The shortlist for the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize has been announced, with Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, Wael Shawky and Anicka Yi making the list of honorees.  The winner announcement and ceremony will take place in October of 2016, and will give the winning artist an exhibition at the Guggenheim. (more…)

The Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to Vietnamese-born conceptual artist Danh Vo, 37, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced today. The award, founded in 1996, grants $100,000 to the winning artist. Mr. Vo’s family fled South Vietnam at an early age and he was raised in Denmark. (more…)

The Hugo Boss Prize dinner at the Guggenheim scheduled for Thursday has been cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, but the committee will announce the winner tomorrow regardless. The 2012 nominees are Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Monika Sosnowska, Qiu Zhijie, Danh Vo and Tris Vonna-Michell. (more…)

stazione (Rialto Mercato), Emily Jacir (2008) via Alexander and Bonin

Emily Jacir: Dispatch is the artist’s second solo exhibition shown at Alexander and Bonin Gallery in New York City. The exhibition runs through November 28 and features works from two of Jacir’s most recent projects, Lydda Airport – a short film that takes place at the eponymous location sometime in the mid to late 1930’s. Also to be featured at photographs and the brochure of Jacir’s stazione, which was conceived for the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009 but never realized due to its unexpected cancellation by Venetian municipal authorities without explanation.

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