Hamza Walker Wins $100,000 Ordway Prize

Hamza Walker Wins $100,000 Ordway Prize

Congratulations to Hamza Walker, curator at The Renaissance Society — it has just been announced that he’s won the Ordway Prize from Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum! Walker, along with artist Artur Zmijewski, will receive an unrestricted...
Is the $100,000 Ordway Prize Too Much?

Is the $100,000 Ordway Prize Too Much?

I’d never heard of the Ordway Prize until a few weeks ago, when two highly respected Chicago-based arts professionals (artist Tania Bruguera, who also lives in Havana, Cuba, and Hamza Walker, curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago) were...