British Museum Western Range
architecture competition
Image: LGA architectural competition submission. © LGA. Courtesy British Museum.
ARCHITECTURE
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture
Western Range architecture competition
The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture (LG—A) has won the competition to redesign its Western Range galleries. LG—A, led by Lina Ghotmeh, was said to have shown a deep understanding and sensitivity towards the Museum, the complexity of collections' display and artefacts' interactions with diverse visitor groups. Ghotmeh's vision resonated with the panel because of its ‘archaeological’ approach to architectural design. She was said to have likened each new project to an archaeological dig, looking at a building's past to support the reimagination and ‘story’ of its future, with sustainability at its heart and a close observance to the use of natural materials.
About the British Museum Western Range architecture competition
2025 LG Guggenheim Award
Image: Ayoung Kim, still from Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0º Receiver, 2024. © Ayoung Kim, ACMI.
ART
Ayoung Kim
LG Guggenheim Award
The Guggenheim New York and LG announced Seoul-based artist Ayoung Kim as the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award recipient. The jury called the former motion designer a "pioneering, trailblazing artist of her time" for her work combining new technologies with traditional mediums like performance and sculpture. As the third artist to be recognized, Kim's work was applauded for representing a "paradigm shift in how art can engage with emerging technologies" and offering "transformative perspectives on how humanity interacts with and understands these new tools".
Réinventer la photographie
Image: Keiichi Tahara, Appartement avenue Alphand, St Mandé, Fenêtres series, 1973-1982. Centre national des arts plastiques, inv. FNAC 94540. © Keiichi Tahara / Cnap. Crédit photo : Yves Chenot
PHOTOGRAPHY
Réinventer la photographie
Entrusted by the French Ministry of Culture to the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of photography in 2026-2027, a national photographic commission entitled Réinventer la photographie was launched in September 2024. The 15 winners have been announced: Mali Arun, François Bellabas, Lucien Bitaux, Marie Bovo, Anne-Lise Broyer, Gaëlle Choisne, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon, Isabelle Giovacchini, Laurent Lafolie, Laurent Millet, Constance Nouvel, Baptiste Rabichon, Michel Slomka, Stéphanie Solinas and Marie Sommer.
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Bourse de soutien unRepresented
Image: Jordan Beal, Corrosion series, 2024. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth paper from scan of damaged negative. 60 x 48 cm. Ed. 1/3. © Jordan Beal / Courtesy of the artist
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jordan Beal
Bourse de soutien à la création contemporaine
française caribéenne et amazonienne
The unRepresented by a ppr oc he salon, in partnership with La Station Culturelle (Martinique) and Rubis Mécénat, has awarded the first French Caribbean and Amazonian Contemporary Art Support Grant to Jordan Beal, a promising artist from Martinique. Working at the intersection of image, photography and memory, Jordan Beal explores themes of nature, territory and identity through experimental techniques of photographic negative manipulation. His work has already been showcased in several institutions and biennials across the Caribbean.
About the Bourse de soutien unRepresented
Unbuilt Award 2024
Image: Courtesy of Buildner
ARCHITECTURE
Loa's black line
Expo Osaka 2025 - Pavilion Slovenia
Eden 2.0
Unbuilt Award
Buildner has announced the inaugural winners of its Unbuilt Award 2024, celebrating architectural design that has yet to be realized. Divided into three categories based on the scale of the project, Loa's black line, a spatial intervention along the Loa River, Chile's longest, is the Small scale category winner. The Pavilion of Slovenia for the Expo Osaka 2025 is the Medium scale category winner. The project emphasizes sustainability, reflecting the country’s identity and environmental commitment. Eden 2.0, a 3.4-hectare ecological conservatory in Yeoul Park, Dongtan, South Korea is the Large scale category winner. Designed as critical social infrastructure, it preserves ecological diversity while fostering human-nature interaction.
2025 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles
Film Award
Image: Ja’Lisa Arnold, still from Grief Cannot Exist Without Joy, 2025.
ART
Ja’Lisa Arnold
Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award
Responding to this year’s theme of ‘togetherness’, LA filmmaker Ja’Lisa Arnold has won the 2025 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award for her work Grief Cannot Exist Without Joy, the story of a young musician finding a way to peace following his brother’s death. In the separate Audience Award, voted for by the public, Christopher Guerrero won for his film Reprogrammed, a timely tale abiout the place of AI and human emotions in a retro-futurist world.
