Prizes
'India is an example of fascism unchecked': Jameel Prize-nominated activist Sofia Karim on her samosa packets of solidarity
The London-based artist's Turbine Bagh project shines light on human rights abuses across South Asia
James Turrell and Sebastião Salgado among international recipients of £400,000 Japanese art prize
Japan Art Association drew up the all-male winners list for award dubbed ‘Nobel Prize for the Arts’
Sculptor Nairy Baghramian awarded 2022 Nasher Prize
The $100,000 award for sculpture recognises the Berlin-based artist's evocative explorations of the body through sculpture
Sung Tieu's film on sonic warfare, nausea and the legacy of the Cold War wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award
The Berlin-based artist will have a solo booth with Emalin at the London fair
Winner of 25th Deutsche Börse prize announced
Chinese artist Cao Fei's Serpentine exhibition Blueprints recognised as prophesying the effects of the pandemic
Winners of the Russian Art Focus Prize announced at Viennacontemporary
The British journalist Theo Merz won “best publication” and writing collective Agitatsia won “best research paper”
From village life to vaccine centre: Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Firstsite, Thackray Museum of Medicine and Timespan chosen as five finalists for Art Fund's coveted £100,000 prize
Sarah Hardie's symphonic video essay on motherhood, opera and gardens wins Soho House's inaugural art prize
The work was chosen by a panel including Tate director Maria Balshaw and curator and presenter Kate Bryan
What's the point of art prizes?
The trend for awards to be shared among all the shortlisted artists reflects the current political climate, but it might be time to do away with them all together
Everyone’s a winner: Artes Mundi 9 prize awarded to all six nominees
Firelei Báez, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Meiro Koizumi, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Prabhakar Pachpute and Carrie Mae Weems each win £10,000 in latest example of award-sharing
New grant programme to benefit Black designers
The initiative includes three $10,000 awards for emerging designers and one $100,000 grant for a Black-owned design business
Queen’s birthday honours: sculptor Phyllida Barlow is made a Dame with awards also for gallerist Sadie Coles and artist Veronica Ryan
Other art world figures recognised include Edmund de Waal and Martin Parr
Shortlist announced for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest art prize
Although nominations were open to artists of all ages for the first time, the finalists are all around the same generation
Chicago’s Joyce Foundation awards $75,000 each to four artists’ projects
Sydney Chatman, Daniel Minter, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Santiago X will create new works in Great Lakes cities that “honour individual and collective resiliency”
Black Obsidian Sound System: 'Thanks for the Turner Prize nomination, here are our terms'
Group shortlisted by Tate for the prestigious contemporary art prize is calling out the institution’s hypocrisy and demanding working conditions that are “nurturing and supportive”
For first time Turner Prize 2021 shortlist is made up entirely of artist collectives
From a Welsh community group to a neurodiverse arts hub in Hastings, the collectives' works will go on show in Coventry in September
Yinka Shonibare, an art icon with a sardonic twist
The artist is a shining example of philanthropy, funding creative residency projects in London and Lagos
Curator Meg Onli wins inaugural prize aimed at advancing racial equity in the arts
The $75,000 Figure Skating Prize will be awarded annually to a Black artist, curator or scholar
Winner: The Art Newspaper's podcast The Week in Art is named Best Special Interest Podcast
Judges of the Publisher Podcast Awards described the category as "one of the most competitive"
Pérez Art Museum Miami awards María Magdalena Campos-Pons its annual prize
The artist was a pioneer of the New Cuban Art Movement in the late 1980s
Portrait of veiled mother of nine fishing in Yemen wins World Press Photo award
Pablo Tosco’s image from amidst world’s worst humanitarian crisis tops awards, with 45 photographers garlanded from 28 countries
Looking for free artist studio space in central London? A new scheme could help out
New award backed by Spanish fashion brand Loewe will fund workspaces for seven artists at Studio Voltaire
Donald R. Sobey, one of Canada’s greatest cultural philanthropists, has died, aged 86
The son of the Sobey’s grocery chain founder was a huge supporter of artists, and helped establish the country’s main art prize
A year after Covid-19 is confirmed as a pandemic, World Press Photo prize reminds us of photography's vital role in playing witness to history
Highest prize for photojournalism includes images from 28 countries that capture a year when the coronavirus intertwined with global issues of social injustice and territorial conflicts
First art prize dedicated to female African artists launches today
Accra-based Gallery 1957 organises prize to celebrate its fifth birthday, with all-star jury set to announce cash prizes for three winners
Knight Foundation’s $50,000 fellowship goes to five artists who find ‘creative or poetic’ ways to work with technology
Sondra Perry, Rashaad Newsome and Black Quantum Futurism are among the inaugural recipients of the annual
Sobey Art Awards open to Canadian artists of all ages for the first time
The country’s biggest art prize gets bigger, expanding its pool of candidates and increasing its total cash offerings
A derelict James Bond island and creative uses for scrapped airplanes: winners of the 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize announced
The 165 submissions to Sir John Soane’s Museum show that drawing is far from dead
Tanoa Sasraku wins Futures Award for 'haunting' minstrel videos and defiant Ghanaian flags
The 25-year-old Black British artist was awarded first prize worth £10,000
Singer RM from Korean boyband BTS named 'art sponsor of the year'
The Bangtan Boys musician was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September