Winners
• The J. Paul Getty Trust is due to present the third annual Getty Medal for cultural leadership to the architect Frank Gehry at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on 28 September.
• Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse won this year’s £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for Ponte City (2014), a photobook documenting a high-rise apartment block in Johannesburg. The award was presented at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, in May. The other shortlisted artists—Nikolai Bakharev, Zanele Muholi and Viviane Sassen—each won £3,000.
• Eleven international arts patrons, including Maja Hoffmann, Dorit and Alexander Otto and Umberta Gnutti Beretta, received the 24th annual Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in a ceremony at the Kunsthalle Basel in June. Each award, presented by the Montblanc Cultural Foundation, includes €15,000 to benefit a project of the winner’s choice and a limited-edition Montblanc fountain pen.
• Beatrice Gibson and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc won the 17th Baloise Art Prize, the Baloise Group’s annual award for two young artists presenting work in the Statements section of Art Basel. They each received a cash prize of SFr30,000 (£20,000).
• The Israeli artist Matan Ben Cnaan won the 26th annual BP Portrait Award for his allegorical portrait Annabelle and Guy (2015), which was inspired by the Bible story of Jephthah and his daughter. He receives £30,000 and a portrait commission from the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Honours
• Queen Elizabeth II’s 2015 Birthday Honours included recognition for Nicholas Penny, the outgoing director of the National Gallery in London (Knight Commander of the British Empire), Maria Balshaw, the director of the Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester City Galleries (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and Simon Wallis, the director of the Hepworth Wakefield (Officer of the Order of the British Empire).
• The US sculptor Richard Serra accepted the insignia of Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in a ceremony at the French embassy in New York on 1 June. The award is the highest honour bestowed by the government of France.