Omer Fast Wins Whitney Award

NEW YORK—Omer Fast has won the year's Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art, reports the New York Times. The prize, which goes to an emerging artist included in the Whitney Biennial, comes with a $100,000 stipend and a solo show at the museum.

In the Biennial, the 36-year-old Israeli-born artist presents a 14-minute video, The Casting, on both sides of two suspended screens. In the work, Fast interviews a U.S. Army sergeant who tells two stories: of dating a woman in Germany and of killing a civilian in Iraq. The two are interwoven in a commentary on love, death, memory, and accident.

The prize was established in 2000 by the museum and the Bucksbaum Family Foundation, overseen by Whitney trustee Melva Bucksbaum. The award will be presented in a ceremony on April 29.