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This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes Russian authors as comic-strip heroes, a plein air exhibition that is taking on the British weather, and paintings of UFO conspiracists.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.

The Design and Artists Copyright Society backs calls for an international review of royalty rights for artists.

Following its successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, Spacex have selected Trevor Pitt of Pod Projects as the gallery’s first socially-engaged artist in residence.

This week’s selection includes a timely exploration of migration in London, surreal storytelling in Manchester and a homely exhibition in Cambridge.

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 a commission for a new housing scheme in west London, the Glasgow artist Nathan Coley has given each new resident a mini sculpture.

Turner Contemporary hosts a Margate edition of the Art Car Boot Fair this weekend, with work by high-profile artists including Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin.

25-ton sculpture by Mexican artist Jose Rivelino unveiled as part of four exhibitions taking place across London.

Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe festival, now in its second year, has launched a crowdfunding campaign with support from Dorset-born artist Stuart Semple.

Chinese artist and activist to unveil large-scale artwork outside the Gherkin in the City of London, as part of a festival celebrating the area’s architectural landmarks.

This week’s selection includes a modern take on Romanticism in Manchester, large-scale immersive photography in London and an exploration of our relationship to technology in Oxford.

Five events posted by a-n’s members on our popular Events listings section, including exhibitions and events in London, Eastbourne, and St Leonards-on-Sea.

The graffiti artist takes over derelict seafront lido in Weston-super-Mare for six-week show featuring Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and David Shrigley amongst others.

As part of a scheme that has seen 20 top museum jobs up for grabs across Italy, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has appointed a German art historian as its new director.

New National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi has been talking to striking workers as the indefinite strike called by the PCS union continues.

In the lead up to this year’s Turner Prize exhibition opening in Glasgow, a showcase of works by former Scottish winners and nominees will set off on a tour of Scotland in The Travelling Gallery.

Norfolk Museums Service has been awarded £81,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a digital archive of the work and journals of pioneering photographer Olive Edis.

Following comments by Chicago’s mayor about a Chinese copy of the city’s Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture being a form of ‘flattery’, the artist issues an angry statement in defence of ‘hard won creativity’.

This week’s selection includes abstract painting on a car park roof in south London, edible sculpture in Leeds and long distance communication in Southend-on-Sea.

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has announced the winners of its annual art prizes for artists working in lens-based media and water-based media, plus its annual travel award for graduates and current postgraduate students.

Commissioned projects at this year’s ‘celebration of digital culture’, which takes place in September, will include a pop-up shop selling white noise, an immersive map tracking the movement of transport infrastructure, and a work that uses the virtual world to explore human identity and post-colonialism.