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Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 returns for its third edition this September, with the theme of ‘Conflict and Compassion’.

As the degree shows season gathers pace, we take a trip to Dundee for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design show.

This week we start our journey in Manchester for a Bob and Roberta Smith curated exhibition of artwork, music and writing by prisoners and offenders, head to Brighton to enjoy the kaleidoscopic sculptural forms of Jacob Dahlgren, and end up in London where artist-in-residence Gerry Bibby is probing an art organisation’s idiosyncrasies.

a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign launches today with its own dedicated website at www.payingartists.org.uk

The sixth edition of Museums at Night begins this evening with museums, galleries and heritage sites throughout the UK taking part and playing host to various leading visual artists.

Canada’s representative bodies for artists, CARFAC and RAAV, have won their court battle with the National Gallery of Canada to set a binding minimum fee for artists.

Royal College of Art graduate Neil Raitt has been awarded the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for a new body of work, comprising large-scale abstract paintings that experiment with repetition and perspective.

Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery has responded to widespread criticism from artists and withdrawn an advert for unpaid volunteers to help install a forthcoming exhibition by Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.

a-n’s programme of professional development workshops and seminars for artists and visual arts freelancers continues this summer with new events just announced in Stoke-on-Trent and Nottinghamshire.

43 artists are in the running to win the inaugural East London Painting Prize.

Irish artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 for his haunting yet seductive work on the wartorn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Paying Artists Campaign is attracting comment across the visual arts as Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette tweets his support and others offer practical help and advice.

The recently opened Bury Sculpture Centre is sited in two large rooms that until recently were part of the Lancashire town’s central library. But while the move has prompted protests from local people, the centre’s instigator insists it is not a case of library services being cut to make way for a new art space.

Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.

This month’s top ten Artists talking blogs sees the first, second and third slots remain the same, but with new entries by Simon Fell, Nick Kaplony and Niki Dennis there’s plenty of jostling for attention.

Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.

The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.

a-n The Artists Information Company has appointed Jeanie Scott to be its new Executive Director.

The annual Cheltenham-based Open West competition and exhibition has announced four award winners across three prizes.