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This weekend’s Manchester Contemporary art fair has got more galleries and artists than ever, and it’s in a new venue, too. Chris Sharratt reports.

Vane and Breeze Creatives are taking over Durham’s Old Shire Hall for an art fair and auction, with proceeds going towards the creation of The Experimental Studio – a purpose-built work space for resident artists in Vane’s Newcastle space.

The Other Art Fair returns to the Old Truman Brewery for its second year during ‘Frieze week’ in October, while this year’s Frieze Art Fair includes the fair’s inaugural Artist Award winner and a new Live programme.

Now on its sixth edition, The Other Art Fair has a selection committee made up of artists and provides a platform for emerging talent to present and sell their work. Director Ryan Stanier explains its approach.  

This week, our global roving eye takes us to Estonia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Colombia.

For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.

This week (6-12 December) our snapshot of international art activity takes us to Seoul, Miami, Amsterdam and Villeurbanne in France.

For our latest global snapshot of the next seven days (15-21 November 2013) in contemporary art, we’re in Seoul, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, New York and Milan.

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.

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.

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.

Now on its sixth edition, this year’s Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair includes, for the first time, work by internationally renowned ceramicist and Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer, Stephen Dixon.

This week’s look at the next seven days (4-10 October 2013) on the international art scene takes us to Italy, the USA, Austria and South Korea, with events, art fairs and new permanent commissions.

The just announced commissioned projects for this year’s Frieze London art fair have a child-friendly, playful feel.

Buy Art Fair and The Manchester Contemporary will return to the Spinningfields area of the city in September and include a tours programme hosted by Manchester Art Galleries and the Contemporary Art Society.

Now in its final year, Art Fund Collect sees curators competing for funds to purchase a piece from COLLECT – the international art fair for contemporary objects. Crafts Council Director Rosy Greenlees and Yvonne Hardman, one of last year’s winners, talk about the impact of the scheme.

London’s leading artist-led fair springs into step.