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London teenagers in cancelled prom outfits win Taylor Wessing Prize
Alys Tomlinson spent three months during lockdown taking the portrait of teenagers in the midst of their “lost summer”
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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
NewsBooks
Prizewinning Gainsborough publication shines light on lives of painter's female sitters
New book, which reveals how the Old Masters influenced the 18th-century British artist, has won the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History
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
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Deana Lawson, photographer of highly staged tableaux, wins the Hugo Boss Prize
The artist, the first photographer anointed, will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim
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Actor Russell Tovey to judge 2021 Turner Prize
Award's exhibition moves to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the year-long UK City of Culture 2021 festival
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Museums of the year: Art Fund names five joint winners of UK’s biggest arts prize
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Gairloch Museum, the Science Museum, South London Gallery and Towner Eastbourne will share £200,000 award
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
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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"
NewsPhotography
Mohamed Bourouissa wins the 2020 Deutsche Börse photography prize
French-Algerian artist awarded £30,000 prize for works about marginalised communities, including series on Paris suburbs and shoplifters in Brooklyn
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
NewsFrieze London
Alberta Whittle named the winner of this year's Frieze Artist Award
Exploring themes around the fear of contagion and xenophobia, the new film commission will debut online as part of the virtual edition of Frieze London
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Four new £1,000 awards launched for experimental UK artists
Newsprizes and contests
UK’s largest art award Artes Mundi postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus
Challenge of transporting works and artists means £40,000 prize now scheduled for spring next year
NewsPrizes
Five museums will share £200,000 as Art Fund reboots 2020 prize to battle coronavirus crisis
Museum of the Year prize has been changed from £140,000 awards and the shortlist will be announced in October
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Turner prize 2020 is cancelled and replaced with £100,000 fund for artists
Ten £10,000 "Turner Bursaries" to be announced late June
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Hong Kong artist's sombre still life with a tear gas canister vase wins Human Rights arts prize
Jeremy Deller judged the sixth edition which is backed by the European Union
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Artist Gary Hume says National Portrait Gallery should 'bite the bullet' and cut ties with oil giant BP
Fuel company's decision to withdraw from the BP Portrait Award judging panel was a missed opportunity to end sponsorship relationship, artist believes
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Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight wins Pulitzer prize
Writer was recognised for his criticism of Lacma’s controversial expansion plan
NewsCoronavirus resources
Awards and prizes are being launched to help UK artists during the Covid-19 pandemic—here's how you can apply
Several UK organisations have created new grants or tweaked existing ones because of the coronavirus crisis
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Citing Covid-19, Canada's Sobey Art Award increases prize to almost $500,000 and shares it among 25 longlisted artists
The Canadian "Turner Prize" made the one-off decision to reflect the "profound impact" that the pandemic is having on artists' livelihoods
NewsMorocco
Marrakesh loses title of first African Capital of Culture after Moroccan government steps in
Rabat is given the accolade just a just a week before celebration events were scheduled to take place
ReviewBooks
Revamped art book prize wants to become the Oscars of arts publications—is it succeeding?
A year on from its announcement, we look at whether the Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards is meeting its ambitions
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
NewsTurner Prize
In shock move, all four nominated artists win Turner Prize 2019
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani will share the UK’s most prestigious art prize
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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
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Stephanie Comilang claims Canada’s Sobey Art Award
The Toronto- and Berlin-based artist expressed relief after winning C$100,000 contemporary art prize: "I don’t have to worry financially now"
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MoMA director Glenn Lowry edges out Nan Goldin to top Art Review's Power 100 list
Banksy makes his debut at number 14 while dealer David Zwirner drops from first place to fifth
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Sotheby's Prize awarded to two exhibitions exploring indigenous Brazilian cultures
The $250,000 prize money will be shared between several São Paulo organisations
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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
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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
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Canada’s largest art prize, the Sobey Art Award, heads west
An exhibition of the shortlisted artists is now on view at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta
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Shortlist announced for Artes Mundi 9, the UK's biggest contemporary art prize
Artists in the running for the £40,000 award include Carrie Mae Weems, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
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Mona Hatoum and William Kentridge among international recipients of £100,000 Japanese art prize
The Praemium Imperiale Award will be presented in Tokyo in October
BlogIn the frame
Blow-up Tina Turner comes to Margate in time for the Turner Prize
NewsArt fairs
Himali Singh Soin named winner of the Frieze Artist Award
