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Several stories tackling race, slavery and the US Civil War, both real and invented, were among the winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes, the US-based awards that honour the best in journalism and the arts. Here is a breakdown of the laureates, in eight categories covering the arts – which focus on books, theatre and music. Fiction - “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne PhillipsSet in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War, the author’s third instalment in a trilogy about different wars, follows a 12-year-old girl and her mother, who was abused by a Confed...
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Museums in Skipton, Dundee, Manchester join two London galleries in the running for the much-coveted Museum of the Year prize. Awarded by Art Fund, the winning museum will take away £120,000 (€140,000) with the other nominees getting £15,000 (€17,500). Run since 2008 – as the Art Fund Prize until 2012 – winners have ranged from huge international institutions like the British Museum to smaller more regional galleries like the ever-impressive Hepworth in Wakefield. These are the 12 must-see European art exhibitions to check out this spring Here is the UK's museum of the year and the top museums...
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The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, designed by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been crowned the winner of this year's EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Revealed by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission, the German project is being rewarded for its innovative approach to sustainability and for creating a welcoming and interactive space for study, collaboration, and community gatherings. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition for the study centre in 2015, are the youn...
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Aya Nakamura retained her crown as the queen of French music last night by securing three major awards at the Les Flammes ceremony. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter, who is currently the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world, took home the awards for Female Artist of the Year (now for the second year in a row), New Pop Album, and International Breakthrough. In parallel, rapper Gazo repeated his success from 2023 by winning Male Artist of the Year, a title he also secured at the Les Victoires de la musique awards earlier this year. The award for Best Concert went to rapper SCH f...
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Dubbed the ‘Brit Awards of the North’, the Northern Music Awards (NMAs) were organised by the music therapy charity Nordoff & Robbins and held in Manchester’s Albert Hall. It’s intended to become an annual event and represents a concerted effort to direct interest away from the wealthier areas of the UK, where arts funding is in greater supply, and shine a light on northern talent, as well as fundraise for the charity’s music therapy initiatives. Nordoff & Robbins have also held the Silver Clef Award since 1976 in London, also as a fundraising initiative with grime artist Stormzy as the most r...
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The nominees have been revealed for the 2024 edition of the Heavy Music Awards. This marks the eighth year of the ceremony, held annually in the U.K. in support of heavy music. The nominees were compiled by the HMA industry panel consisting of nearly 1,000 people, who chose their favorites in music released between Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2023. Fans will have 10 categories to vote upon, divvied up between the best in U.K. music as well as international honors. Sleep Token lead all the nominees this year with four nominations, including the Heavy Music Awards top category of Best Album. Enter Shikari a...
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Yussef Dayes and Sampha both lead the nominations for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards after they have both been nominated individually for their most recent albums, as well as together for co-writing the Sampha song ‘Spirit 2.0’. Also with two nominations, Daniel Pemberton has been recognised for his scoring work in the film Spider-Man's Across the Spider-Verse and the third season of TV series 'Slow Horses' which he composed with Toydrum. Britain's diverse cultural heritage at forefront of 2024 Turner Prize nomineesUK government rejects findings of Misogyny In Music report Unlike other music ...
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Since its inception in 1988, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, also known as the Mies van der Rohe Award, has celebrated excellence in architectural works built across Europe. Co-organised by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the prize is set to announce its winner for its 2024 edition on 14 May at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. A jury have whittled down 362 nominees to a shortlist of 40, competing for the main €60,000 prize. The award also includes the Emerging Architect Prize (€30 000). The awarded projects are not only judged on their aesthe...
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The World Photography Organisation has announced the overall winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024. French photographer Juliette Pavy claimed the coveted award for Photographer of the Year for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women. The project explores a dark chapter in Greenlandic history where Inuit women were subjected to an involuntary birth control program. Pavy was selected from the 10 winners in the professional category; she receives a $25,000 prize, Sony equipment, and the opportunity to present a new body of wor...
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Writers group PEN America announced it’s cancelling its annual awards ceremony – just a week before it was set to take place in New York City – after dozens of authors dropped out over the literary organisation’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza. Sixty-one authors and translators were nominated for awards, with 28 of them withdrawing their books from consideration, according to a statement released on Monday. PEN, a literary and free expression organisation, hands out hundreds of thousands of US dollars in prizes each year, including $75,000 (€70,000) for the PEN/Jean Stein Award for best book...
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