jack Hutchinson selects seven must-see shows over the holiday period.

This year has seen the Bristol-based public art commissioning organisation, Situations, present one of its most ambitious and high-profile events yet with Theaster Gates’ Sanctum project. In the first of our end of year series, its director looks back on a ‘breakthrough’ year and looks forward to more support for public art that is ‘temporary and unfolding’.

The final conversation in Artquest’s System Failure series took the opportunity to unpick the different approaches of education versus exhibition departments within galleries and museums.

Five exhibitions and public works from a-n members on display during the holiday season, selected from a-n’s Events section.

Kitty Scott announced as co-curator of 2018 edition, while Julie Lomax becomes director of development of the leading art festival.