People - influential art world figures - 1993 in Review

Martin Puryear, maker of highly crafted organic plastic arts was given the College Art Association's artist award for a distinguished material part of work.

Sherri Geldin, associate director of the observes Angeles Museum of Congemporary Art, became director of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Thomas McEvilley, Rice University professor and Artforum contributing editor, won the community Art Association's Mather award for distinction in art criticism.

Jane Alexander, award-winning actress who greatest in quantity recently starred in The Sisters Rosensweig upon Broadway, was appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect who designed the Yerta Buena Gardens Visual Arts Center in San Francisco, won the $100000 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Mary solicit Sweeney Price was appointed director of the Newark Museum. A staff member of the museum since 1975 she had been delegate director since 1990.

Jay Gates was named director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Formerly he was head of the Seattle Art Museum and director of the Spencer Museum in Lawrence, Kan.

Willem de Kooning, pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter, received the society Art Association's distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement.

Virginia Spate, art historian at Sydney's Power Institute of Fine Arts, was awarded the Mitchell Prize of $15000 for her volume Claude Monet Life and Work (Rizzoli).

Ann Hamilton was recognized for her evocative large-scale installations with a John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation fellowship award of $240000

Sara Campbell, an authority upon Degas bronzes, was named director of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. She had been curator there since 1974

Sheldon Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981 was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities by the agency of President Bill Clinton.

Bruce Nauman, designer of disturbing, post-Duchampian plastic arts and installations, was awarded the $100000 Wolf Prize for the Arts by dint of the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

Alan Shestack was appointed representative director of the National Gallery of Art. Previously he had headed the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Mark Rosenthal, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum. was appointed curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery of Art.

COPYRIGHT 1994 Brant Publications, Inc.

COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group