Taking place in Umeå city and its surroundings from 20th September to 19th October 2014, where 30 participating artists will receive exhibition fees of €300, with the possibility for production / transport costs to be covered by the organiser.
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Tate Britain scraps explanatory panels next to works of art
More paintings and sculptures go on show as part of rethink of how permanent collection is displayedVisitors to Tate Britain are in for a shock.
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Moving South Bank's skaters would be vandalism of our cultural heritage | Crispin Robinson
This tiny, reclaimed plot in central London is an inspiration and a way of life – to bulldoze it would be utterly visionlessThe first time I went to the undercroft at South Bank, the spiritual home of UK skateboarding, I was 11 years old.
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Turner prize 2013: the shortlisted artists' work - in pictures
From placard-waving dogs to tea parties with Kurt Schwitters, here's a selection of artworks by this year's four Turner prize nominees .
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Tino Sehgal dances to the fore
The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders – Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – are notThe 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense in that each of the artists are in their different ways highly accessible.
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Investment in the arts is a virtuous circle | John Kampfner
Forget principle, or social good. The economics of the government's arts cuts make no senseThe setting was perfect.