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Groundbreaking Achievement: 2025 Turner Prize Goes to Nnena Kalu, First Artist With Learning Disability to Win Prestigious Award
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Groundbreaking Achievement: 2025 Turner Prize Goes to Nnena Kalu, First Artist With Learning Disability to Win Prestigious Award

by Victoria L. Valentine on Dec 11, 2025 • No Comments
Dec. 9, 2025: Nnena Kalu winner of the Turner Prize 2025, pictured in her exhibition at Cartwright Hall in Bradford, UK. | Photo: James Speakman/PA Media Assignments, Courtesy Tate   THE UK’S TOP ARTIST PRIZE has been announced. London-based artist Nnena Kalu (b. 1966) won the Turner Prize 2025. She received the honor at a...
Turner Prize 2025 Shortlist of Four British Artists Includes Nnena Kalu and Rene Matić
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Turner Prize 2025 Shortlist of Four British Artists Includes Nnena Kalu and Rene Matić

by Victoria L. Valentine on Apr 24, 2025 • No Comments
RENE MATIĆ, Installation view of “Untitled (No Place for Violence),” 2024, “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,” CCA Berlin (2024).| Photo: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin   A LARGE-SCALE FLAG by British artist Rene Matić (b. 1997) features the words “No Place” on one side and “For Violence” on the reverse. The flag and its seemingly simplified message...
Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here's What Happened in April 2025
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Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here’s What Happened in April 2025

by Victoria L. Valentine on Apr 11, 2025 • No Comments
  Director of Smithsonian’s African American Museum stepped down, antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson died, Estate of Faith Ringgold and Brazilian artist Dalton Paula join new galleries   **THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH**   AWARDS & HONORS | April 2: Sheela Gowda received the 2025 Sam Gilliam Award. The Dia...

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