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By Zoë Lescaze 6/11 4:54pm

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Abraaj Group Announces Five Art Prize Winners

The Abraaj Group Art Prize, which highlights artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, has announced this year’s five winners. This recipients of the sixth-annual prize include Abbas Akhavan (Iran), Anup Mathew Thomas (India), Bouchra Khalili (Morocco), Kamrooz Aram (Iran) and Basim Magdy (Egypt), who is represented in New York by Newman Popiashvili Gallery in Chelsea. Mr. Magdy’s most recent show there, “A Steady Progress of Nothingness,” closed last month on May 11. The winners, who were chosen on the basis of plans for new artworks, will create the proposed pieces for exhibition in the next edition of Art Dubai in March 2014. The works will be acquired by the Abraaj Group Art Collection.  Read More

By Andrew Russeth 6/07 2:29pm

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'Leaves of Grass,' 2012, at Documenta 13. (Photo by Anders Sune Berg/Casey Kaplan)

Geoffrey Farmer Wins $50,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize

The 2013 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, which is “presented annually to one artist who has made an outstanding contribution to the visual arts in Canada,” has been awarded to Geoffrey Farmer, who was born in British Columbia and now lives and works in Vancouver. Mr. Farmer will receive $50,000 in cash and a one-person exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which administers the prize with the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, in February of next year. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 5/17 12:46pm

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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

By Andrew Russeth 5/11 12:48pm

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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

By Andrew Russeth 4/29 5:01pm

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The original Declaration. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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