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The Khaled al-Asaad Prize for the most

important archaeological discovery of the

year has been awarded to the tomb of a

Celtic prince dating to the ifth century BC,

found at Lavau in the Champagne region of

France. The prize is given in honour of the

former director of the archaeological site of

Palmyra, who was murdered by Isil in 2015.

Shortlists

The six shortlisted inalists for the third edi-

tion of the Syngenta Photography Award

are Lucas Foglia, Claudia Jaguaribe and

Yan Wang Preston in the professional

commission category and Robin Friend,

Matt Hamon and Kenneth O’Halloran in

the open competition category. The irst

prize-winner in the professional category

will receive a $15,000 cash prize and up to

$25,000 to fulil their submitted proposal.

Six artists have been shortlisted for the

2016 Griin Art Prize: Pallas Citroen,

Cynthia Cruz, Olivia Kemp, Uesung Lee,

Ana Milenkovic and Emma Papworth.

The shortlisted artists will take part in

the prize exhibition (24 November-

December) at Griin Gallery in London.

The winner, who will be announced on 23

November, will win a three-month studio

residency at the gallery.

Aimee Dawson

Winners

The architecture practice Caruso St John

has won the Royal Institute of British

Architects’ Stirling Prize for its work on

Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery.

The 2017 Nasher Prize for sculpture has

been awarded to Pierre Huyghe. The

French artist will receive $100,000 in

prize money.

Elizabeth LeCompte, a founding member

and director of the experimental theatre

company the Wooster Group, has been

named the winner of this year’s $300,

Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

The British artist Roger Hiorns has been

awarded the 2016 Faena Prize for the

Arts. Hiorns will receive $75,000 towards

the production of a new work.

The Archives of American Art at the

Smithsonian Institution in Washington,

DC, have been awarded the $200,

Don Tyson Prize for outstanding

achievement in American art.

ArtPrize has awarded one $200,

grand prize to James Mellick and another

to Stacey Kirby. Eight other artists

received $12,500 each in the prize’s

category awards.

Kader Attia has won France’s Marcel

Duchamp Prize, which is awarded to

artists who raise the international proile

of challenging French art. Attia will receive

prize money of €35,000 and will exhibit

at the Centre Pompidou along with the

other three inalists: Yto Barrada, Ulla von

Brandenburg and Barthélémy Toguo.

The Bangladeshi-British artist Rana

Begum has won the ninth Abraaj Group

Art Prize. Begum will receive $100,000 to

create a new project that will be unveiled

at Art Dubai next year (15-18 March 2017).

THE GLITTERING PRIZES

Abraaj prize-winner Rana Begum

Eduardo Paolozzi takes centre stage

Eduardo Paolozzi, the late UK artist known for his decorative

mosaics at Tottenham Court Road underground station, will be

honoured next year with a major retrospective at the Whitechapel

Gallery in London. Paolozzi’s stock is rising: Jonathan Clark Fine

Art gallery in London recently staged a show of works by the

Scottish-born sculptor, including a series of fractured portrait

heads depicting Isaac Newton and Alan Turing. The subjects relect

Paolozzi’s “taste for European intellectualism, which is an ocean

away from the celebrity sitters chosen by Andy Warhol”, says a

spokesman for the gallery.

Back in fashion: the artist’s Group of Bronze Heads (1993-95)

Kehinde Wiley dazzles in Paris

The US artist Kehinde Wiley has brought his trademark

exuberant style to Paris, with a series of ten dazzling stained-

glass windows inspired by Old Masters that are now on show

at the Petit Palais (until 15 January 2017). Wiley refers to

Christ and the Virgin Mary in his colourful creations, but the

subjects are young black and mixed-race people whom he

met during ad-hoc street castings, the organisers say. “The

result is a collision where art history and popular culture

come face to face,” they add.

Life’s a beach for Charles March

The artistic career of Charles March, A.K.A. the Earl of March and Kinrara,

continues apace, with a show of the British aristocrat’s works at the

Venus Over Los Angeles gallery this month (8 November-3 December).

“All the photographs were taken over four years, on one small stretch

of beach in the Bahamas, overlooking the Atlantic from the island of

Eleuthera. I took literally tens of thousands of pictures. I move the cam-

era a lot during the exposure, which gives it a very particular look and

feel,” says Lord March, whose Goodwood estate welcomes around 1.

million people each year to its sporting events. Fascinating fact: in 1974,

he worked with Stanley Kubrick as a pre-production stills photographer

on the ilm Barry Lyndon.

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