{"id":640766,"date":"2026-06-16T00:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:43:15","slug":"the-art-award-honors-the-story-behind-the-artwork-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640766\/","title":{"rendered":"The .ART Award Honors the Story Behind the Artwork \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe question that has always stayed with me is the one the market rarely asks: what happened in the studio before the work arrived? The sketches abandoned, the ideas reconsidered, the moment something became itself?\u201d<\/p>\n

That is Shlomi Rabi, founder of Bridgewell Arts and a former auction-house specialist, describing what he is now looking for in his new role on the jury of the .ART Award<\/a>. The global art prize opened for applications this May to mark the 10th anniversary of the .ART domain.<\/p>\n

The .ART Award\u2019s format follows from his question. Every artist who applies builds a working archive in the process: their bio, their work, the story behind it, gathered in one place on a .ART domain. \u201cWe rarely get to see how an idea becomes a work of art,\u201d says jury member Akanksha Ballaney, Senior Director of Business Development at Artsy and Artnet. \u201cThis award changes that by making the journey as important as the destination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside Rabi and Ballaney, the 10-person international panel includes Pulitzer-winning art critic Jerry Saltz (New York Magazine), poet and digital artist Sasha Stiles (co-founder of theVERSEverse and the artist behind A Living Poem at MoMA), media arts curator Regina Harsanyi (Museum of the Moving Image), Dean Phelus (American Alliance of Museums, Museum\u00a0Magazine), Gijs Stork (Ch\u00e2teau du Fresne), Laurent Mo\u00efsi (Whitewall Magazine), Leo Crane (AIFA Ventures), and Irina Tarsis (Center for Art Law).<\/p>\n

Stiles, whose own practice spans poetry, code, and large language models, frames her interest plainly: \u201cI\u2019m fascinated by the inner workings of the artist\u2019s studio, the layers of inspiration and influence and craft, the process behind an artwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a>A salon at Ch\u00e2teau du Fresne, the .ART Award 2026 residency near Paris, France.<\/p>\n

\"Person<\/a>Artist Claudia Pons Bohman at Anfitrion, the .ART Award 2026 residency in Marbella, Spain.<\/p>\n

The total prize value for the .ART Award exceeds $50,000, including a $15,000 Grand Prize, residencies at Ch\u00e2teau du Fresne<\/a> in France and Anfitrion<\/a> in Spain, an editorial feature in Whitewall Magazine, and a premium .ART domain valued at $10,000.<\/p>\n

Applications\u00a0for the .ART Award close on\u00a0 November 1, 2026, with winners to be announced on December 3 during Art Basel Miami. It is free to enter and open to artists worldwide working in any discipline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apply now at award.art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dark,<\/a>Sasha Stiles, \u201cAre you ready for the future?\u201d (2020). Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a>Sasha Stiles, \u201cA Blank Garden,\u201d presented at NFT Paris in 2025. Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe question that has always stayed with me is the one the market rarely asks: what happened in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,125965,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-sponsor","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}