Awards
Scotiabank Photography Award to Stan Douglas
Photographer Stan Douglas has been selected for this year’s Scotiabank Photography Award, beating out Angela Grauerholz and Robert Walker. Mr. Douglas will take home a $50,000 prize, have a selection of his work published in a book by Steidl and have a one-person show at Toronto’s 2014 CONTACT Photography Festival. (Pretty nice selection of benefits.) Read More
Mark di Suvero Awarded Gold Medal by American Academy of Arts and Letters
The sculptor Mark di Suvero was awarded a gold medal by the American Academy of Art and Letters at a ceremony at the academy’s headquarters last night. Read More
Artadia NADA Prize to Meg Cranston
Artadia announced today that Meg Cranston will receive the 2013 Artadia NADA New York Award for her presentation at this year’s fair, at the booth of New York’s Fitzroy and Newman Popiashvili galleries. The award comes with a $4,000 unrestricted cash prize that is funded by Artadia and NADA. Read More
Brooklyn Museum to Honor Director Julie Taymor
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s First Awards, held at the Brooklyn Museum in June, will honor director Julie Taymor. Read More
Triple Canopy Announces 2013 Commissions
Triple Canopy has just announced the winners of its fourth annual commissions. Read More
David Rubenstein Will Give Copies of Rare 1823 Declaration of Independence to U.S. Embassies
Tonight at a State Department dinner in Washington, D.C., the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies will present Carlyle Group co-founder and co-CEO David Rubenstein, a formidable collector of documents from American history, with its Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts. But that’s not the only honor changing hands. At the dinner, Mr. Rubenstein will donate reproductions of a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that he owns to every United States embassy in the world. He’ll present the official gift to America’s 68th Secretary of State, John Kerry. Read More
International Center of Photography to Honor Jeff Bridges
New York’s International Center of Photography announced today that it will honor Academy Award–winning actor Jeff Bridges for his work in photography at its annual gala. Though he’s better known for his work in front of the camera, Mr. Bridges has been quietly snapping behind-the-scenes shots of his films for 30 years, and ICP will offer a special presentation of his work at its 29th annual Infinity Awards celebration on May 1. Read More
Jean-François Prat Prize to Matt Saunders
The Berlin and Cambridge, Mass.–based artist Matt Saunders, who is represented in New York by Harris Lieberman, has been awarded the second edition of the Jean-François Prat Prize, which carries a €20,000 ($25,600) purse and includes a two-month show at the law offices of Bredin Prat in Paris. The other artists shortlisted for the prize were Guillaume Bresson amd Mathieu Cherkit, who will each receive €2,000 ($2,600). Read More
The Marina Abramovic Documentary Won a Peabody Award
Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present, a 2012 documentary by Matthew Akers about the artist as she prepared for her very popular exhibition of the same name at MoMA in 2010, is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award, the oldest award in broadcasting. Read More
