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David Adjaye's Museum of African American History wins prestigious Beazley Design prize

Smithsonian institution was inaugurated by President Obama in 2016

Miami’s YoungArts foundation creates grant to mentor artists fresh out of school

Daniel Arsham will also mentor the winners, including the inaugural fellow Shenequa

Lubaina Himid's win is richly deserved but raises questions about the future of the Turner Prize

It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones

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Lubaina Himid wins 2017 Turner Prize for 'uncompromising' approach to race relations

At 63, she is the oldest artist to receive the Tate's prestigious £25,000 award

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Knight Foundation awards $2.5m in grants to realise 43 Miami art projects

Funding will help bring the Creative Time Summit to South Florida, back a show on the Cuban artist José Antonio Aponte, and finance a “wine club for art” subscription collecting service

Photographer and activist Zanele Muholi wins France’s top cultural award

South African LGBT champion receives Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

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New prize looks to put art history back on UK’s academic agenda

Judges, including Jeremy Deller, hope that Write on Art will inspire young people to take up the subject

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Berlin Nationalgalerie prize nominees troubled by focus on gender and nationality

Four shortlisted artists issue statement calling for more money, less show

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First Nation artist Ursula Johnson wins Canada’s $50,000 Sobey Award

The prize recognises artists under 40 from each of the country’s five regions

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Dig for victory: artist duo win Prix Marcel Duchamp with urban excavation-themed work

French-Lebanese couple among shortlist of artists who were all born outside France

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Three artists awarded $625,000 MacArthur “genius” grants

Dawoud Bey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Trevor Paglen recognised for “extraordinary originality”

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The four artists shortlisted for the 2017 Nationalgalerie Preis show their work in Berlin

The artists’ proposals range from videos of a talking earth and sun to a functioning hair and nail salon

Freelands Award championing female artists goes to Lis Rhodes at Nottingham Contemporary

Second edition of philanthropist Elisabeth Murdoch's £100,000 prize for regional UK museums will support 2019 exhibition

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Turner Prize show takes on Thatcher, Reagan and racial politics

This year’s “quite radical” exhibition in Hull, featuring Lubaina Himid and Hurvin Anderson, touches on social and political topics

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Marco Miehling wins inaugural ACS Studio Prize

Non-profit Artists’ Collection Society takes on high UK studio rental costs with £6,000 award to London-based artist

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Shortlist for Artes Mundi 8—the largest art prize in the UK—announced

Artists in the running for the £40,000 prize include Trevor Paglen and Otobong Nkanga

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Budi Tek awarded French government’s highest honour

Indonesian-Chinese collector is being commended for developing cultural relations between China and France

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Hepworth Wakefield wins Art Fund UK Museum of the Year prize

Magnum photographer Martin Parr among leading artists whose solo shows help Yorkshire gallery scoop £100,000 award

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Prix Marcel Duchamp, France's leading contemporary art prize, goes abroad

Shows at London's Whitechapel Gallery and in China aim to raise prize's international profile

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Behnam Bakhtiar Award set up to promote Iranian art

Artists of Iranian descent eligible for biennial prize of €10,000 and solo exhibition in Monaco gallery

Turner Prize to take a trip to Margate’s Turner Contemporary in 2019

Gallery has attracted more than 2.3 million visitors since it opened helping to regenerate English seaside town

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Richard Mosse wins Prix Pictet award

Images were created using military-grade thermal camera to depict migrants’ journeys to escape war and persecution