AWARDS
On December 19, Minnesota-based artist Pao Houa Her won the 2023–24 Next Step Award. Her series of works expound on the collective memory of Hmong-American people through photographs of intimate moments, revolving around themes of longing and geography. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded the USD 50,000 Pollock Prize for Creativity to Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander on January 17 for her public art project, “Havah … to breathe, air, life,” which combines sculpture with Snap AR technology and video animation, and challenges the symbols of power and the status of women in contemporary justice systems.
OBITUARIES
Born in 1931, architect, urban planner, and theorist Arata Isozaki died of natural causes at his home in Okinawa on December 29. Dubbed “the emperor of Japanese architecture” with more than 100 completed buildings across the world, the 2019 Pritzker Prize laureate was a key figure in the global history of postwar modernist design. On January 24, Indian architect
