The
2008 winner of the Roswitha Haftmann Prize is the Scottish video artist
Douglas Gordon, reports Dexigner. The award ceremony will take place on
May 8 at Kunsthaus Z�rich, when the board of the Roswitha Haftmann
Foundation will award the prize, valued at 150,000 Swiss francs
($135,975). Gordon is the latest in an illustrious list of artists who
have received the prize since it was founded by the much-admired
gallerist Roswitha Haftmann. The first recipient of the prize, which is
financed by the returns from a trust fund, was Walter de Maria in 2001.
He was followed by Maria Lassnig, Jeff Wall, Mona Hatoum, Robert Ryman,
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and Richard Artschwager. The foundation
awards the prize every one to three years to a living artist for a body
of work of outstanding importance. The winners are selected by members
of the board, which is made up of directors of Kunstmuseum Bern,
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and Kunsthaus Z�rich. (
Dexigner, January 21, 2008)
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The
Euphronios krater, a twenty-five-hundred-year-old vase at the heart of
a three-decade tug of war between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York and the Italian government, received a hero�s welcome in Italy on
Friday, reports the Elisabetta Povoledo in the New York Times. Povoledo
also reports that, in an unprecedented agreement, the New York
philanthropist Shelby White has ceded ten classical antiquities from
her private collection that Italy contends were looted from its soil,
the Italian culture minister confirmed this week. Nine of the ten
ancient Greek and Etruscan objects were delivered on Wednesday to the
Italian Consulate on Park Avenue and will soon be crated and shipped to
Italy, the minister, Francesco Rutelli, said in an interview in Rome.
Rutelli said that White�s decision was �extraordinarily positive,� as
well as groundbreaking. �It is a generous and open-minded gesture,� he
said. Unlike the museums, which will receive long-term art loans under
the agreements, White will receive nothing other than Italy�s thanks in
return. (
The New York Times, January 21, 2008)
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