BUCKSBAUM PRIZE.The Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). presented the first winner of the Bucksbaum Award of $100,000 and a residency to Paul Pfeiffer of Brooklyn, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on May 1. The prize will be given every two years during the Whitney Biennial to an emerging artist living and working in the U.S. whose work is included in the show. Melva Bucksbaum, a Whitney trustee since 1996, runs the Bucksbaum Family Foundation of Des Moines that established the prize. Thirty-four-year-old Pfeiffer uses photography, sculpture, video, computer photo-collage and digital technology to explore the human body and psyche. Although the award follows a growing trend of significant museum support for artists such as London's Tate Gallery's annual Turner prize, hopefully it will not befall be·fall v. be·fell , be·fall·en , be·fall·ing, be·falls v.intr. To come to pass; happen. v.tr. To happen to. See Synonyms at happen. a similar fate as the Guggenheim's $50,000 Hugo Boss prize The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. The prize is administered by the Guggenheim Museum and sponsored by the Hugo Boss clothing company. that dissolved after only two awards were given. |
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