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New Art West Midlands announces five artist prizewinners, showcasing new talent emerging from the region’s art schools.

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave wins best film award at the Oscars, but McQueen misses out on best director award.

Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.

Steve McQueen’s film about the horrors of slavery has won the Best Picture award at the BAFTAs, with the film’s star Chiwetel Ejiofor picking up Best Actor.

Jerwood Open Forest, a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England, has announced two major commissions totalling £60,000.

Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.

Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands announced as the three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award for artists working in three dimensions.

Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn has been announced as the winner of the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Emerging visual artists Leah Capaldi and Andrew Cranston are among the six recipients of the £10,000 awards.

Polly Staple, director of Chisenhale Gallery in London’s East End, has been awarded the £25,000 Genesis Award for mentoring in the arts.

As the Jerwood Open Forest competition moves to its next stage with an exhibition of five proposals opening in London, an additional £30,000 commission prize has been announced thanks to new support from Arts Council England.

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave wins Best Film award at the Golden Globes.

Three artists have been shortlisted for the seventh annual Liverpool Art Prize.

The Connect10 shortlist, matching artists with heritage and arts venues for Museums at Night events in May 2014, has been unveiled, ahead of two weeks of public voting beginning next week.

12 Years A Slave, the new feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, has been nominated for 10 BAFTAs, including best film and director.

A design duo, an architecture practice, two ceramicists and a glass artist make up the boundary-pushing shortlist of this year’s Jerwood Makers Open.

A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.

Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.

Artes Mundi, the Cardiff-based international art prize, has announced a shortlist of ten artists for the 2014 edition.

The V&A has announced Turkish fashion label Dice Kayek, established in by sisters Ece and Ayşe Ege, as the winner of the international prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic tradition.

Artists Louisa Martin and Rachel Reupke have been announced winners of the Whitstable Biennale 2014 Open Submission Award.