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• Art Basel Launches Gallery Legacy Award, De Bellis Cites Market Optimism award

  Art Basel has announced the winner of its inaugural Gallery Legacy Award, a new initiative aimed at recognizing long-standing contributions to the art world. Vincenzo De Bellis,…

• Selene Frosini Wins 11th Volker Walter Feierabend Prize in Kiel award

  The Stadtgalerie in Kiel, Germany, celebrated the 11th Premio Fondazione Volker Walter Feierabend on June 12, recognizing Selene Frosini as the First Prize winner. Alice Faloretti…

• Trellis Art Fund Awards $1.2M in Unrestricted Grants to 12 Artists award

  The Trellis Art Fund has granted $1.2 million in unrestricted funding to twelve artists, with each receiving $100,000 over two years. This initiative, known as the 2026 Milestone…

• Jarman Award 2026 Shortlist Announced with Four Artist Filmmakers award

  The Film London Jarman Award has announced its 2026 shortlist, streamlined to four artists: Sadia Pineda Hameed, Ilona Sagar, Rhea Storr, and Alia Syed. The £10,000 prize…

• Aziza Kadyri Wins Art Basel Emerging Artist Award 2026 award

  Aziza Kadyri, a London-based artist born in Moscow in 1994, will receive one of the recently introduced Emerging Artist awards at Art Basel 2026. Her work combines Uzbek textile…

• Elena Churilova Wins 2026 Percival Portrait Painting Prize award

  Elena Churilova, an artist from Brisbane, has been awarded the $40,000 acquisitive 2026 The Percival Portrait Painting Prize, a competition held every two years. Her artwork,…

• Jo Scicluna wins 2026 Omnia Art Prize Major Prize award

  Jo Scicluna, an artist from Melbourne, has received the $15,000 Major Prize at the 2026 Omnia Art Prize & Exhibition for her creation, Where the Land Remembers You #2 (2025). This…

• King Charles III's 2026 Birthday Honours: Ron Arad, Alison Brooks, Max Lamb, Faye Toogood among recognized award

  Ron Arad received a CBE, the highest honor among those listed, for pioneering collectible design with pieces like the Rover Chair. Peter Rowland Tudor St John of Caruso St John…

• Yagwang Wins 2026 Frieze Seoul Artist Award award

  The 2026 Frieze Seoul Artist Award has been awarded to the artist collective Yagwang, marking a historic first for a group to achieve this recognition. Sponsored by Bvlgari for…

• Basil Sellers Art Prize Redesigns Around Artist-First Ethos award

  The Basil Sellers Art Prize, founded in 2004 by philanthropist Basil Sellers AO, has been significantly restructured with a focus on prioritizing artists. Following the 2022…

• UniSQ Biennial Art Award: $24,000 Prize Pool and Acquisitive Awards award

  The Biennial Art Award has been introduced by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), featuring a total prize pool of $24,000. Launched in 2024, the inaugural event…

• Baloise Prize for Emerging Artists at Art Basel Quietly Cancelled award

  The Baloise Art Prize, which has been recognizing two emerging artists with SFr30,000 ($37,000) since 1999, has been discontinued, with dealers receiving notice just days ahead of…

• Nature's 2026 Scientist At Work Photo Competition Winners Announced award

  Nature has revealed the victors of its 2026 Scientist At Work photography contest, showcasing five striking images of scientists in various settings. The top honor went to student…

• Rising Talent Awards 2026 Honors South African Design award

  The Rising Talent Awards 2026, organized by Maison&Objet, celebrate South African design by selecting seven designers from Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. The winners include…

• AN Announces 2026 Best of Practice Awards Winners Across North America award

  The Architect's Newspaper has announced the winners of its 6th annual Best of Practice Awards, celebrating architecture firms across North America. A jury evaluated submissions…

• Koyo Kouoh Fellowship Launched by Art Basel to Honor Late Curator award

  Art Basel has launched the Koyo Kouoh Fellowship, a three-year program designed to support up-and-coming curators, writers, and cultural professionals in attending the Basel fair.…

• Grammy Awards Add Asian Pop and Latin Song Categories award

  The Grammy Awards will introduce five additional categories in 2024, enhancing recognition for diverse musical genres. New categories will include Best Asian Pop Music Performance…

• Premi Miquel Casablancas 2026 Awards Announced at La Fabra in Barcelona award

  La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani in Barcelona hosts 'Encarnarse en la demora', the exhibition of finalists for the Convocatòria d’Arts Visuals Miquel Casablancas 2026, organized…

• Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum Wins Leica Scholarship at ICP award

  Leica Camera and the International Center of Photography (ICP) have awarded the Leica Scholarship at ICP to Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum. The scholarship supports emerging…

• 2026 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition Winners Announced award

