Yesterday it was announced that Glasgow-born artist Susan Philipsz had won the 2010 Turner Prize for “Lowlands,” a sound installation featuring her performance of a 16th century Scottish lament by a sailor lost at sea. While it was the first time that a sound installation had even been shortlisted for the contemporary art prize, she was the favorite among bookies to win.

Philipsz — who is only the fourth woman to win the Turner Prize — presented her 2008 sound installation I See a Darkness at the Tanya Bonakdar gallery in New York earlier this year. If you live in London, be sure to check out Surround Me, a multi-site public sound project and her first commission in the city. It can be heard on weekends from 10am to 5 pm through January 2nd.

While the jury is still out on the 2010 Turner Prize — and will be until the winner is named December 6 — the four nominees for this year’s award have just been announced: painter Dexter Dalwood, painter/sculptor Angela de la Cruz, filmmakers Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of the Otolith Group, and sound artist Susan Philipsz.

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This summer, Creative Time launches New York’s first public art quadrennial, PLOT, with The World & Nearer Ones, an exhibition on Governors Island featuring 19 individual artists and artist collectives from nine different countries. Minutes away from Manhattan and Brooklyn by ferry, Governors Island in New York Harbor was home to the US military for more than 200 years, but now its fortresses, officer’s houses, chapel, theater, and other sites hold contemporary art. Exhibition curator Mark Beasley divides the work, which engages the island’s history and future, between indoor and outdoor locales — making the discovery of the artists’ projects an adventure. Read More »