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Artists’ moving image works take a central place in this year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, directed by newly appointed Peter Taylor.

This year’s New Contemporaries exhibition in Nottingham reveals that UK art school graduates are conscientious, striving for professionalism and seemingly unwilling to make a decisive break with current established practice. Wayne Burrows reports.

This week’s selection includes Ai Weiwei’s widely acclaimed Royal Academy show, a multi-screen installation in Liverpool, and an examination of the history of online scamming in Manchester.

Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.

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

As part of the year-long fig-2 show, which sees a new artist exhibiting every week at London’s ICA, the winner of the Student Open Call is Goldsmiths MFA student Manuel Mathieu.

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.