NewsResidencies
Looking for free artist studio space in central London? A new scheme could help out
New award backed by Spanish fashion brand Loewe will fund workspaces for seven artists at Studio Voltaire
NewsArtists
Two non-profits team up to offer $100,000 grants to artists in the San Francisco Bay Area
Annual stipends will benefit creators struggling with an astronomical cost of living in the region, which is facing an artistic exodus
NewsObituaries
Donald R. Sobey, one of Canada’s greatest cultural philanthropists, has died, aged 86
The son of the Sobey’s grocery chain founder was a huge supporter of artists, and helped establish the country’s main art prize
NewsPhotography
A year after Covid-19 is confirmed as a pandemic, World Press Photo prize reminds us of photography's vital role in playing witness to history
Highest prize for photojournalism includes images from 28 countries that capture a year when the coronavirus intertwined with global issues of social injustice and territorial conflicts
NewsPrizes
First art prize dedicated to female African artists launches today
Accra-based Gallery 1957 organises prize to celebrate its fifth birthday, with all-star jury set to announce cash prizes for three winners
NewsPrizes
A derelict James Bond island and creative uses for scrapped airplanes: winners of the 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize announced
The 165 submissions to Sir John Soane’s Museum show that drawing is far from dead
NewsPrizes
Tanoa Sasraku wins Futures Award for 'haunting' minstrel videos and defiant Ghanaian flags
The 25-year-old Black British artist was awarded first prize worth £10,000
NewsAwards
Singer RM from Korean boyband BTS named 'art sponsor of the year'
The Bangtan Boys musician was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September
NewsAwards
UK New Year’s Honours 2021: awards for artists Michael Landy and Denzil Forrester
Former Tate Britain chief Stephen Deuchar is knighted; curator Lesley Fitton and ceramicist Jennifer Lee also recognised
NewsPrizes
New art prize allows London's National Gallery to tour Dutch masterpiece around UK
Tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset wants to shake up long-standing museum models through the ambitious award
NewsPrizes
Exiled Kurdish artist—who smuggled paintings from her Turkish jail cell—wins inaugural Carol Rama Award
Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for nearly three years under terrorism charges for work of art shared on Twitter
InterviewArtists
‘Prison is boring as hell’: Sarah Lucas on isolation and judging art by inmates
The artist speaks about her role in judging the Koestler Awards for art made by UK prisoners and the importance of creativity in confinement
NewsAwards
Martin Bailey—The Art Newspaper's correspondent—awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Other art world honourees include painter Frank Bowling; Artist Support Pledge founder Matthew Burrows; and Sally Shaw, the director of Firstsite in Colchester
NewsPrizes
Cameroonian curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung awarded Berlin's highest state award
Ndikung, who founded Berlin art space SAVVY Contemporary, dedicated The Order of Merit of Berlin award to the "displaced people of Anglophone Cameroon"
NewsAwards
French tech entrepreneur funds new €150,000 award for European cultural institutions focused on 'digital and environmental impact'
Public and private European organisations—including UK and Switzerland— are encouraged to apply before the deadline later this month
Newsprizes and contests
Venice Biennale awards Golden Lions to the late curators Okwui Enwezor and Germano Celant
Honour bestowed on four previous artistic directors of the international exhibition
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Four new £1,000 awards launched for experimental UK artists
NewsAwards
UK New Year’s Honours 2020: awards for ceramicist Magdalene Odundo and artist David Shrigley
Turner prize winner Steve McQueen made a knight; museum chief Tim Marlow and curator Ann Gallagher also recognised
NewsAwards
Hepworth Wakefield to stage 'long overdue' survey of Hannah Starkey with £100,000 Freelands Award
Show comes "at an exciting moment" as the photographer is reassessing her art in light of recent political events, museum's director says
NewsDonald Trump
Trump awards National Medal of Arts for the first time since taking office
But not a single visual artist is on the list of honourees, which were reportedly chosen without regard to the nominating council's recommendations
NewsPrizes
Shortlist for Hugo Boss Prize is announced
Whoever wins will receive $100,000, an exhibition at the Guggenheim, and a stamp of approval from one of the world's most prestigious awards
NewsAwards
Torkwase Dyson wins Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
She is the fourteenth artist to win the award, joining a roster including Simone Leigh, Leslie Hewitt, and Lorna Simpson.
