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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

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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