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Frances Morris, who has been part of the Tate team since joining as a curator in 1987, has been appointed the new director of Tate Modern.

This week’s must see selection includes abstract expressionism at Tate Liverpool, immersive sculpture in Edinburgh and a mass programme of events at the Barbican, London.

Artists including Charles Avery and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd to create new commissions responding to the festival theme of The Improbable City.

This year’s Frieze London art fair is as big and busy as usual, and includes some impressive booths from artworld big hitters as well as a first for a non-London English gallery. Chris Sharratt reports.

Peter Heslip, Arts Council England’s new Director of Visual Arts, oversees a portfolio of 144 funded visual arts organisations and leads on museum funding in London. Two months into his new job, and on his first day in the office after a trip to Venice, we talk to him about supporting artists, communicating with the public and the realities of the current funding environment.

S Mark Gubb, one of 23 artists who received a Venice Go and see bursary from a-n to visit the Biennale during the preview period, reviews The Encyclopedic Palace exhibition at the Arsenale and Giardini – and pops his head in at a few national pavilions, including Jeremy Deller’s English Magic show.

As the Contemporary Art Society prepares to open its first ever permanent home since it was founded in 1910, we talk to its director Paul Hobson about what the new space will mean for the organisation and its work.