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• Graham Foundation Awards $560,000 to Young Architects and Designers award

  The Graham Foundation has announced a new award, the Graham Foundation Awards, providing $560,000 in grants to support innovative architectural and design projects. Ninety-nine…

• The Square Wins Palme d'Or at 70th Cannes Film Festival award

  The 70th Cannes Film Festival concluded with Ruben Östlund's 'The Square' winning the Palme d'Or. The festival featured strong Italian cinema presence, including 'A Ciambra' by…

• OmA launches fourth edition of Venti>Quaranta contest for young artisans award

  The fourth edition of Venti>Quaranta, a contest for artisans aged 20-40, will be presented on May 27, 2017, during Preziosa 2017 Florence Jewellery Week in Florence, Italy.…

• Roy Lichtenstein Award Launched by FCA to Support Emerging Artists award

  The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) in New York has announced the creation of the Roy Lichtenstein Award, a new grant for artists funded by a $1 million donation from the…

• 2017 Prix Ars Electronica Winners Announced award

  During the festival in Linz, Austria, held from September 7 to 11, the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2017 were revealed. Maja Smrekar received the Golden Nica in Hybrid Art…

• Premio Cultura + Impresa 2017 Winners Announced award

  On May 24, 2017, the Premio Cultura + Impresa, created in 2013 by Federculture and The Round Table, recognized four projects at the Fondazione Feltrinelli in Milan. The recipients…

• Shanghai Prize Returns for Young Italian and Chinese Artists award

  After a three-year hiatus, the Shanghai Prize resumes, offering three young Italian and three young Chinese artists residencies in China and Italy to foster cultural exchange and…

• NL Architects Wins EU Mies van der Rohe Prize for DeFlat Kleiburg Renovation award

  For the first time, the EU Mies van der Rohe Prize has been awarded to the renovation of an existing building. The 2017 prize went to DeFlat Kleiburg, a project in Amsterdam by NL…

• Franz Erhard Walther Wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale award

  Franz Erhard Walther, born in 1939 in Fulda, Germany, has been awarded the Golden Lion for best artist at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The jury praised his work for combining forms,…

• Ettore Spalletti Receives Honorary Degree in Architecture from University of Pescara award

  Ettore Spalletti was awarded an Honorary Degree in Architecture by the University of Pescara during a ceremony at the Aula Magna of the Polo Pindaro. The event included a…

• BNL and Artribune announce winners of 'Architetture Verso il Cielo' photo contest award

  The photography contest 'Architetture Verso il Cielo,' launched by BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas in collaboration with Artribune, concluded on April 5, 2017, with over 3,700 images…

• Moroso Concept 2017 Winners Announced at Friuli Ethnographic Museum award

  Francesco Fonassi, Margherita Moscardini, and Driant Zeneli were honored with the Moroso Concept 2017 award at the Museo Etnografico del Friuli in Udine. The competition showcased…

• Thomas Berra and Corinna Gosmaro Win 6ARTISTA Prize award

  In the fifth edition of 6ARTISTA, Thomas Berra and Corinna Gosmaro emerged as winners of the initiative aimed at supporting young artists, organized by Fondazione Pastificio…

• Susan Philipsz Wins Birmingham Big Art Project with £2M Sound Clock award

  Susan Philipsz, the Scottish artist born in 1965, has won the Birmingham Big Art Project, a competition to create a public artwork for Birmingham. The project raised £2 million…

• Carolee Schneemann Wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale award

  The 2017 Venice Biennale awarded its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Carolee Schneemann, a 78-year-old American artist known for performance and video art. The prize will…

• Wellcome Image Awards 2017: Science Meets Art award

  The Wellcome Image Awards is celebrating its 20th year, recognizing exceptional visuals in science and research. In 2017, a panel of medical science and communication experts…

• Eduardo Souto de Moura Receives Piranesi Prix de Rome award

  On March 24, at the Acquario Romano in Rome, the Piranesi Prix de Rome was awarded to Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who won the Pritzker Prize in 2011. This…

• miart 2017 Awards: Duccio Maria Gambi, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Barbara Kasten, and More award

  At miart 2017 in Milan, multiple awards were presented to galleries and artists. Duccio Maria Gambi of Nero Design Gallery (Arezzo) won the Premio CEDIT per OBJECT for his design…

• La pazza gioia wins Best Film at 2017 David di Donatello Awards award

  At the 61st David di Donatello Awards, held at the Quirinale Palace in Rome on March 27, 2017, Paolo Virzì's 'La pazza gioia' won Best Film and Best Director. The ceremony, hosted…

• David di Donatello Awards Spotlight New Italian Cinema award

  The David di Donatello Awards, Italy's most prestigious film honors, have seen a format shift since the last edition, aiming to increase public engagement. The 2017 awards…

