and the judge is.........

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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Sarah Eades

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The judge for the Walters Prize 2008 has been announced.

Paris based curator Catherine David will be deciding the winner of the 2008 Walters Prize, choosing from the work of the four finalists announced earlier this year.

Here is a bit about here from the 'official' press release:

Catherine David has worked at the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou (1982-90), the Galerie National du Jeu de Paume (1990-94) and the Witte de With, center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (2002-04).

She is highly regarded for her groundbreaking role as director of documenta X (1994-97) and her acclaimed project Contemporary Arab Representations 1 and 2, produced in association with the Tàpies Foundation (2003). More recently, she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2005-06), where she worked towards a project entitled Di/Visions: Culture and politics of the Middle East (2007).

Earlier this year, she received the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, in New York. She was selected for the award by a panel of leading critics, curators and art experts, which praised her most recent collaborations between institutions in the Arab World and the art world as being particularly important for our time, and acknowledged her as someone whose contributions have shaped the way we conceive exhibition making today.
 
photo credit: Catherine David, Photo, by Bob Goedewaagen