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Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave wins best film award at the Oscars, but McQueen misses out on best director award.

For our latest snapshot of what’s happening internationally in the next seven days of art, we’re in Morocco, China, France and the USA.

Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest, Arion Gábor Kudász’s new monograph maps the logic of memory through a photographic exploration of his late mother’s personal belongings.

A pop-up city, anti-surveillance makeovers and talking lamp posts – the Manchester-based conference and festival of digital culture has announced details of its 2014 Art and Live programmes.

From 23 applications, 11 artists have received funding in the second round of a-n’s Re:view bursary scheme, which supports artists to develop their practice through £500-£1,000 bursaries.

A new blog initiated by the artist Emily Speed invites artists to map and explore how their networks and opportunities are made through the process of making work.

This week’s selection of must-see shows includes abstract drawing in London, two titans of modern sculpture in Warwickshire, and speculative future-gazing in Cambridge.

Our snapshot of international art action for the end of February finds us in Nimes, Stockholm, Graz, San Francisco and Madrid.

Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.

Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.

This week’s selection includes a major survey of the work of American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia in Wakefield, Tate’s Richard Hamilton blockbuster in London, and the paintings of a young Welsh artist in Cardiff.

Steve McQueen’s film about the horrors of slavery has won the Best Picture award at the BAFTAs, with the film’s star Chiwetel Ejiofor picking up Best Actor.

This week our snapshot of what’s happening internationally finds us in Madrid, Barcelona, Beirut, Zurich and New York.

For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.

Jerwood Open Forest, a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England, has announced two major commissions totalling £60,000.