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Jeff Wall wins 2008 Audain Prize

Jeff Wall has won the 2008 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement, British Columbia's biggest annual award for the visual arts.

1080 Recipes awarded BEST COOK BOOK DESIGN

1080 Recipes awarded BEST COOK BOOK DESIGN IN THE WORLD at the 2008 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Peter Doig wins 15th Wolfgang Hahn Prize

The Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, has awarded British painter Peter Doig its annual prize for contemporary art

Cildo Meireles wins 2008 Ordway Prize

Cildo Meireles and Hammer Museum curator James Elaine will each receive $100,000, as winners of major US award, the Ordway Prize

Stan Douglas wins Bell Award in Video Art

The Canada Council for the Arts and Bell announced on Tuesday that groundbreaking video artist Stan Douglas is winner of the 2008 prize

Roman Signer shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize

Signer has been shortlisted for the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize, awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art.

Jonathan Torgovnik wins National Portrait Gallery Prize

Jonathan Torgovnik author of Bollywood Dreams has won the fifth annual Photographic Portrait Prize awarded by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Francis Alÿs shortlisted for The Vincent Award 2008

The Belgian artist has been nominated for the prestigious European prize for contemporary art, The Vincent Award 2008.

Thomas Schütte’s sculpture to be installed on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth

The German artist’s work will be unveiled on Wednesday 7 November 2007.