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With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd ‘Sojourn’ was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.

‘Heroes in Transition’ at Nottingham’s Angel Row Gallery brings some of Croatia’s best new artists to the UK for the first time.

Shisha will present new site-specific events for Manchester International Festival’s Manchester Firsts, through commissions for international artists Subodh Gupta and Rashid Rana.

As I was chaperoned around the 8th Sharjah Biennial: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, the Emirate reminded me of Phoenix Arizona, but instead of US patriotism pervading, Islam sits relaxingly alongside the logos of KFC, Dunkin’ Donuts, Burger King, Pizza Hut, shopping malls and building construction.

Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain will represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art.

The 2006 Art Forum Berlin – the renowned international trade fair for contemporary art organised by Messe Berlin GmbH in cooperation with an international art gallery advisory board – runs 30 September to 4 October 2006.

Caroine Wright on the exchange programme between Norwich School of Art and Design and Asagaya School of Art and Design, Tokyo.

The Visiting Arts Artist to Artist International Scheme 2006 provides the opportunity for an artist from overseas to spend a week in the UK with a UK-based artist, enabling an exchange of ideas and information and the strengthening of relationships and networks.

ArtSway at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, 8-12 June