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Italy Bars Loans to Minneapolis Museum, Elusive Star Trek Prop Resurfaces, Yoko Ono Wins Award for Lifetime ...  ARTnews Source link

Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano, Arvie Smith ...  Culture Type Source link

Ibrahim Mahama Wins Dia’s Inaugural Sam Gilliam Award  ARTnews Source link

Back to schoolLacroix was only missing one thing: a degree in the field. When she attended college the first time around, she chose a seemingly more practical major — nutritional sciences. But, at 50, she decided it was time to get the degree she’d always wanted.Lacroix is an assistant program director at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine's Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education ...

Awarded this year on the occasion of the quinquennial exhibition Documenta, this year’s Arnold Bode Prize 2022 has gone to the Nairobi-based Wajukuu Art Project. The prize, which comes with €10,000 and is awarded by the City of Kassel, where the exhibition takes place. Founded in 2004 in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, the Wajukuu Art Project was established by a group of artists as “a ...

A Dundee graduate’s art inspired by women’s experience of sexism, harassment and gender-based violence has won an international award.Dana Leslie set up a website asking women to record locations where they had experienced assault or discrimination on an interactive map.Anonymous or otherwise, between 130 and 150 volunteers helped the graduate map out incidents in locations spread across eight countries.“I wanted to do something to ...

Ralph Lemon, an influential choreographer and conceptual artist, won the Whitney Museum’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every time the show is held. Lemon is best known for his highly abstract—and often intensely memorable—dances, which have earned him the respect of many artists and a MacArthur “genius” award. But at the Whitney Biennial, which this year was ...

Independent Curators International, the New York–based nonprofit that looks to support the work of curators around the world, will give its 2022 Leo Award to Candice Hopkins, one of today’s most closely watched and influential curators. Hopkins will share the award with the nonprofit . Hopkins, a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation, is the inaugural director and chief curator of Forge Project, “a Native-led ...

Mercury Prize: Music award ceremony postponed after the Queen's death  BBC Source link

Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara—whose imprisonment by the Cuban government drew international condemnation from human rights groups—is one of six artists to receive the inaugural Prince Claus Impact award. Each recipient will receive €50,000 (roughly the same amount in U.S. dollars). The biannual award, established in 2021, are presented to artists and cultural leaders “in recognition of both the excellent quality of ...