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Major UK art prize awarded to Royal Academy schools student

Prizewinner Jame St Findlay receives £30,000 and a show at Claridge’s ArtSpace

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Community curators: artists chosen by public vote for exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image

Finalists will be shown on the New York museum’s media wall with visitors able to mint a fragment of each work on the Tezos blockchain

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Shortlist announced for Artes Mundi 11, the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize

The 11th edition, which will be presented at venues across Wales, sees six artists nominated for the £40,000 prize

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Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore wins the Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards

The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash

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Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim receive $250,000 Heinz Awards

Jones and Porras-Kim were selected for their rigorous works highlighting, respectively, overlooked sonic phenomena and institutional collecting practices

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'We want to lift those who take the risk for us all': Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom

The inaugural award, established by the Munch Museum in Oslo, commends the artist for works exploring the history of racial violence in Brazil

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Former Art Gallery of Ontario curator wins Canadian foundation’s curatorial award

Wanda Nanibush and the artist Curtis Santiago are the recipients of this year’s Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Awards

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Tracey Emin, who made that bed, is made a dame

Other recipients in King Charles III’s birthday honours include the philanthropist Hannah Rothschild and sculptor Andrew Logan

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Artists including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O’Grady and Park McArthur win Guggenheim Fellowships

The 28 visual artists who are now Guggenheim Fellows will receive between $30,000 and $60,000 to realise specific projects

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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama wins inaugural Sam Gilliam Award

The prize, established by Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation, comes with a $75,000 gift and public programme at Dia

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Anselm Kiefer awarded Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award for printmaking

The award recognises the artist's half-century of working with woodcuts, a lesser known aspect of his practice

Net art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim award

The Taiwan-born interdisciplinary artist’s work spans coding languages, hacking tactics, gaming engines and more

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UK New Year Honours—Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce made a dame; stained glass supremo Brian Clarke is knighted

NPG chief Nicholas Cullinan, Southbank’s Elaine Bedell and Nick Merriman of Horniman Museum all receive OBEs

Best in show: India's Experimenter gallery wins Frieze in London's top stand award

The gallery, which has spaces in Kolkata and Mumbai, is showing eight South Asian women artists on its roster at the fair

Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963

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Russell Tovey rocks up at Claridge’s to present first Royal Academy Schools art prize

Daria Blum was given the £30,000 award by the artist Marina Abramović

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Artists Kevin Beasley and Roberto Lugo win Heinz Awards, receiving $250,000 each

Beasley and Lugo—best known for their sculptures made of, respectively, textiles cast in resin and ceramics—are among the six honorees in the awards’ 28th edition

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Nominees announced for annual Freelands Award dedicated to overlooked UK women artists

The top prize of £110,000 will go to an exhibition that will take place in the next three years, with £30,000 awarded directly to the winning artist

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Artists including Sheila Hicks and Hank Willis Thomas receive US State Department's Medal of Arts

Medals were presented to five visual artists by First Lady Jill Biden at a ceremony in Washington, DC

Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

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Seven artists win lifeline Loewe Foundation/Studio Voltaire Award during cost-of-living crisis

Maz Murray and Emily Pope are among new cohort given rent-free studio space in London and a £5,000 bursary

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Arise Joe Scotland—Studio Voltaire supremo bags a King’s Birthday honour

Joe Scotland is made an MBE while Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld and Andrew Bolton at the Met are also recognised

Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG

Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology

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Chicana muralist Judith Baca receives National Medal of Arts in White House ceremony

Baca is among the 12 individuals and organisations receiving the US federal government’s top honour for artists and art patrons this year

Richard Mille Art Prize shines a spotlight on the Gulf's burgeoning art scene

The ten shortlisted artist for this year's prize are showing work in the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Winners of prize supporting rising film-makers revealed at Frieze Los Angeles

Irene Gil-Ramon wins $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award from initiative that nurtures burgeoning local talent

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Tate Modern chief Frances Morris and artist John Akomfrah recognised in UK New Year Honours list

Grayson Perry is made a knight while Turner prize nominee Ingrid Pollard gets an MBE

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National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh gets annual Freelands Award

Prize worth £110,000 enables Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to host first UK museum show dedicated to Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus