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New Prime Minister Theresa May’s inaugural cabinet sees former accountant and tax manager Karen Bradley take on the portfolio for culture, media and sport.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Arts Council England make changes to length of funding agreements, artists call for Israel to release detained Palestinian poet, and Pokémon Go causes increase in visitors to museums.

The programme for the 2016 edition of Bristol Biennial offers expanded notions of audience participation under the theme In Other Worlds.

Salford-based artist Maurice Carlin announced Clore Visual Artist Fellow supported by a-n, as the prestigious leadership development programme reveals its fellows for 2016/17.

Bluecoat Display Centre announces North West based ceramic artist as winner of inaugural craft competition.

The London-based artist Gillian Best Powell, founder of Cor Blimey Arts and Core Gallery in Deptford, has died aged 60.

This week’s selection includes landscapes in Eastbourne, portraiture at the Royal Academy and art meets science in Glasgow.

This year’s Liverpool Biennial is busy, lively and timely, sprawling across 27 sites and featuring a broad range of cleverly realised works. Chris Sharratt reports from the city and selects five highlights.

Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Birmingham, Co. Durham, Exeter, Sevenoaks and Southampton.

A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Parliament debates the EBacc’s omission of creative subjects for almost three hours, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli barred from leaving country ahead of London visit, and pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years.

Wiltshire based artist wins biennial open submission prize, taking home £25,000, with the other prizewinners each receiving £2,500.

This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Artists Amy Sharrocks and Clare Qualmann have initiated the Walking Women project in order to place women artists within the walking art canon. Pippa Koszerek speaks to them about their practical and utopian mission in advance of their events at Somerset House next week.

Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.

Manchester School of Art graduate Becca Halliwell-Sutton has won the £20,000 Woon Prize, hosted by Northumbria University at Baltic 39 in Newcastle.

This week’s selection includes emerging Midlands artists working with photography, 500 years of painters’ paintings at the National Gallery, and Imran Qureshi’s work on paper and canvas in Cornwall.

DACS Foundation’s Art360 project has awarded funding to 26 artists and estates in the 2016 round of funding for its three-year project, which aims to support the preservation of artists’ archives.