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Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s Events section includes shoe sculptures for a museum of shoes, an artists’ book fair and site-specific works for three quarries.

Sotheby’s auction house in London set a record last night with sales of fine art that raised £130.4m. But while collectors spent millions, the company’s cleaners were demonstrating about their pay and conditions.

This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.

Underline, a 12-month programme of commissions by Art on the Underground for the Victoria line, launches this month with new works from Giles Round’s Design Work Leisure project.

ArtWorks Alliance, a new body backed by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and with a-n amongst its founding members, has been formed to promote the strategic and developmental interests of participatory arts.

This week’s must-see shows include a scene of destruction at South London Gallery, a major survey of contemporary ceramic practice in Cardiff, and a career-spanning retrospective of Dutch surrealism in Edinburgh.

This week’s selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section looks at exhibitions in Durham, Eastbourne, Newcastle, Scarborough and Southampton.

The Argentinian artist best known for his large-scale concrete and clay sculptures has won the international art prize sponsored by fine art paper manufacturer Canson.

The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme has announced its first round of placements, with the visual arts represented by The Common Guild in Glasgow and Eastside Projects in Birmingham. Richard Taylor reports.

As part of its recent Architecture Season, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced the winner of The Shed Project, a competition for young architects to create a residency space for artists.

Artists will be opening their studios to the public over the weekend, despite this year’s Hackney WickED Art Festival being cancelled.

David Shrigley’s new mascot for Glasgow football club Partick Thistle, launched at the club’s ground yesterday, has been causing a bit of a Twitter storm. Chris Sharratt reports.

A Kickstarter campaign organised by Cumbria Printmakers hopes to fund a new open access printmaking space for local artists and the wider public at Ellers Mill in Dalston. Jack Hutchinson reports.

Millions needed to prevent landscape painting of Mediterranean bay from 1880s – on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum for the last 29 years – being exported.

This week’s selection includes the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, figurative oil painting at the Serpentine and a look back at a 1970s artist project at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects.

The third triennial Daiwa Foundation Art Prize , designed to give a British artist exposure to Japan’s visual arts sector, has been awarded to Oliver Beer.

Five events by a-n’s members – posted onto the popular Events listings page – include exhibitions and events in Bolton, Grantham, Hertford, London and Somerset.

Israeli artist Matan Ben-Cnaan has won the £30,000 portrait prize for his allegorical scene inspired by the bible story of Jephthah and his daughter.

As part of LeftCoast’s Creative People and Places professional development programme, a-n will be delivering four workshops in July, including two brand-new pilot sessions on project management and freelance strategies.

Sally Lee becomes new executive director of regional branch of Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des artistes Canadiens.

The first of two summer exhibitions at the CASS, London is a high-calibre show featuring excellent curation. Jack Hutchinson reports, and finds that the student exhibitors are already planning for the future.

Glasgow School of Art’s BA Fine Art degree show, the first full showcase since last year’s fire, is across two floors of the department’s new home in the Tontine Building in the city’s east end. Chris Sharratt reports.