Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist whose haunting, elegiac work bears witness to the history of violence, has been named the inaugural recipient of the $1 million Nomura Art Award, the largest cash ...

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is the winner of the inaugural Numera Art Award, the largest prize in the art world today. The artist will walk home with an astonishing $1 million in cash. The winner ...

Doris Salcedo Wins Big – The Colombian artist is the first-ever recipient of the $1 million Nomura Art Award, the world’s largest cash prize for an artist. Get the Gossip – In this week’s “Wet Paint” ...

Doris Salcedo, “Sumando Ausencias” (2016) at Plaza de Bolivar, Bogotá, Colombia (photo by Andres Gaitan and used with permission) Last week, Salcedo returned to Bolívar Square to unveil a public ...

The relatively recent international success of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, who has been exhibiting since the mid-1980s, seems to have led her in a reflexive direction: Increasingly embraced by ...

“Producing projects capable of honoring the experience of victims of violence requires a large investment in time and organization, sometimes with many collaborators,” Salcedo said in a statement.

Students and local residents flooded into the Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall on Tuesday to learn about the theme of mourning in Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s work. Curator of Modern and ...

TOKYO and HONG KONG, Nov. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At a gala dinner and ceremony held yesterday evening in Shanghai, China, Nomura announced that the winner of the first annual Nomura Art Award is the ...

When Colombian artist Doris Salcedo read Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book “On Revolution,” a passage about “civil war raging all over the earth” jumped out at her. It seemed like a strong assertion, ...

Every week, WGBH Arts Editor Jared Bowen sums up the exhibitions, theater, movies and music you should check out in and around Boston. Lesley University’s Synopsis: “‘Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty’ will ...

CAMBRIDGE — Mourning is so hard. When someone we love dies, wrote the essayist Adam Phillips, “something is communicated to us that we cannot communicate.” Our need to know what that thing is can feel ...

Students and local residents flooded into the Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall on Tuesday to learn about the theme of mourning in Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s work. Curator of Modern and ...