Cao Fei, Walid Raad Among Artists Shortlisted for Hugo Boss Prize

It’s time to brush up on our pronounciation of “Apichatpong Weerasethakul,” because the Thai filmmaker is among the six artists shortlisted for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize. Administered by the Guggenheim Foundation, the $100,000 prize is awarded every other year to an artist who has made an important contribution to contemporary art. Past winners include Emily Jacir, Matthew Barney, and Pierre Huyghe. The finalists for the prize’s eighth incarnation are Weerasethakul, Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Natascha