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Turner Prize nominee Helen Marten wins inaugural £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

Young artist beats off competition for the UK award from veterans Phyllida Barlow and David Medalla but pledges to share prize

Bedwyr Williams's futuristic city stands out on Artes Mundi prize shortlist

Cardiff-based international competition focuses on the human condition

Anicka Yi awarded 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

Jury for prize, given by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, admired how experiments in artist’s work “push the limits of perceptual experience in the ‘visual’ arts”

Foam machines, scented curtains and cherry pips feature in first Hepworth Prize for Sculpture show

Four artists have been shortlisted for new £30,000 award, from Turner-Prize-nominated Helen Marten to veteran Filipino sculptor David Medalla

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Peripatetic curator Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview's 2016 Power 100 list

Three artists—Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans and Ai Weiwei—are in the top ten this year

Kader Attia wins France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize

All four shortlisted artists share a dual cultural identity—a clear political statement by the jury at a time of rising nationalism and tensions over immigration

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Rana Begum wins Abraaj prize

The artist was part of the award's first ever all-female shortlist

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‘Enigmatic’ French artist Pierre Huyghe wins $100,000 Nasher Prize for sculpture

One of the key representatives of “relational aesthetics”, the artist will receive the award in Dallas in April

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Introducing the MacArthur Foundation’s 'geniuses' of 2016

Recipients of the $625,000 grant include a video artist, a graphic novelist, a sculptor, an art book writer, an art historian and jewellery maker

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Obama to present awards to abstract painter Jack Whitten and choreographer Ralph Lemon

The National Medal of Arts ceremony at the White House will be live streamed next week

South Korean artist wins Cern residency prize

His project will harness the European science laboratory’s capabilities

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Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad wins Jameel Art Prize

The exhibition of shortlisted artists is now on view at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, before starting an international tour

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Female artists—and sculpture—dominate Turner Prize shortlist

Josephine Pryde, Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton and Helen Marten are in the running for prestigious award

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Five art spaces shortlisted for UK's premier museum prize

York Art Gallery, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum and Bristol's Arnolfini among the contenders for Art Fund prize<br>

Montblanc steps up its art patronage

Luxury brand recruits curators to re-energise and expand corporate collection

Theaster Gates wins Germany’s Kurt Schwitters Prize

The award includes an exhibition for the Chicago artist at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover in late 2017

Prestigious Vincent Award suspended after legal row between artist Danh Vo and collector Bert Kreuk

Two artists had pulled out of the prize, with one citing the dispute as a reason

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New £100,000 prize to give female artists mid-career boost

Elisabeth Murdoch’s initiative embraces artists that other awards overlook

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky pulled from Russia’s top art prize

Removal of artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square has drawn criticism

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Assemble wins UK’s Turner Prize

The artist collective has worked with local communities on neighbourhood regeneration projects

Design is about the human intent

Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer behind Jawbone’s Up fitness tracker and One Laptop Per Child, is the winner of Design Miami’s 2015 Visionary Award