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Bhutanese artist Pem Lham wins Rubin Museum's prize for Himalayan art

The $30,000 unrestricted cash prize will be awarded at a ceremony with the Queen of Bhutan in attendance

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Writers for Artforum, The New York Times and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

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

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Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy win art world’s ‘Nobel Prizes’

Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose past projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, was also a winner of one of this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards

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Three UK arts organisations receive new £100,000 Freelands Foundation education award

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Burton and Signal are the inaugural recipients of the Freelands Award

The Armory Show will launch two museum acquisition prizes at upcoming fair

The Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Bronx Museum will acquire works next month from the fair’s Focus and Presents sections, respectively

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Online art competition raises millions for charity—and many questions

“The People’s Artist”, an online competition with Johnny Depp as its spokesperson, pulled in thousands of entrants with promises of an exhibition and magazine coverage

Competition invites children across the UK to reimagine Bayeux Tapestry's lost panel

Winning primary school classes will receive a free trip to the British Museum in London to see the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as a funded visit to the Battle of Hastings site

Prize for emerging artists at Art Basel quietly cancelled

Dealers in the fair's Statements section say they were informed at the last minute that the Baloise Art Prize has been discontinued

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Nigerian artist Omolola Coker wins inaugural Myma Art Prize

The new prize, which includes $5000 and a residency in Benin City, was open to artists living in Ghana and Nigeria

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

The six shortlisted artists, each representing a different region, will be featured in an exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Canada in September

Untitled Art will launch four new prizes at Houston fair's second edition

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

More than 70 Venice Biennale artists withdraw from awards

Walid Raad, Alice Maher and Alfredo Jaar are among those who have signed a protest statement in solidarity with the resignation of the exhibition's jury

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Nominees for the Turner Prize 2026 announced by Tate

This year’s selection includes a “strong emphasis on sculptural practice”, says the Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson

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Art Basel reveals 33 medalists for second edition of its awards

The shortlist for the Art Basel Awards spans artists, curators and collectors ahead of the June ceremony in Basel

Trevor Paglen wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

The artist and investigator of digital surveillance infrastructures will deliver a hybrid lecture-performance at the Guggenheim in New York in May

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Artist Princess Pea wins inaugural Swali Craft Prize

The Chanakya School of Craft has partnered with India Art Fair to offer the $12,000 award

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US National Portrait Gallery reveals winner of its triennial portraiture award

The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s

Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award

The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize honours the famous Addis Ababa building’s decade-long, $57m renovation

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Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2026

The recipients—who work across visual art, performance, design, music and film—will also benefit from a two-year mentorship programme

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Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar wins UK’s Artes Mundi prize

Paucar’s works and those of five other shortlisted artists are on show at venues across Wales

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Shortlist announced for Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s biggest art prize

Five artists are in the running for the prize, which offers €35,000 and an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris to the winner

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Heidi Lau and Wong Ping both win M+ Sigg Prize

Six artists were shortlisted for Chinese contemporary art prize worth $130,000

Napoles Marty wins Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize

The prize, presented in partnership with Nxthvn, includes a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles and $25,000

Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary wins French art prize at Art Basel Miami Beach

The prize is awarded annually to a French artist exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach

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New £200,000 contemporary art prize is biggest in UK

The Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize is open to artists of any age, based anywhere worldwide, who have been exhibiting professionally for less than ten years

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Tania Willard wins Canada’s top contemporary art prize

The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream”

What does winning an arts prize really mean?

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

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Home, belonging, displacement, community: Artes Mundi exhibitions open across Wales

Works by the six international artists shortlisted for the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize can be seen at five venues, including the National Museum Cardiff

Everyone’s a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London

We take stock of who has won what, from the Tate Frieze Fund to the Circa 2025 prize

Artists Gala Porras-Kim, Jeremy Frey and Tuan Andrew Nguyen among winners of 2025 MacArthur ‘genius grants'

Other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships this year include the photographer Matt Black, the artist and film-maker Garrett Bradley and the social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson