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• Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 Shortlist Announced award

  The shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2026 has just been announced, featuring six titles chosen from a longlist of ten. Each author on the shortlist will receive…

• Haruka Sakaguchi Wins 2026 ICP Infinity Award for Documentary Practice award

  Haruka Sakaguchi has been honored with the 2026 Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Photojournalism by the International Center of Photography (ICP). A freelance…

• Joel Meyerowitz to Receive 2026 ICP Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award award

  The International Center of Photography (ICP) has revealed that Joel Meyerowitz will be honored with the 2026 Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. Born in New York in 1938,…

• Communication Arts Advertising Competition 2026: Final Call for Entries award

  The 2026 Communication Arts Advertising Competition is open for submissions until June 26, 2026, with a late submission option available until July 10, 2026, which incurs a $10…

• Laurie Anderson Wins 2026 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy award

  Laurie Anderson has been awarded the 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Japan's highest private award for global achievement. The prize, accompanied by a $600,000 award,…

• Berlin Music Video Awards 2026 Winners: Provocation and Risk-Taking Reign award

  The 2026 Berlin Music Video Awards took place over three days at Club Gretchen, honoring videos that showcased provocation, discomfort, and dark humor. Notable accolades included…

• Queens Museum Opens 2027–28 Fellowship for Two Emerging NYC Artists award

  The Queens Museum has launched the eighth cycle of its QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship, offering two emerging visual artists a one-year residency culminating in a solo exhibition…

• RIBA Announces 34 Winners of International Awards for Excellence 2026 award

  The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced 34 winners of its International Awards for Excellence 2026. The awards recognize outstanding architectural projects…

• Graham Foundation Awards $506,000 to 54 Architecture Research Projects award

  The Graham Foundation has announced its 2026 Grants to Individuals, distributing a total of $506,000 to 54 recipients. Out of more than 600 submissions from the September 2025…

• Splash 27 Watercolor Competition Announces Top Winners award

  The Splash 27: The Best of Watercolor competition, which has been ongoing for more than 25 years, has revealed its top winners. Chris Krupinski, the awards juror, chose Michelle…

• Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Shortlist Revealed award

  The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist features 18 images across categories including landscape, animal behaviour, macro, monochrome, and…

• Hervé Sabin named Loewe Craft Prize finalist for Sèvi-Tè series award

  Hervé Sabin, a Haitian architect, designer, and finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, crafts furniture and objects using reclaimed wood while working between…

• Roberto Costantini's 'Musagete' Wins Poetry Prize in Turin award

  Roberto Costantini's poetry collection 'Musagete' (Genesi Editrice, 2021) won the first prize in the unpublished poetry section of the 'I Murazzi' award in Turin in 2020. The…

• Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2026 Finalists Announced award

  The 2026 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize finalists have been announced as part of the 10th anniversary of Tasmania's Beaker Street Festival. This contest focuses on…

• Fujifilm Opens 2026 GFX Challenge Grant Applications with $100,000 in Awards award

  Applications for the 2026 GFX Challenge Grant Program by Fujifilm are now open, providing $100,000 in funding, equipment, and mentorship to both photographers and filmmakers.…

• Thomas Docquir becomes first Belgian étoile dancer at Paris Opera Ballet award

  Thomas Docquir, a 28-year-old dancer, was named an étoile (star dancer) at the Paris Opera Ballet on June 21, following a performance of La Bayadère at the Opéra Bastille. He is…

• Granta Ends External Publishing After AI Controversy Over Commonwealth Prize award

  Granta, the prominent literary magazine, will no longer publish winning entries of the Commonwealth short story prize following controversy over alleged AI use in one of this…

• National Gallery launches Art Fund museum of the year quiz with Van Gogh Sunflowers question award

  The National Gallery has kicked off the Art Fund's £120,000 museum of the year prize by contributing a quiz question about Van Gogh's Sunflowers. The quiz, featuring questions…

• Shafiq Alam Wins Red Dot Award for Generative Bengal Music Festival Branding award

  Shafiq Alam's innovative generative design system for the Bengal Classical Music Festival, which received a Red Dot Award in 2017, transforms ragas into fragmented…

• Poland revokes Zelensky's Order of the White Eagle over WWII unit naming award

  Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoked Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest award, escalating a dispute over World War II history. The…

• Nature and Humans Photo Competition Awards 26 Winning Images award

  The third annual Nature and Humans Photo Competition, organized by Fundación DESEA and directed by Spanish nature photographer Arturo de Frías, has announced 26 winning…

• Italy's Culture Ministry launches €1M Olivetti Prize for cultural accessibility award

  The Olivetti Prize for Cultural Accessibility has been introduced by Italy's Ministry of Culture, featuring a €1 million fund aimed at fostering projects that view culture as a…

• Elias Hirschl Wins Düsseldorf Literature Prize 2026 award

  Elias Hirschl has been awarded the Düsseldorf Literature Prize 2026, endowed with €20,000, for his complete literary works. The prize is granted by the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung…

• 2026 Governor General's Medals in Architecture Honor 12 Canadian Projects award

  The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, alongside the Canada Council for the Arts, has revealed the recipients of the 2026 Governor General's Medals in Architecture,…

• St Kilda Pier Wins Victorian Architecture Medal award

  The reimagined St Kilda pier has won the Victorian architecture medal, the top prize at the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects' Victorian awards. The $53 million project,…

• AN’s 2026 Best of Design Awards Now Open for Submissions award

  The 14th edition of The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design Awards is now open for submissions through September 18, 2025. The competition recognizes outstanding projects…

• Jill Soukup Wins Best of Show at Coors Western Art Exhibit with Blue Impulse award

  On January 8, 2026, at The Lodge at Denver's National Western Center, Jill Soukup, a painter from Colorado, received the Best of Show award during the Coors Western Art Exhibit &…

• RAiNA Design Awards 2026: Call for Submissions award

  Submissions for the 2026 RAiNA Design Awards are currently being accepted, celebrating outstanding rainscreen design and construction throughout North America. The awards focus on…

• Art Basel Awards First-Ever Gallery Legacy Award to Paula Cooper Gallery award

  The inaugural Gallery Legacy Award has been granted to Paula Cooper Gallery by Art Basel, honoring the New York gallery's significant impact on contemporary art over nearly sixty…

• MacDowell Opens Studios for Medal Day Honoring Anthony Braxton award

  MacDowell, the oldest multidisciplinary artist residency in the U.S., will open its doors to the public on Sunday, June 28, for Medal Day in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The event…

• Pauline Peyrade's 'Les Habitantes' Wins Prix du Livre Inter 2026 award

  Pauline Peyrade's novel 'Les Habitantes' has won the Prix du Livre Inter 2026. Published by Les Éditions de Minuit, the book tells the story of Émilie, a woman living alone with…

• Seoul Design Award 2026 Final Call: Free Submissions for Sustainable Design award

  The final call for submissions for the Seoul Design Award 2026 has been announced, with entries due by June 30, 2026. This award, organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Government…

• MIT Press, Graham Foundation, Storefront Launch Architecture Publication Award award

  The MIT Press, in collaboration with the Graham Foundation and Storefront for Art and Architecture, has established the Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA).…

• ZEGNA and VISIBLE Award 2026 Fellowship to GOODLand in the Philippines award

  During Art Basel in Basel, ZEGNA and VISIBLE announced GOODLand as the recipient of the 2026 VISIBLE Situated Fellowship. GOODLand is a community-based artistic and environmental…

• Danish Art Critics Awards Honor Gaza Biennale Pavilion and Bloomsbury Exhibition award

  At Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, the Danish Art Critics Association (AICA Danmark) hosted its annual awards ceremony. The prize for exhibition of the year was awarded to…

• Architectural League renames young architects prize after Anne Rieselbach award

  The Architectural League of New York has renamed its Prize for Young Architects + Designers to honor Anne Rieselbach, the former program and membership director who served since…

• Catherine Johnson of Design, Bitches Joins AN's Best of Products Awards Jury award

  Catherine Johnson, cofounder and CEO of Design, Bitches (D,B), has been named a juror for the 12th annual Best of Products Awards by AN Interior. The firm, which has completed…

• Diario vivo wins first Líderes Culturales grant from Fundación Contemporánea and Fundación Banco Sabadell award

  Vanessa Rousselot's live journalism project Diario vivo has been selected as the winner of the first Líderes Culturales call organized by Fundación Contemporánea and Fundación…

• Fumi Nakamura Spotlighted in Booooooom Illustration Awards award

  Fumi Nakamura, an artist and illustrator from Shizuoka, Japan, currently based in New York City, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booooooom Illustration Awards. She studied at San…

• LVMH Innovation Awards 2026: Synthesia and Bluefish AI Win Top Prizes award

  During the Vivatech event in Paris, LVMH revealed the recipients of its 2026 Innovation Awards. The 'Best Business' accolade was awarded to Synthesia, an AI video-generation…