The commission marks the first time the prize has been awarded for a film, which will debut in October as part of the fair's Projects section
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
NewsPrizes
Franco-British charity Fluxus Art Projects flies flag for joint culture projects pre Brexit
Artists Lubaina Himid and Tarek Atoui receive funding awards
BlogIn the frame
Queen's birthday honours: Rachel Whiteread is made a Dame with awards also for Glenn Brown and Ralph Rugoff
NewsPrizes
New Japanese art prize chooses inaugural emerging artist winners ahead of $1 million award
Chinese new media artist Cheng Ran and US artist Cameron Rowland receive $100,000 Nomura Emerging Artist Awards with world’s biggest art prize to be announced in October
NewsPrizes
Susan Meiselas wins the 2019 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
The US photographer has been awarded the £30,000 prize for her retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris
NewsTurner Prize
Turner Prize nominees give 'voice to the marginalised’
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani have been shortlisted for this year’s award
News
Regional institutions dominate shortlist for £100,000 Museum of the Year award
Northern Ireland's HMS Caroline and V&A Dundee among five finalists for the Art Fund's annual prize
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David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado named in Time 100 list of most influential people
Yorkshire-born Hockney named an “icon” for being the most expensive living artist at auction, exhibiting with Van Gogh and creating pioneering iPad works
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Jimmie Durham given top Venice Biennale gong
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award given for incisive take on today’s political climate
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Shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize announced
Six artists in line for Uli Sigg’s $64,000 Chinese contemporary art prize
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Caravaggio in the flesh at The Art Newspaper Russia’s annual prize ceremony
Actors, musicians, dancers and a famous Moscow film director, combined with lighting wizardry, celebrate the Russian art world
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Works by finalists competing for $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize go on show in Kiev
The winner will be announced in March and an updated version will go on show in Venice during the Biennale
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Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins £40,000 Artes Mundi prize
His film Invisibility is a nuanced examination of political corruption and restrictions on free speech
NewsUSA
Reviving the "small town USA"
Artist aims to rebuild community in Nebraska town
InterviewArtist interview
Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández: 'death to planned obsolescence'
The Design Miami Visionary award-winners tell us about their projects at the fair
AnalysisTurner Prize
'I wouldn’t be here were it not for public funding': Turner Prize-winner Charlotte Prodger makes case for state support for the arts
Glasgow-based artist won the coveted award for her intimate videos filmed entirely on an iPhone
FeatureQueen Sonja of Norway
By royal command: how Queen Sonja of Norway is raising the profile of printmaking
As the winner of her eponymous award is announced, the artist-royal discusses her passion for the medium and her collaboration with other Norwegian artists
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Kapwani Kiwanga takes home the Sobey Art award
Canada’s top prize for artists under 40 was doubled this yearto C$100,000
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The 2018 biennial Hugo Boss Prize goes to Simone Leigh
The artist’s work draws upon the visual culture of the black diaspora, ideas of beauty, ethnographic research and feminist discourse
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Clément Cogitore wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s leading contemporary art prize
French artist uses hundreds of images of stock photography
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Read the winning essays in new UK prize for art history writing
Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools
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Pierre Alechinsky and Fujiko Nakaya win £100,000 Japanese Praemium Imperiale art prize
Cobra group co-founder and fog sculpture pioneer among five laureates given the prestigious annual award
News
Tate St Ives wins Art Fund Museum of the Year award
Judges praise “breathtakingly beautiful” extension and the way the museum is “embedded in its community”
AnalysisFunding
Lauded, but not loaded: being shortlisted for a major prize does not solve a museum's money worries
Being part of the Museum of the Year brings kudos and a big PR boost, but some finalists have still found the financial going tough
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
Tate St Ives: a deeper community connection on the Cornish coast
After a bumpy start, the extension to the Tate’s westernmost outpost has been welcomed and is now enabling the gallery to reach its full potential
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
The Postal Museum: a ride into the story of mail that really delivers
The newly opened museum takes visitors on a journey underground and reflects major shifts in the nature of human connection
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
Glasgow Women’s Library: a museum for the #MeToo era
The library shows that grassroots museums can take a gutsy stand and contribute to global debates
AnalysisArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
What swung it? Former Museum of the Year judges reveal the qualities that led to the winners
All museums and galleries do important work—so what makes a truly visionary organisation?
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
Brooklands Museum: a paean to the pioneers of motoring and aviation
A historic motor-racing circuit, Concorde and 4D experiences combine to provide a day out of old-school charm with contemporary quirks
Analysis
When less is a great deal more: in praise of the small museum
Sarah Crompton, a former Museum of the Year judge, recalls her voyage of discovery across the UK
NewsEducation
$1m award-winning teacher brings high-profile artists and cultural figures into deprived London schools
Andria Zafirakou’s Artists in Residence campaign launches as creative arts are squeezed in UK classrooms
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Are art awards really worth winning?
