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The second instalment of a new weekly slot on a-n News, providing a snapshot of what’s happening internationally in the visual arts over the next seven days: 20-27 September.

This weekend sees the opening of Somerset Art Weeks, a two-week-long visual art and crafts festival with a micro-tasting feast of locally-sourced foods.

The Drawing Room in Bermondsey is set to open Outset Study – a free, open-access research hub with a specialist contemporary drawing library and study area.

Now entering its seventh year, the competition for artists born or based in the Liverpool City Region is once again seeking nominations – but this year with a slightly updated nomination process.

Kenneth Budd’s 35-metre long Chartist mural in Newport city centre took another step nearer to being demolished after the Welsh Government’s historic environment service rejected a bid to have the mural listed.

Taking place in November, the theme of this year’s engage International Conference is ‘visual arts education looking to the future’. With discounted places available for a-n members as part of a shared membership offer, we take a look forward to the conference programme.

Zeitgeist Arts Projects has announced artists selected for the second Open Exhibition, opening later this month as part of the Deptford X International Art Festival.

This year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries features the work of 46 students and recent graduates from UK art schools. Ranging from minimalist purism to a giant ‘fish finger’, it provides a snapshot of current work that delights and bemuses.

Must-see shows this week include an Artangel commission in central London that examines our reading of found objects, and Tacita Dean’s JG Ballard-inspired investigation of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.

Rachel Busby has won the £1000 overall award at The Exeter Contemporary Open 2013.

A small rural town in Derbyshire is hosting a weekend of talks, discussion and performance as part of the visual arts programme of its annual festival. We talk to the curator and one of the festival’s commissioned artists.

Introducing a new weekly slot on a-n News, providing a snapshot of what’s happening internationally in the visual arts over the next seven days: 13-19 September.

For the latest instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark pulls Simon Menner’s new publication, Top Secret, off the shelf and reflects on photographs from the Stasi archive that document the surveillance work of the former East Germany.

As part of the Great North Run Culture programme, Adam Chodzko has created a radio broadcast that imagines an eerie, watery future in which the famous North-East half-marathon is more of a swim than a run.

Svetlana Fialova has been awarded the £8,000 First Prize at Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013.

The fifth edition of The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery harnesses the energy of a fervent sector and provides an opportunity to celebrate the printed page.

Gasworks, the South London studio and exhibition/residency space, has plans to redevelop and expand the building its been based in for nearly 20 years. Before it does, though, it’s raising funds with a high-profile auction. We talk to Director Alessio Antoniolli and artist and former studio holder, Alexandre da Cunha.

This weekend, nomadic curatorial and artistic practice, Companis, presents Rude Food Fiesta – a fusion of food, performance and spectacle taking place in Birmingham. Sian Tonkin, one of the event’s organisers, provides a taster.

The In:Site festival of recent graduate work, organised by Craftspace, returns to Cathedral Square, Birmingham, for its third year. Craftspace Director Deirdre Figueiredo explains what the week-long event means to new makers and artists in the UK.

This week our recommendations include naked youths and found objects in Wakefield, a glass pavilion in the Scottish countryside, and contemporary art-themed crazy golf in Derby.

Swansea’s Art Across The City has unveiled its latest series of public art commissions, with work by Jacob Dahlgren, Juneau Projects, Laura Sorvala and Matthew Houlding.