Rabkin Basis Names 2024 Winners of Arts Journalism Awards

The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Basis in Portland, Maine, has named the winners of its 2024 grants for visible arts journalists, who embody Artwork in America senior editor Emily Watlington. The grants carry an unrestricted $50,000, and acknowledge the “artistic and mental contributions” of arts writers, per a launch from the inspiration.

The opposite grant winners are Greg Allen, of greg.org; Holland Cotter, chief artwork critic for The New York Instances; Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large for the Washington Publish; Los Angeles–based mostly author and painter Thomas Lawson; Siddhartha Mitter, a contract author and common Instances contributor; Cassie Packard, critiques editor at frieze and creator of 2023’s Artwork Guidelines; and TK Smith, a cultural historian and curator of the humanities of Africa and the African diaspora on the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory College in Atlanta.

The Rabkin Basis launched the annual prize in 2017, and it nonetheless carries one of many largest purses out there to professionals who write for a normal viewers (quite than educational friends). This 12 months, for the primary time, the Rabkin Basis has commissioned portraits of the grant winners of their most well-liked workspace taken by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The venture, known as the Rabkin Interviews, additionally consists of an interview with Mary Louise Schumacher, the inspiration’s government director, to be revealed on Substack within the following weeks.

“I’m grateful … that is going to assist me proceed to do the work for some time frame,” Mitter instructed the Basis, including that his biggest concern as an arts author is “survival” amid the present-day media panorama. “The broader drawback is there’s no present path to sustaining a follow as an arts author.”

Judging the grants this 12 months have been Dennis Lim, inventive director of the New York Movie Competition; rashid shabazz, government director of the grant-making venture Essential Minded; and Alexandra Grant, a Los Angeles– and Berlin-based artist. 

“We needed to humanize the labors of those important writers,” Schumacher, a author herself, mentioned. “We imagine arts writers are within the heart of our most important conversations, assist us suppose collectively in public, create the unique area analysis for artwork historical past, and bear witness to the worth of what artists do.”