SPIKE LEE AWARDED WEXNER PRIZE

Spike Lee has been chosen to receive the Wexner Prize, a fifty-thousand-dollar award given by the Wexner Center for the Arts to a contemporary artist in any field “who has been consistently original, influential, and challenging to convention,” reports the New York Times’s Ben Sisario. The fifty-year-old filmmaker, who was also recently selected to participate in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is to receive the award in a ceremony at the Wexner in February. Previous recipients include Bill T. Jones, Renzo Piano, Martin Scorsese, and Gerhard Richter.