During the summer of 2000, Simon worked for the New York Times Magazine photographing individuals who were wrongly convicted, imprisoned, then thankfully, freed from death row. Following the assignment, she applied for a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography to travel across the United States to photograph and interview people who were wrongly convicted–in […]
Using green paint, Alÿs walked along the armistice border, known as ‘The Green Line’. The border was created by Israeli general Moshe Dayan after Israel’s War of Independence, an armistice line essentially dividing Jerusalem in half: Israel got the western side, Arabs got the east. This remained the border until the Six Day War in […]
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Hans-Peter Feldmann was the winner of the eighth Biennal Hugo Boss Prize, an award by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art, with an attached honorarium of $100,000.