NewsPrizes
Sotheby's Prize awarded to two exhibitions exploring indigenous Brazilian cultures
The $250,000 prize money will be shared between several São Paulo organisations
NewsPrizes
Doris Salcedo wins world’s largest contemporary art prize of $1m
Nomura Art Award enables Colombian artist to create Acts of Mourning works in remote regions
NewsPrizes
Ikon Gallery wins £125,000 grant to put on 'dream' show of overlooked Renaissance master Carlo Crivelli
Birmingham institution is first recipient of new Ampersand Foundation Award that enables UK museums to realise a major project
NewsMuseums & Heritage
St Fagans National Museum of History wins Art Fund Museum of the Year award
The Cardiff museum is the first Welsh winner of the £100,000 prize, beating other finalists including V&A Dundee and Pitt Rivers Museum
NewsAwards
UK New Year’s Honours 2019: artists awarded include Sonia Boyce, Gillian Wearing, Tacita Dean and Alison Wilding
Museum professionals recognised include Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum group, who is made a knight
NewsAwards
Cerith Wyn Evans wins 2018 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
New £30,000 award goes to the established Welsh artist who has “moved into new territory”
NewsFrieze London 2018
Tate acquires four works at Frieze London’s VIP opening
Contemporary Art Society buys Kehinde Wiley film for The Box in Plymouth, while first Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist prizewinner is also announced
BlogIn the frame
Unseen photography gongs awarded to Jaakko Kahilaniemi and Alexey Shlyk
BlogIn the frame
New bill shows Aretha Franklin bi-partisan respect
NewsAwards
Freelands Foundation powers UK non-profits with £1.5m cash boost for emerging artists
Founder Elisabeth Murdoch’s appointment to Arts Council England governing body cleared by commissioner
NewsAwards
New Year’s Honours 2018: land art trailblazer Richard Long is made a knight
Other recipients include the gallerists Jane Hamlyn and Victoria Miro
ArchiveTate
Thirty-year wait for Turner catalogue almost over?
The Tate says all detailed entries will be available online by 2014, but critics fear loss of scholarship
ArchiveIran
An interview with Anahita Razmi, winner of the Frieze Art Fair's Emdash Award '11
How a 12-screen video installation on show at Frieze was filmed despite Iran’s strict regime
ArchiveCambodia
Chronological milestones in Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos art worlds
From 1954 to 2007
ArchiveBarbara Kruger
Kruger's lifetime achievement award a little less luminous
Disappointment taints her upcoming Golden Lion award
ArchiveCalder Prize
Calder Prize to benefit artists and museums
The biennial award will be a hefty $50,000
ArchiveAwards
Shortlist chosen for “best catalogue” prize
Last year, the winner of The Art Newspaper/AXA Art prize was The American Sublime, held at Tate Britain
ArchiveTurner Prize
The Turner Prize 2002
Tate Britain gives a taste of the work of these young artists
ArchiveAwards
American Sublime wins Art Newspaper/AXA Art prize
Tate Publishing shines in first year of competition for £5000 award
ArchiveAwards
Mitchell Prize names David Anfam winner for Rothko catalogue raisonné that “sets new standards”
Adriaen de Vries takes the new award for the outstanding exhibition catalogue
ArchiveMuseums
Philip Morris Companies Inc. receives award for their continued sponsorship of art from The Whitney Museum of American Art
The selection of the tobacco corporation as first winner is testament to its long-term relationship with the museum