London-based artist Sophia Al-Maria has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Frieze London Artist Award. The award – in partnership with Forma – offers an early- or mid-career artist the opportunity to realise an ambitious new commission at Frieze London.
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids, in research published today (July 2) in Nature.
Independent will take place next year May 14-17, 2026 at a new home at Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot, light-filled venue located adjacent to the Lower East Side gallery community and contemporary art institutions.