Winners
The painter Nicole Eisenman and the photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier are among this year’s 24 MacArthur Fellows. Each fellowship, or so-called “genius grant”, comes with an unrestricted $625,000 stipend over five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme have won the 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize, receiving $100,000 for a major new commission. Their project will be shown in an exhibition at next year’s Art Dubai alongside works by the three other nominees, Dina Danish, Basir Mahmood, and Mahmoud Khaled, who each get $10,000.
The Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Nasher Prize for sculpture. A ceremony is due to take place at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas next April.
Isidoro Valcárcel Medina has won the Velázquez Prize, the Spanish culture ministry’s annual €100,000 award for lifetime achievement in visual art.
The British artist Haroon Mirza has won the Calder Prize for contemporary artists continuing the legacy of the sculptor Alexander Calder. The award, financed by the Calder Foundation and the Scone Foundation, includes $50,000, a residency at the Atelier Calder in France and the placement of a work in a major public collection.
The Nigerian-born artist Otobong Nkanga is due to receive the eighth Yanghyun Prize at the National Museum of Korea on 12 November. The South Korean award for international contemporary art includes KRW100m (£57,000) and an exhibition at a museum of the artist’s choice.
The second Leading Culture Destinations awards included prizes for the Museum of Modern Art in New York (named the overall 2015 winner) and the Whitworth at the University of Manchester (named best emerging European destination).
The Frick Art Reference Library in New York has bestowed its biennial $25,000 Book Prize for a Distinguished Publication on the History of Collecting in America on The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2011), published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press. The editors will share the prize with the essayists.
The German art historian Hans Belting is one of the four winners of the Milan-based Balzan Prizes. He is due to receive SFr750,000 (£500,000) at a ceremony in Bern, Switzerland, on 13 November.
Shortlists
Ruth Ewan, Ana Genovés, Emma Hart, Tania Kovats and Phoebe Unwin have been shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with London’s Whitechapel Gallery. The winner, to be announced in early 2016, will get a residency and a solo show at the Whitechapel and at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
New prizes
To mark its fifth anniversary in 2016, the Hepworth Wakefield is launching the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, a biennial £30,000 award open to UK-based sculptors at any stage of their career. Four shortlisted artists will present works at the museum next October, and the winner will be announced the following month.