| Jon Henry was awarded the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. | Hyperallergic Artist Ralph Lemon, playwright Larissa FastHorse, and poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten are among the newly announced class of 2020 MacArthur fellows. | Hyperallergic Transitions Andrea Barnwell Brownlee was appointed director and CEO of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida. Heidi Holder was appointed the Chair of Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. | CultureType Allison Katz is now represented by Luhring Augustine gallery.The Ellsworth Kelly Award this year was awarded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to fund a collaboration between dana washington-queen and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Yinka Shonibare CBE was awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2020.ObituariesJim Dwyer (1957–2020), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | Washington Post James Helferich (1944–2020), butter and ice sculptor | New York Times Thomas Jefferson Byrd (1950–2020), actor known for his roles in Spike Lee films and Tony nominee | CNN Derek Mahon (1941–2020), poet | Guardian Quino (1932–2020), cartoonist who created the character “Mafalda” | NPR Maynard Solomon (1930–2020), musicologist and biographer | New York Times Kenzo Takada (1939–2020), fashion designer | New York Times Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), singer and lead guitarist of rock band Van Halen | Rolling Stone |
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