{"id":40723,"date":"2025-08-03T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40723\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:42:08","slug":"famous-faces-australias-martin-kantor-portrait-prize-finalists-in-pictures-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40723\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous faces: Australia\u2019s Martin Kantor portrait prize finalists \u2013 in pictures | Art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists of the 10th and final Martin Kantor prize have been announced. All finalists will be exhibited as part of the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, showcasing their portraits of culturally significant Australians<\/p>\n<p>                                Main image:<br \/>\n                                Khaled Sabsabi Prophesy<br \/>Multi-disciplinary Lebanese-Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi was dropped as Australia\u2019s representative to the 2026 Venice Biennale due to political pressure. After an independent external review and widespread outcry about artistic censorship, Creative Australia reinstated him and his curator Michael Dagostino.<\/p>\n<p>                                Photograph: Bec Lorrimer<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__dateline\">\n<p>            Sat 2 Aug 2025 20.00\u00a0EDT<\/p>\n<p>            Last modified on Sun 3 Aug 2025 07.10\u00a0EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finalists of the 10th and final Martin Kantor prize have been announced. All finalists will be exhibited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[35906,449,458,459,64,63,14303,2331,460,134,4695,8212],"class_list":["post-40723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-news","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-festivals","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}