Eight Arts Writers Awarded $50,000 Rabkin Prize
The awardees of the $50,000 Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers have been announced, according to Glasstire.
The eight winners are:
Phong Bui, cofounder and artistic director of The Brooklyn Rail
Charles Desmarais, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Keyes, writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Jason Farago, art critic for the New York Times
Jeff Huebner, arts journalist and freelance writer based in Chicago, Illinois
Carolina Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times
Christina Rees, editor in chief of Glasstire in Dallas, Texas
Chris Vitiello, writer, curator, and organizer based in Durham, North Carolina
The jurors for this year’s prizes were artist and critic Walter Robinson; writer and editor Lisa Gabrielle Mark; and Paul Ha, director of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT.
“Our program will recognize outstanding career contributions by art critics who inform the public through their writing on contemporary art and artists. This program is by nomination and it will involve the input and deliberation of panels of nationally recognized curators, writers, artists and other thoughtful readers of contemporary art criticism,” the Rabkin Foundation said in a statement. The foundation was established by Dorothea and Leo Rabkin in 1999 in honor of Leo, who was an artist and art collector.