Selected works by 58 Israeli artists will be purchased by a $250,000 acquisition fund
Tchelet Ram, True Love Leaves No Traces, 2013. Bed, closet, rope, 195 x 140 x 90 cm. Photo: Ariel Reichman.
TEL AVIV
.-The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Foundation, which has been awarding an annual prize of approximately $120,000 to two artists since 2006, has decided, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, to reconfigure the prize this year as a dedicated $250,000 fund for the purchase of art works.
The art works will be purchased for the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Israeli Art Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which comprises works by Rappaport Award winners over the years, and will be on display at a special exhibition to be opened at the Museum in August 2021.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem Awards 2020 Shpilman Prize for Excellence in Photography
The $40,000 prize celebrates photography as a leading contemporary cultural medium to cultivate original work in the field.by BWW News Desk
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem has awarded Sara Cwynar as winner of the 2020 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. The Canadian artist will receive an award of $40,000 in recognition of her powerful activation of the photographic medium and her original critique of its political histories and to support the research, production, and post-production of a multi-platform video and photography project. Honorable Mentions were also granted to Penelope Umbrico (USA) and Lebohang Kganye (South Africa).