The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has announced the eight recipients for the 2026 edition of its visual art journalism prize.
The winners are:
Damien Davis, an educator, writer, and artist who works have focused on the changing cultural narrative in visual arts.
Melaine Ferdinand-King, a writer and the first curator of the new African American Museum in Rhode Island.
Tyler Green, an art critic and long-time host of The Modern Art Notes podcast.
Alicia Inez Guzman, an investigative journalist whose work has focused on colonialism and land right (her most recent work focusing on impact of nuclear testing on indegenous communities).
Julia Halperin, an investigative data journalist and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, a news outlet focused on tracking representation and equity in the art world.
Sarah Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice (which focuses on the importance of culture in democracy), professor of African and African America Studies at Harvard, and author.
Jan Tumlir, founding editor of the contemporary art journal X-TRA based in LA, and an educator.
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, journalist whose work have focused on the complex relationship between art and politics.
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