The Calvert Journal wins Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize media award

The Calvert Journal has won the independent Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize’s award for promotion of art in the media, it was announced today. The Calvert Journal was one of seven other online media projects in the category, including Harper’s Bazaar Art, The Art Newspaper, Afisha Vozdukh, Garage Magazine, Art Guide, Around Art and Blouin Artinfo.

The Kuryokhin Prize, established in 2009, is one of Russia’s most prestigious independent art awards. The prize is based on the Pop-Mechanica principles established in the 1990s by Russian artist and musician Sergey Kuryokhin, which privilege unpredictability, improvisation and provocation within art, and pursue new interaction between different art forms.

Among the jury at this year’s award are Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum, Elena Kolovskaya, director for the Pro Arte foundation, and the Soviet film actor Sergei Solovyov.