• Premio AAA celebra l'architettura alpina con mostra diffusa in 9 città award

  Il Premio AAA – Architetti Arco Alpini, lanciato da un'associazione creata a maggio 2023 con il supporto di 9 Ordini degli Architetti PPC, ha annunciato quattro vincitori scelti…

• MIT Disobedience Award: $250,000 Prize for Civil Disobedience award

  The MIT Media Lab has launched the Disobedience Award, a $250,000 prize to be awarded on July 21, 2017, to an individual or group that has distinguished themselves through an…

• Italy Leads Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Shortlist with 23 Finalists award

  Italy is the most represented country in the shortlist of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017, with 23 Italian photographers among the finalists and 25 receiving special…

• Claudio Gobbi Wins BNL Prize at MIA Photo Fair in Milan award

  Claudio Gobbi, born in Ancona in 1971 and based in Berlin, has won the BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas Prize at MIA Photo Fair in Milan. Presented by We Gallery of Berlin, Gobbi was…

• RCR Arquitectes Wins 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize award

  The 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Rafael Aranda (1961), Carme Pigem (1962), and Ramon Vilalta (1960), the three Spanish architects behind RCR Arquitectes.…

• Moonlight Wins Best Picture at 2017 Oscars After La La Land Error award

  At the 89th Academy Awards on February 26, 2017, Moonlight won Best Picture after a historic envelope mix-up. Presenter Warren Beatty was given the wrong envelope, leading La La…

• Oscar 2017: i candidati al miglior film d'animazione award

  L'articolo analizza la cinquina dei film candidati all'Oscar per il miglior film d'animazione del 2017, in vista della cerimonia del 26 febbraio a Los Angeles. Tra i candidati…

• Oscar 2017: La La Land Leads with 14 Nominations, Controversies and Snubs award

  The 89th Academy Awards nominations were announced on January 24, 2017, in Los Angeles. Damien Chazelle's La La Land leads with 14 nominations, tying the record held by All About…

• 67th Berlinale: Golden Bear goes to Ildikó Enyedi, Milena Canonero receives lifetime award award

  The 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) took place from February 9 to 19, 2017, at the Berlinale Palast. The festival opened with Etienne Comar's 'Django' and…

• EU Mies Award 2017: Five Finalists Announced, OMA's Fondazione Prada Eliminated award

  The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the shortlist for the 2017 EU Mies Award, the European Union's most prestigious architecture prize. Five…

• Milena Canonero Receives Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival award

  Italian costume designer Milena Canonero (Turin, 1946) was awarded the Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival. Canonero, known for her…

• ArtOnTime: New Performance Prize Launches with Crowdfunding and Swiss Watchmaker Support award

  ArtOnTime, a new prize combining exhibition, curatorial project, and crowdfunding, has been launched by Marco Trevisan (Christie's consultant), Verona-based collector Giorgio…

• Burhan Ozbilici wins World Press Photo 2017 for assassination image award

  Turkish photographer Burhan Ozbilici of Associated Press won the World Press Photo of the Year 2017 for his image "An Assassination in Turkey," capturing the moment Mevlüt Mert…

• Collettivo Angelo Mai wins Franco Quadri Ubu Prize 2016 award

  The Collettivo Angelo Mai, a Rome-based independent art collective, has been awarded the prestigious Franco Quadri Special Prize at the 2016 Ubu Awards, Italy's top theater…

• Arte Fiera and SetUp Bologna Award Winners Announced award

  The 2017 editions of Arte Fiera and SetUp in Bologna announced multiple award winners. The Cool Couple won the Premio Gruppo Euromobil under 30 with their photographic diptych…

• Fuocoammare nominated for Oscar, La La Land ties record award

  Gianfranco Rosi's documentary Fuocoammare has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, representing Italy. The film, shot over a year on Lampedusa,…

• La La Land Wins Record 7 Golden Globes award

  Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land won 7 Golden Globes out of 7 nominations, the most in the awards' history, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actor and…

• Five Artists Selected for Florence Courthouse Artworks award

  The winners of a 2015 Florence municipal competition to create artworks for the Palazzo di Giustizia and surrounding Novoli area have been announced. The selected artists are…

• Premio Graziadei 2016: Alessandro Calabrese and The Cool Couple Win Photography Prize award

  The fifth edition of the Premio Graziadei, held within the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, awarded two photography projects at the Macro museum in Rome on December 14,…

• Paola Gribaudo Honored as Accademico d'Onore by Accademia Albertina award

  Paola Gribaudo, a Turin-based publisher renowned for her art books, was awarded the title of Accademico d'Onore by the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin. The ceremony…