Tag: Awards
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2025 Photo Awards Winner: Chanyoung Chung
Can you describe three life moments that made you who you are today? My first moment was in 2009, when a thief broke into my place, and took away everything I had built over ten years in a single day. Every film negative I had shot since high school, my cameras, hard drives, and even read more
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2025 Photo Awards Winner: Jonah Reenders
Can you describe three life moments that made you who you are today? I grew up on a blueberry farm, and it had a profound effect on who I am today. It created a deep connection with the earth and its seasons, and how to care for the land. My entire childhood revolved around being read more
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The Problem With Art Awards
Daily Newsletter Lucian Freud’s paintings of “lostness,” the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it’s the latter in read more
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Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
Award season now arrives less as a sequence of events than as a continuous atmosphere. Announcements blur into ceremonies, ceremonies into press cycles, press cycles into speculation about the next stage. The art world has begun to mirror this rhythm, producing its own awards, its own stages, its own moments of recognition that appear to read more
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Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are seen in neighborhoods as often as in the wild? For this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), photographers from around Great read more
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A Rare White Whale Sighting Tops the 2026 World Nature Photography Awards
Among humpback whales, which can grow upwards of 60 feet long and weigh up to 40 tons, instances of albinism are exceedingly rare. But when these otherworldly all-white mammals appear—such as the beloved Migaloo that was first spotted in 1991 off Australia’s east coast—they inspire wonder. Marine photographer Jono Allen captured a unique shot of read more
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See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards
For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. The contest has announced read more
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Vilcek Foundation Awards Five Immigrants $250,000 for Fashion Documentation
Announcement Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, Diego Bendezu, Jalan and Jibril Durimel, and Natalie Nudell received the 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & Culture for their contributions to fashion representation. Natalie Nudell, Jibril Durimel, Tanya Meléndez-Escalante,Jalan Durimel, and Diego Bendezu (all images courtesy the Vilcek Foundation) Fashion is more than clothing. The 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & read more
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NEH Awards $75.1 M. In Grants to Projects Promoting Classical Arts, Conservative Values
The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $75.1 million to 84 projects, marking its first round of grants since President Donald Trump dismissed nearly all members of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory body that helps set NEH funding priorities, last fall. The funded projects span a wide range of subject read more
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2025 Booooooom Photo Awards Judges: Introducing Jessie Wender
Can you share three life moments that shaped who you are today? 1. Having my son two and a half years ago has changed me in so many ways. Watching him grow and learn all these new things is so amazing. And his enthusiasm for life is genuinely inspiring. It has changed my views on read more
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Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards
Community Organizations including United States Artists and Creative Capital announced millions of dollars in grants this week. Plus: a baby rave! Matthieu Laurette applies banana puree while reading excerpts from the French Constitution, per instructions from artist Karlo Ibarra, as part of his performance “TROPICALIZE ME!” at the 3rd Gran Bienal Tropical. (photo by Raquel read more
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