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Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Christina Mackie won the Contemporary Art Society’s annual Commission to Collect award in 2011, and an exhibition of the work has just opened. We talk to the artist about the process of making a piece for the museum’s permanent collection.

Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery is moving to new premises on Calton Hill in the summer. Prior to that, though, there’s work to be done and funds to be raised with an auction of artists’ work. We talk to Director Kate Gray about new departures and exciting possibilities.

Egyptian-born Sam Shendi has won the FIRST@108 Public Art Award, receiving £10,000 towards the cost of producing his large-scale sculpture.

Over 30,000 votes cast to match ten artists with ten gallery events for this year’s Museums at Night festival.

The fourth edition of the biennial competition launched today at Leeds International Book Fair.

The unveiling of Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery marks the first and only instance of a Fischli/Weiss public sculpture in the UK.

Second edition of open exhibition invites work in any media from contemporary visual artists of all ages and nationalities.

Plans for a new gallery in Leicester gather momentum following Arts Council England’s £600,000 cash injection.

The selected artists have been announced for the Catlin Art Prize, an annual exhibition of UK art graduates presented one year on from their degree shows.

Modern Edinburgh Film School brings together practitioners in visual art, poetry, performance and film to explore alternative approaches to the screen. Project founder Alex Hetherington talks about community, social sculpture and his search for a sense of ‘elsewhere-ness’ in a very traditional city.

ART13 – London’s latest art fair has just launched and is jostling for attention in a crowded market.

The annual Publish and Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for the second year at ICA, London, on Saturday.

The State Hermitage Museum in the city of St Petersburg has been announced as the host of Manifesta 10.

The biennial Manchester International Festival has announced its full programme, which includes presentations by Tino Sehgal and Dan Graham, as well as a major group exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The first of two symposia as part of Collective gallery’s New Work Scotland programme for recent graduates, takes place at Tramway, Glasgow, this weekend.

New York’s Printed Matter is to host a Benefit Auction and Selling Exhibition to help mitigate damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.

As artists’ bursaries are offered for the ArtWorks conference in April, a-n’s Director shares some of the thinking and research from the ArtWorks Scotland conference, which examined value and ethics in participatory arts.