EUNGIE JOO AND ELIZABETH PEYTON WIN AWARDS

The Menil Collection has named Eungie Joo as the third recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, a biannual prize the museum created in 2001. Joo is curator and director of the Gallery at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in Los Angeles. She was selected from a field of nine candidates by Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Lawrence Rinder, dean of graduate studies at the California College of Art; and Philippe Vergne of the Walker Art Center. Elsewhere, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has announced that Elizabeth Peyton has received the 2006 Larry Aldrich Award. The honoree receives twenty-five thousand dollars and will have a solo exhibition at the museum in Connecticut in 2008.