New Year’s Honours A number of leading figures in the UK art scene were named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list, recognised for their services to philanthropy, museums and higher education.
The art historian Roy Strong, a former director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH).
The sculptor Phyllida Barlow, who is also a professor at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Pim Baxter, the deputy director of the National Portrait Gallery, Irene McAra-McWilliam, the head of the school of design and the director of design innovation at Glasgow School of Art, Godfrey Worsdale, the director of the Henry Moore Foundation, and the collector and philanthropist Anita Zabludowicz were made Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Winners The German-born US artist Kiki Smith and the French conceptual artist Bernar Venet have won the 2016 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. The prize is due to be presented in New York on 29 February.
The US artist Joan Jonas has been announced as the Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon 2016. The award is due to be presented at a gala on 25 February.
The US artist, poet and activist Jimmie Durham has won the 2016 Goslar Kaiserring Award. It includes a show at the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar, Germany.
The 2015 William H. Johnson Prize, which supports early-career African-American artists, has been awarded to Nicole Miller.
Magali Reus has been named as the winner of the 2015 Prix de Rome, which supports contemporary Dutch artists. She receives a €40,000 cash prize and a residency at the American Academy in Rome.
The Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco has won the 2016 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art. The $30,000 award takes the form of a commission for a new work, which will first be shown at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, in 2018.
Andreas Greiner is the winner of the 2016 Gasag Art Award. The German artist is due to have a solo show at Berlinische Galerie during Berlin Art Week in September.
The Australian-born, France-based artist Mel O’Callaghan has won the SAM Prize for Contemporary Art 2015. The prize includes a show at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo in 2017.
Alejandro Aravena, the Chilean architect and curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, has won the 2016 Pritzker Prize. He is due to receive the award, which includes $100,000, in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York in April.
Shortlists The four nominees for the Premio Maxxi 2016 are Riccardo Arena, Ludovica Carbotta, Adelita Husni-Bey and the Zapruder collective. The artists will produce site-specific works to be shown in September, and one will be chosen for the permanent collection of Rome’s MaXXI museum in January 2017.