NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS; CASTELLO DI RIVOLI GRANT WINNER ANNOUNCED
The artist Andrew Wyeth was among nine recipients of the National Medal of Arts announced yesterday by President Bush, reports Lawrence van Gelder in the New York Times_. The nominations were managed by the National Endowment for the Arts. Other recipients of the medal included the painter George Tooker and arts patrons Roy R. Neuberger and Henry Steinway.
Castello di Rivoli has announced that a 2007 Fellowship for Young Italian Artists has been awarded to Christian Frosi. The winning artist, selected every year from a list of candidates under the age of forty, receives a grant of twenty thousand euros (twenty-nine thousand dollars). Selected by Marcella Beccaria, curator at Castello di Rivoli, Frosi joins the ranks of 2007 fellowship winners Alex Cecchetti and Alice Guareschi.
