Emily Jacir in the New York Times

The New York Times just did a great interview with Emily Jacir in which she discusses her upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim. The exhibition will feature Material for a Film, Jacir’s installation piece re-creating the 1972 assassination of the Palestinian poet Wael Zuaiter.

In November, the Guggenheim bestowed Jacir with the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize, one of the most influential international art awards. Previous winners have included Matthew Barney, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Pierre Huyghe. In 2007 Jacir won the prestigious Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for artists under forty.

In October Jacir was part of Women & Their Work’s thirtieth-anniversary group exhibition The Activist Impulse, curated by Regine Basha. (If you missed that show, see it here.)

“I know what it feels like to be a wife that no one pays attention to…”

We all know that female artists are underrepresented in galleries and art history tomes in addition to earning less than their male counterparts. Duh–that’s one of the main reasons Women & Their Work exists. But as a new documentary reveals, there’s another annoying peril that awaits the woman artist: the boyfriend who can’t deal with your success.

Even though photographer Cindy Sherman was already a certified art star with a celebrated 20-year career under her belt when she met and fell in love with filmmaker Paul H-O in the mid-90s, the dude seems utterly taken aback that her lifestyle had a certain corresponding cachet that his lacked. According to H-O in his new doc Guest of Cindy Sherman, he suffered while dating Sherman because his identity “went into hibernation or was subsumed by this much greater force… In the old days there were these things called Rolodexes with little cards. Mine had like 10 cards, and hers had 1,000. And, you know, Salman Rushdie would be in hers. Her world was a lot bigger and more powerful than mine.”

Awww. Wouldn’t it have been a lot hotter of him to acknowledge how lucky he was to share five interesting years with a rad, creative lady? And as for his assertion, “I know what it feels like to be a wife that no one pays attention to”–implying that because he is male, he shouldn’t have to occupy the role of less-famous partner? So. Over it. And Cindy Sherman is apparently over it, too.
I Dated Cindy Sherman…and All I Got Was This Documentary[Salon]
Cindy Sherman’s Un-Famous Ex-Boyfriend Finds That “Being A Wife” Is the Pits[Jezebel]