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The article discusses Düsseldorf, Germany artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, recipient of the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, a monetary award offered to artists by the Guggenheim Museum. Feldmann collects and uses photographic images to create art, occasionally taking his own photographs, and the article offers a discussion of the use of found objects and images in art and especially in conceptual art from the 1960s. Feldmann's early works consisted of assorted images, and he describes his work as attempting to show normal life. During the 1970s and 1980s, Feldmann took a hiatus from exhibition to run a gift shop. The author discusses Feldmann's two-part book "Voyeur," consisting almost entirely of images, and suggests that Feldmann's work focuses on the ordinary.

A biography of artist Emily Jacir is presented. She was born in 1970 in a Palestinian family and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. She made "Crossing Surda," a 130-minute film and frequently paired at exhibitions with "Where We Come From." In November 2008, she was chosen to get the Hugo Boss Prize from a shortlist of finalist and is a full-time instructor of digital-video at the International Academy of Art Palestine since 2007.

The article reports on the Turner Prize art competition. The competition recognizes significant contemporary artists. The author focuses on 2007 nominee, Phil Collins, a video artist. The history of the competition, introduced by London's Tate museum in 1984, is presented. Former nominees are mentioned. The Bucksbaum Award and the Hugo Boss Prize are discussed.

The article profiles English artist Tacita Dean, winner of the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize. Her career focuses on conceptual filmmaking. It is inferred that though her work has resemblance with J. M. W. Turner's and Cy Twombly's, or Robert Bresson's, it does not come out of any other artists or tradition. He is considered as a poet of lost things, because her work depicts things that are becoming obsolete. Her films show old fashioned kind of beauty, a depth and complexity, and a sense of subtle light.

Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrč's medium is architecture— or perhaps more specifically, the sculptural representation of architecture as it relates to city planning. Potrč is a clear-eyed pragmatist who sees in the spontaneous generation of favela architecture the expressions of both sustainable environment and political self-determination. These ideas are perhaps most evident in Potrč's "core building" pieces, like the one for which the Guggenheim Museum awarded her the 2000 Hugo Boss Prize. In simple prototypes for contemporary dwellings, the most basic amenities— a roof over one's head, a line for water and another for waste— provide the infrastructure around which the favela or township inhabitant can improvise his or her own idea of home.

The article focuses on artistic career of artist Tacita Dean. It highlights her achievements which include her nominations for the Turner Prize in 1998, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006 and an electee of the Royal Academy of Arts. It reports on her inspiration from British landscape painter John Constable, as of April 2021.

The article presents art news briefs as of March 2014. The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, director of the film "12 Years a Slave," has withdrawn himself from consideration for the Hugo Boss Prize. The French post office has rejected a request from a stamp-collecting society to have artist Gustave Courbet's erotic painting "L'Origine du Monde" featured on a series of stamps. Fashion writer Derek Blasberg has been hired by the Gagosian Gallery.

The article reports on the achievements of several artists including dancer Cyd Charisse, photographer Roy R. DeCarava and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost, who have been honored by U. S. President George W. Bush with the 2006 National Medal of Arts. Artist Tacita Dean has won the $50,000 Hugo Boss Prize given by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Artist Gomma Abts is the first woman to win the Turner Prize given by the Tate Britain in London, England.

Announces the finalists of the Hugo Boss Prize given by the Guggenheim Museum to an artist whose work represents a significant development in the contemporary art in New York City. Assertion of Aldous Huxley on the representation of contemporary by the finalists; Description of the style of the finalists; Validation of the facts of human life.

The article focuses on Katherine Brinson, contemporary art curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and her involvement with Guggenheim's biennial Hugo Boss Prize and her job of acquiring work for the permanent collection of the museum.

The article announces that Vietnamese-born conceptual artist Danh Vo will be the recipient of the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize.

The article announces that German artists Hans-Peter Feldmann was the 2010 winner of the Hugo Boss Prize, established by fashion house Hugo Boss AG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to recognize achievement in contemporary art.

The article previews content available on the publication's website at WWD.com on topics such as fashion house Hugo Boss' presentation of its annual prize for contemporary art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Presents updates on the clothing industry in the U.S. as of November 8, 2004. Compensation to be received by Myron Ullman III as CEO of J.C. Penney; Information on a billboard advertisement placed by political junkie Kenneth Cole about the presidential election; Background on the launch of men's magazine "Sly"; Finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2004.