Mimosa Echard has been named the winner of this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, the most prestigious art prize in France. The honor comes with €35,000 ($41,000) and funding to produce an exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which co-organizes the prize. Previous recipients of the award include Kader Attia, Latifa Echakhch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Kapwani Kiwanga. In an effort to increase awareness of contemporary French art abroad, the prize this year also comes with a 2023 residency with the Villa Albertine in a US city of the artist’s choice. Echard, who grew up in
With Georgians wary of Russia and its occupying troops and tens of thousands of disaffected Russians newly arrived since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Shalva Breus's plans for a $26 million art gallery in Tbilisi hinge on a separation of politics and art.