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2 days agoArt SG Attendance Climbs, JD Museum Announced, and more
Art SG attendance rose to 43,000; SAM acquired works; JD.com will build a 108,000-square-foot museum in Shenzhen; Syria and Chanel announced artists and awards.
This year's recipients, who come from ten different countries and a range of disciplines, are Álvaro Urbano, Ambrose Akinmusire, Andrea Peña, Ayoung Kim, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Emeka Ogboh, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Pan Daijing, Payal Kapadia and Pol Taburet. Apart from representing the visual arts, they include a jazz trumpeter (Akinmusire), filmmaker (Kapadia) and a dancer (Da Silva Ferreira, a former elite swimmer who won Portugal's version of the reality television show "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2010 and is now an established choreographer).