HAUNCH OF VENISON TO MOVE INTO ROYAL ACADEMY; CAMERON JAMIE WINS YANGHYUN PRIZE

The Royal Academy of Arts and Haunch of Venison have announced that the gallery will move into the Royal Academy’s building in February. Charles Saumarez Smith, secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts, said: “We are delighted by the decision of Haunch of Venison to move into 6 Burlington Gardens. This arrangement will enable us to further our goals in the redevelopment of the Royal Academy, which will be of immense benefit to the art-going public.” Further details about the move will be announced later this year.

In other news, artist Cameron Jamie has been awarded the first annual Yanghyun Prize in Seoul. Created by the Yanghyun Foundation, the prize, which comes doted with a monetary award of one hundred thousand dollars, is the first international award established in Korea to be given without restrictions on form, genre, or the artist’s nationality. The jury, which rotates every three years, comprises an international group of curators including the Museum Ludwig’s Kasper König and the Museum of Modern Art’s Kathy Halbreich. Jamie had his first US solo museum exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 2006. In selecting Jamie, the jury noted that “he is something of an archaeologist, mining our superheroes and broken histories to locate our human connections.”