Cardiff’s Artes Mundi 9 prize to be split between six nominees

Judges of Britain’s largest visual arts prize wanted to acknowledge the ‘exceptional upheaval’ of the Covid-19 pandemicOne of the most important art prizes in the UK is to be split between its six nominees after the Artes Mundi 9 judging panel said it wanted to acknowledge the “exceptional social and economic upheaval” of the Covid-19 pandemic.Artes Mundi – the Cardiff-based biennial exhibition that shows political art – will give £10,000 awards to