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Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section.

Artquest launched its System Failure series of conversations earlier this week with a discussion looking at how the arts funding system could be restructured to better benefit artists. We report from the event at Block 336, an artist-led space in Brixton, London.

Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.

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

Sam Thorne, currently artistic director of Tate St Ives, takes over position from Alex Farquharson who is leaving to become new head of Tate Britain.

A host of well-known faces from the arts, film and TV are featured in the visual campaign for Panic! What Happened to Social Mobility in the Arts?

Four artists who create work deemed to enrich the visual experience of our urban spaces have been shortlisted for the £10,000 award.

Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation has announced the shortlist for the $100,000 biennial prize, with British artist Mark Leckey and Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera among the six finalists.

Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the panel of judges who will select the shortlist and overall winner of the UK’s longest-established painting prize, which is currently open for applications until 9 November 2015.

This week’s selection includes a site-specific video installation in London reflecting on history, landscape and catastrophic events, a major show of iconic works by American artist Cy Twombly in Bexhill, and an exhibition of artistic tributes at an artist-led space in Yorkshire.

This week’s selection, chosen from listings posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes a debate, a symposium, and exhibitions in Cambridge, Darlington, London, Manchester and Newcastle.

Arts Council England has awarded six Creative People and Places projects over £5 million between them to build on the successes of their community-embedded arts programmes.

London-based Haroon Mirza is the first British artist to receive the biennial award which honours those influenced by the late American sculptor Alexander Calder.

A new series of conversation events in London, produced by Artquest and part-programmed with a-n and Axisweb, will ask ‘how could the art world perform better for artists?’

Artist’s installation of a ‘pseudo-shamanic hut’ is the winner of the £5000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in Stoke-on-Trent.

Four artists from the north of England have received awards in the biennial New Light Prize, with Sheffield-based Mandy Payne winning the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award for her depiction of Park Hill housing estate.

The London-based studio provider enables 16 art college graduates to take up studios at its Warton House premises in Stratford from October 2016.

This week’s selection includes an innovative way of exploring Cambridge’s more intriguing locations, multi-disciplinary work in Liverpool and a mind-blowing example of painting technique in Edinburgh.

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

As the artist and curator-led art fair continues, we take a look at Marion Piper’s first day as a-n Instagram ‘take over’ artist during the Sluice_2015 preview.

10 artists have been selected for annual competition and showcase exhibition which profiles the work of recent UK based graduates whose primary medium is painting or drawing.