Winning a prize can give an artist international exposure, but the question of who really benefits—critically and commercially—is an increasingly vexed one
NewsPrizes
Wanted: nominations for World Monuments Fund’s Modernism prize
The biennial award was established to help preserve Modern architecture
NewsFrieze New York
And the Frieze New York stand prizes go to… Nuno Centeno and Jhaveri Contemporary
The jury applauded the Indian and Portuguese galleries for presentations that were "bold" and showed "the spirit of risk"
NewsPrizes
Women, cars and revamped spaces: the Art Fund releases Museum of the Year shortlist
Recently renovated Tate St Ives and Hull's Ferens Art Gallery are among £100,000 prize's five contenders
CommentTurner Prize
Who should win, who will win, and how smartphones dominate Turner Prize shortlist
Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees
NewsTurner Prize
Migration and police shootings tackled in highly political Turner Prize 2018 shortlist
Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger and Luke Willis Thompson nominated for £25,000 award
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MCA Chicago launches Dunya Contemporary Art Prize and names first winner, Sophia Al-Maria
The $100,000 award recognises mid-career artists from the Middle East and its diaspora
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Artists shortlisted for 2018 BMW Art Journey
Astha Butail, the winner of last year's prize, is previewing her upcoming project at Art Basel Hong Kong
NewsPrizes
British art teacher wins $1m prize
In accepting the award, Andria Zafirakou asked for more support for the “power of the arts” in schools, particularly in poor communities
NewsArmory Extra 2018
Cape Town gallery blank projects wins $10,000 Presents Booth Prize
The space is showing works that touch on identity by the South African artists Igshaan Adams and Cinga Samson
BlogDiary
Dispatch from Dhaka: five highlights from the fourth Art Summit
The gathering—dubbed the Davos of the art world—kicks off in Bangladesh
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Crystals and contemplation: Mona Hatoum celebrated as Whitechapel Gallery’s 2018 Art Icon
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Bloomberg New Contemporaries show opens in edgy new Brixton venue
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David Adjaye's Museum of African American History wins prestigious Beazley Design prize
Smithsonian institution was inaugurated by President Obama in 2016
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Shortlist announced for BMW Art Journey prize
Winner is to be announced early next year
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Miami’s YoungArts foundation creates grant to mentor artists fresh out of school
Daniel Arsham will also mentor the winners, including the inaugural fellow Shenequa
CommentTurner Prize
Lubaina Himid's win is richly deserved but raises questions about the future of the Turner Prize
It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones
NewsPrizes
Lubaina Himid wins 2017 Turner Prize for 'uncompromising' approach to race relations
At 63, she is the oldest artist to receive the Tate's prestigious £25,000 award
NewsPrizes
Knight Foundation awards $2.5m in grants to realise 43 Miami art projects
Funding will help bring the Creative Time Summit to South Florida, back a show on the Cuban artist José Antonio Aponte, and finance a “wine club for art” subscription collecting service
BlogIn the frame
You be the jury: New Yorkers ready to vote for art that promotes social change
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Celebration and self-deprecation at Apollo Awards
NewsArtists
Photographer and activist Zanele Muholi wins France’s top cultural award
South African LGBT champion receives Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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New prize looks to put art history back on UK’s academic agenda
Judges, including Jeremy Deller, hope that Write on Art will inspire young people to take up the subject
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Berlin Nationalgalerie prize nominees troubled by focus on gender and nationality
Four shortlisted artists issue statement calling for more money, less show
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First Nation artist Ursula Johnson wins Canada’s $50,000 Sobey Award
The prize recognises artists under 40 from each of the country’s five regions
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Dig for victory: artist duo win Prix Marcel Duchamp with urban excavation-themed work
French-Lebanese couple among shortlist of artists who were all born outside France
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Three artists awarded $625,000 MacArthur “genius” grants
Dawoud Bey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Trevor Paglan recognised for “extraordinary originality”
NewsFrieze 2017
Abraaj Group Art Prize celebrates tenth edition
2018 award goes to Lawrence Abu Hamden
NewsPrizes
The four artists shortlisted for the 2017 Nationalgalerie Preis show their work in Berlin
The artists’ proposals range from videos of a talking earth and sun to a functioning hair and nail salon
CommentTurner Prize
Could the joint win sound the death knell for the Turner Prize?
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani's decision to share the prize reflects the collective nature of their work, but how this could impact the future of the award remains to be seen
Louisa Buck