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Art of diplomacy: Scottish printmaker Anya Gallaccio explores soft power with commission for UK embassies

Gallaccio's series was commissioned by the UK Government Art Collection, as part of the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award

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Sculptor Brian Jungen wins top Canadian art prize

The $C100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts recognises the achievements of artists from Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia

‘There’s no fudging. She deserves to win’: critics react as Turner Prize 2025 opens

Nominees for the £25,000 award were selected on the basis of what the judges felt to be the strongest and best exhibitions of the past year

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Artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt receive $250,000 Heinz Awards

Both artists will receive an unrestricted cash prize from the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation

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Actor Sharon Stone is up for the Women in Art Prize

The movie star will compete against 24 other finalists including Bianca Raffaella

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Writers for The Oklahoman, First American Art Magazine and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Nicole Martinez

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Danae Stratou wins G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2025

The Greek sculptor, known for her land art installations, has created a new permanent installation inspired by the mysterious Phaistos Disc

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Open-air museum that recreates 1950s Britain wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize

Beamish, The Living Museum of the North was commended for "remarkable attention and passion of its staff"

Sculptural works by emerging artists win Baloise Art Prize

Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa's pieces feature in Art Basel's Statements section

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Finalists for Canada’s top contemporary art prize, the Sobey Art Award, revealed

The prize, now in its 22nd year, will be the subject of a group show in Ottawa this autumn, and the winner will be revealed in November

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A personal story of loss in post-apartheid South Africa wins the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

The Johannesburg-based Magnum Photos member Lindokuhle Sobekwa claimed contemporary photography's biggest prize in London last night

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Art Basel Awards name inaugural medalists including artists, curators and patrons

The 36 medalists will be honoured at a reception during Art Basel’s Swiss fair

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Artist Alison Saar wins High Museum’s 20th annual Driskell Prize

The renowned sculptor, whose distinctive public work was most recently featured in the Desert X biennial, will be formally honoured with the $50,000 prize at a gala in September

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Immersive experience featuring ‘costumed folk’ shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize

Judges including comedian Phil Wang and artist Rana Begum selected the Beamish Museum to join four other spaces on the Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist

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Tate announces 2025 Turner Prize shortlist

The four nominated artists will take part in an exhibition in Bradford later this year as part of the UK City of Culture festival

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Prestigious prize for women artists celebrates 20 years with Florence show

The nine past winners of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women—Andrea Buttner and Laure Prouvost among them—are all presenting work at the Palazzo Strozzi

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Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee

The subject of the photograph taken for “The New York Times” is nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago

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Artists including Theaster Gates, Miranda July and Martine Gutierrez receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Around 50 artists working across disciplines including photography, video, sculpture, painting and installation received the coveted fellowships

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Inspired by the Cantonese diaspora in Europe, Lap-See Lam wins $100,000 Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award

The Swedish artist has explored ‘Westernised’ Chinese restaurants through a magical realist lens

Ayoung Kim, builder of vivid digital worlds, wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

The artist is known for creating futuristic, interactive environments that reflect on contemporary geopolitical and socioeconomic issues

Artist Fareed Armaly rejects German prize, citing ‘disturbing trend of censorship’

The Academy of Arts, stressing it rejects all censorship, says it will not award the Käthe Kollwitz prize this year

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Taking the Mick? Rolling Stones singer Jagger is a judge on Caribbean art jury

New Mustique contemporary art show and prize feature paintings by 16 artists from the region

Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize for show evoking the joy and power of coming together

The Scottish-born artist was commended for “the considered way in which she weaves together the personal, political and spiritual”

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‘Intimate, personal, nuanced, complex’: Victoria and Albert Museum reveals winner of Jameel Prize 2024

The latest edition of the £25,000 prize, awarded every three years to an artist inspired by Islamic traditions, is themed around moving image and digital media

As the no-strings Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists turn 30, it’s time to celebrate what makes them special

These awards, which have increased to £75,000 for each recipient this year, are unique in that they come with no conditions

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Photobook exploring the suffering of families in Gaza awarded top prize at Paris Photo

Taysir Batniji’s ‘Disruptions’ has been named Photobook of the Year at this year's Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards

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Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams wins Canada’s top art prize

The Montréal-based artist, known for his intricate sculptural beadwork, received the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2024

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A dual social and artistic purpose: London's Whitechapel Gallery to screen films by Jarman Award nominees

Ahead of the announcement of the 2024 Film London Jarman Award winner on 25 November, Whitechapel gallery will show entries by all six shortlisted artists

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Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman wins Ukraine's $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize

A ceremony to announce the award, which had been delayed by Russia's full-scale invasion, was held in Kyiv last week