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Two major contemporary art events on the Kent coast have announced dates for their 2014 editions.

An intriguing event at the Barbican Centre sees seven artists, including Haroon Mirza, Susan Philipsz and Mark Leckey, teaming up with creative technologists to develop new ideas over the course of one day.

The Ways of Seeing Climate Change event in Manchester is looking to encourage new collaborations between artists and scientists, while highlighting the positive role artists can play in our understanding of environmental issues and scientific research. We hear from the organisers and some of the artists involved.

The 2013 Turner Prize exhibition has opened at a former army barracks in Derry-Londonderry.

The recipients of the British Ceramics Biennial £10,000 AWARD for ceramicists and FRESH bursary for new graduates have been announced, with installation-based work winning all round.

Artists from across the UK will benefit from a-n bursaries specifically designed to support research and development of new collaborations within or beyond the arts. We introduce the artists and projects.

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A charity auction at Christie’s has raised more than £200,000 towards the south London-based contemporary art organisation’s campaign to own and renovate its building, with works by Chris Ofili and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exceeding highest estimates.

The second Reith Lecture for BBC Radio 4 by Grayson Perry saw the artist exploring how something is defined as a work of contemporary art.

Following a public consultation, Conrad Shawcross has been selected to create a new commission for Dulwich Park in south London, to honour and replace a stolen work by Barbara Hepworth.

As the eyes of much of the artworld were on Frieze, the artist-led Sluice Art Fair returned for its second edition, with a mission to encourage a sharing of ideas between artist-run scenes. Dany Louise reports on the weekend event in Bermondsey.

This week’s must-see shows include Tate Modern’s latest blockbuster and a Manchester show curated by Jeremy Deller that explores the impact of the Industrial Revolution.

The Social: Encountering Photography, a new festival for photography in Sunderland and north-east England, opens to the public today. We speak to the organisers, Carol McKay and Amanda Ritson about what’s in store, and offer a selection of some of the newly commissioned work.

Ten artists and designers have been shortlisted for this year’s £25,000 Jameel Prize, an international award for contemporary works inspired by Islamic tradition.

For this week’s look at the next seven days (18-24 October) on the international art scene, we’re in Paris, Brooklyn, Shanghai and the Ruhr.

Tate acquires new works by Terry Adkins, Christina Mackie, James Richards and Sturtevant through the Outset/Frieze London Fund.

A panel including the artist Richard Wentworth, art collector and patron Robert Hiscox and Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Director of Programmes Clare Lilley, have been debating who should fund public art and what its role should be.

Katerina Athanasopoulou has won the Lumen Prize 2013 for her digital fine art work that explores times of crisis through a return to Plato’s hypothesis of the human soul.

In the first of four Reith Lectures for BBC Radio 4 titled Democracy Has Bad Taste, artist Grayson Perry explored the question of who determines what is ‘good’ art, and why.

This year’s Frieze Projects, the curated programme at Frieze London art fair, is programmed by former senior curator at Serpentine Gallery, Nicola Lees. We talk to her about this year’s artists and presenting work in an art fair context.

This week’s must-see shows include a contemporary dialogue with Old Masters and the first solo UK show from an artist regarded by some as one of the most significant young American painters working today.

The annual open exhibition that’s known for touring to new exhibition venues announces winners from a shortlist of over 40 exhibitors.

This week (11-17 October), our global look at what’s happening in the visual arts takes us to Japan, USA, France and Germany.