2003 in review: people

John Elderfield, chief curator at large at the Museum of novel Art in New York, assumed the column of chief curator of painting and sculpture

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Ann Temkin became a curator in the department of painting and statuary at MOMA. She had been curator of new and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1990

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Jorn Utzon Danish architect who is hest known for his design or' the Sydney Opera House, won the $100000 Pritzker Prize from the Hyatt Foundation.

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Daisy Youngblood, creator of figurative alloy of copper and clay sculptures, was awarded a $500000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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Adam D Weinberg was appointed director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in novel York. Since 1999, he had been director of the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.

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Joachim Pissarro, former Yale professor and curator at the university's art gallery, was named curator in the department of painting and plastic art at the Museum of recent Art.

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Sarah Sze artist whose elaborate site-specific installations incorporate ordinary materials, was awarded a $500000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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Hans Belting, Northwestern University professor and author, received the corporation Art Association's award for lifetime achievement in art writing.

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Bridget Riley, leading British Op art painter, was awarded a Praemium Imperiale, worth approximately $125000 through the Japan Art Association.

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Willard Holme became director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Since 1994 he had been factor director and chief operating officer at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Josef Helfenstein, professor and former head of the Kraanert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, became director of the Menil Collection in Houston.

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Tim Griffin, senior editor at Artforum, was named editor of the magazine. His work Contamination, a collaboration with Peter Halley, was published in 2002

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James Cuno, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London since 2002 and former head of the Harvard University Art Museums, was named president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Anne Litle Poulet for 20 years head of the European decorative arts and statuary department at of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was named director of the Frick Collection in fresh York.

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Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco-based artist known for his colorful paintings of cakes and cityscapes, received the society Art Association's artist award for lifetime achievement.

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The Guerrilla Girls, artist-activist clump whose works critique sexism in the art world, won the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism from the association Art Association.

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