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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

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Moca Los Angeles announces recipients of new environmental art prize

The artists Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière will each receive $100,000 and exhibit new work at the museum

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American Civil War-era bread and heroic migration: Deutsche Börse Prize nominees announced

Four international artists have made the shortlist for the award, worth £30,000

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President Biden awards National Medal of Arts to artists including Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems and Alex Katz

It's the highest honour awarded by the US federal government to artists in a wide range of disciplines and art patrons

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Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence

German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

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Lisa Nandy: 'We want to get the nation’s great artworks out of the basement and into our communities'

The UK culture secretary named Denzil Forrester as the winner of the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024 at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport

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'This year is particularly special': art prize exhibition delayed by Russian invasion opens in Kyiv

In the midst of an ongoing war, the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Prize will award $100,000 to one of 21 shortlisted artists

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Artists Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson and Wendy Red Star among winners of 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grants'

Each MacArthur fellow receives $800,000 in unrestricted funds, making it one of the most important prizes available to artists

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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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Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo win £73,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, covers five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

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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

Young V&A wins UK Art Fund Museum of the Year prize

The prize rewards a space for children that “will cement museums as places they belong and feel welcome as they grow up, regardless of their background”

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Artists Christi Belcourt, Joe Average and bill bissett receive one of Canada’s highest honours

The artists—and pop star Avril Lavigne—were among 83 new appointees to the Order of Canada

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As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?

Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world

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

From an initial field of 30 nominees, a shortlist of just six artists is now competing for the prize

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Queen Sonja of Norway calls art a ‘unifying force in turbulent times’

The monarch was speaking at her biannual printmaking award ceremony, where Anselm Kiefer received a lifetime achievement award

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Artist Sable Elyse Smith wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth and Flag Art Foundation Prize

In addition to the prize money, the interdisciplinary artist will receive a solo show that debuts at The Contemporary Austin in Texas, then travels to the Flag Art Foundation in New York

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South African artist wins prestigious photo prize for 'risk-taking' Apartheid work

Lebohang Kganye was selected for the Deutsche Börse award for her exhibition shown last year in Amsterdam

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Pool of artists vying for Canada’s top art prize expands with addition of new regional category

Thirty artists are nominated for the Sobey Art Award this year, with the total purse for the award growing to C$465,000

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Young V&A makes shortlist for UK museum of the year prize

The shortlist of five for Art Fund's ₤120,000 award also includes the Craven Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, the National Portrait Gallery and the Manchester Museum

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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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$500,000 Getty Prize grant goes to juvenile justice non-profit the Arts for Healing and Justice Network

Artist Mark Bradford said he picked AHJN for the grant because of its work to "transform young people’s lives through the power of arts education”

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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