The Andy Warhol Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2023 Arts Writers Grant, an annual award for authors who write about contemporary art in scholarly articles, books, and short-form stories. The 27 winners announced today, November 30, will receive a total of $935,000 distributed in prizes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 and include three Hyperallergic contributors.
Chelsea Haines, who has penned a number of stories for Hyperallergic ranging from exhibition reviews to artist profiles, received this year’s grant for a forthcoming long-form article titled “Transatlantic Solidarities: Gershon Knispel in Brazil.” Haines’s research will examine the public artworks of German-born Israeli artist Gershon Knispel created in Brazil between 1957 and 1964. The young painter and sculptor centered the experiences of marginalized communities and focused on issues of racial inequality and migration. Haines argues that this body of work provides “a different understanding of global modernism in art, one not governed by national efforts at cultural diplomacy.”
“Gershon Knispel’s work has to date received little attention in Anglophone criticism and scholarship,” Haines told Hyperallergic. “I am grateful to the Arts Writers Grant for giving me the opportunity to think and write about his art today when its legacy feels so urgent.”
Two other Hyperallergic authors earned the Arts Writers Grant for short-form articles. Sahar Khraibani, who has contributed film and photography reviews, will publish a series on the practices of queer contemporary artists living in Arab countries and their diasporas. Silvia Benedetti will explore the creation of textiles in the Venezuelan Andes, tracing the tradition through the centuries and exploring how local craft schools keep the art form alive.
Other selected projects include Uri McMillan’s upcoming book The Seventies in Color, which will delve into Stephen Burrows, Grace Jones, and Antonio Lopez’s artistic practices in 1970s New York City to illuminate how Black and Brown creators contributed to the cultural patchwork of the decade. In her article “Unruly Bodies: Confronting Ableism with Aberrance,” writer Jane Ursula Harris will consider how Jesse Darling, Mae Howard, and Berenice Olmedo incorporate physical markers of disability in their artwork — such as prosthetics and medical waste — to challenge ableist preconceptions about the human body.
Since the first Art Writers Grants were distributed in 2006, the Andy Warhol Foundation has awarded over $11.5 million to more than 380 authors. Writers submit an application, then evaluators and jurors choose the winners in a two-pronged selection process. After earning the award in 2019, Hyperallergic contributor Mimi Wong penned an essay about the grant’s vital importance in sustaining her arts writing practice, discussing how poor pay frequently forces authors who focus on contemporary art to rely on alternate forms of compensation.
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