Spike Lee wins award for artistic integrity
Spike Lee is $50,000 richer after winning the Wexner Prize, an award recognizing innovation, quality and integrity among artists, the AP reports.
The 50-year-old filmmaker received the award’s silver hammer sculpture at the New Albany, Ohio, home of Abigail and Les Wexner, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Columbus-based clothing and specialty products retailer Limited Brands Inc.
“Spike Lee exemplifies what the Wexner Prize was created to celebrate: a bold creative spirit who is unafraid to provoke and challenge us,” Les Wexner said in a statement. “He tests the American mind, and its attitudes, assumptions and values, and in doing so, he has advanced American cinema in remarkable ways.”
Lee is the 13th artist to win the award. A selection of his films will be shown at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus this month.
[Photo: Spike Lee with Abigail Wexner. AP]
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