above: detail from ‘Elephants’, the first place winner of the 2012 ArtPrize

ArtPrize has become the world’s largest art competition by combining $560,000 in total prizes with an open call for artists, venues, and critics. This year’s ArtPrize Winner Adonna Khare mural of “Elephants” is an illustrated series of life sized pachyderms, intertwined with a menagerie of animals. (Links to all the finalists are at the end of this post). (more…)