  On June 8, 2026, winners of the 13th annual UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition were revealed at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Organized by DivePhotoGuide in…

• Frankenthaler Foundation awards $4.5m to 83 institutions for climate projects award

  On June 16, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation revealed its 2026 cohort of grantees for the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), distributing $4.5 million to 83 visual arts…

• Omolola Coker wins inaugural Myma Art Prize award

  Omolola Coker, an artist from Nigeria, has just received the first-ever Myma Art Prize, which comes with a $5,000 cash prize and a three-month residency at Nosona Studios in Benin…

• 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards Winners Announced award

  The 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards have revealed five winners across Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation, Student, and Future Format categories. Over 8,400 filmmakers from 162…

• Ibrahim Mahama Wins Art Basel Gold Award, Unveils Münsterplatz Commission award

  Ibrahim Mahama, winner of the inaugural Art Basel Gold Award in the established artists category, has unveiled a new public commission on Basel's Münsterplatz. Titled The God of…

• Kate Middleton Wears Patrick McDowell for 2026 Order of the Garter award

  At the 2026 Order of the Garter ceremony at Windsor Castle, Catherine, Princess of Wales, wore a custom honey-colored coat-dress by Patrick McDowell. This stylish piece features a…

• Montauk Sofa Hosts AZ Awards 2026 Gala in Toronto award

  Montauk Sofa served as the presenting partner for the AZ Awards 2026 gala, held at St. Lawrence Market North in Toronto. The evening began at Montauk's new downtown Toronto…

• Carlos del Amor Wins Spain's National Prize for Cultural Journalism 2026 award

  In Spain, journalist Carlos del Amor has received the 2026 Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural. The jury commended his dedication to the arts, his knack for accessible…

• CULTURED Announces Inaugural Young Writers List for 2026 award

  CULTURED magazine has launched its first-ever Young Writers list, spotlighting ten authors aged 30 and under who are releasing new books in the coming year. Developed with…

• Michael Waters Wins Lambda Literary Award, Preps Book on Credit award

  Michael Waters, 28, won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction for his debut The Other Olympians, which traces the history of pioneering trans and intersex athletes.…

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul Receives France's Legion of Honor award

  On June 10, the French Embassy in Bangkok honored Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul with the prestigious Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. French…

• George Gittoes donates 'Angel of Peace' to Sydney Peace Foundation award

  George Gittoes, an artist and filmmaker, has contributed his latest artwork titled 'Angel of Peace' to the Sydney Peace Foundation. This donation aligns with the recent…

• 2026 Hornsby Art Prize Opens with $23,000 Prize Pool award

  Hey, guess what? The Hornsby Art Prize for 2026 is now accepting submissions! This event, which the Hornsby Shire Council and the Hornsby Art Society put together, has been around…

• Canadian Screen Awards Celebrate National Storytelling award

  At the Canadian Screen Awards, a presenter declared that a country failing to tell its own stories is merely a market for others. The event, covered by The New York Times on June…

• Carola Helwing's 'Ballerina Gold' Wins International Art Prize, Debuts at Art Expo New York award

  Frankfurt-based artist Carola Helwing, whose practice merges dance and painting, achieved international recognition in 2024 with her work 'Ballerina Gold.' The acrylic and pastel…

• Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet Win 2026 Women's Prize award

  The 2026 Women's Prize winners are Virginia Evans (fiction) and Lyse Doucet (non-fiction), both debut authors. Evans won for her epistolary novel 'The Correspondent,' told through…

• Fabio Massimo Capogrosso Wins David di Donatello 2026 for Best Composer award

  Fabio Massimo Capogrosso (Perugia, 1984) won the David di Donatello 2026 for Best Composer for his score to "Primavera," the directorial debut of Damiano Michieletto, loosely…

• State Library of South Australia Launches $15,000 Creative Fellowship award

  The State Library of South Australia has introduced a new $15,000 fellowship open to writers, artists, musicians, performers, and creatives of any discipline. The fellowship…

• Numero Cromatico Wins Visions Prize 2026 with Art-Neuroscience Project award

  The Roman collective Numero Cromatico has won the second edition of the Visions Prize, an award for artists under 40 promoted by Visions. The prize was announced on June 13, 2026,…

• Authors Blackman and Donaldson made dames in UK honours list award

  Children's authors Malorie Blackman and Julia Donaldson have been made dames in the King's Birthday Honours, recognized for services to literature. Donaldson is best known for…

• ATELIER ARS Wins Brick Award 26 for Clase Azul Hacienda Jalisco Warehouse award

  Mexican architecture firm ATELIER ARS has won the Working Together category at the Brick Award 26 for their project Warehouse and Offices for Clase Azul La Hacienda Jalisco,…