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2009 National Arts Awards
10/05/2009 - By Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City

2009 National Arts Awards

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS HONORS 2009 NATIONAL ARTS AWARDEES 
 
Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, Ed Ruscha, Sidney Harman and Anne Finucane for Bank of America  

Last night, on October 5th, Americans for the Arts, the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America, hosted a chicly attired assortment of art world luminaries, political mavens and Hollywood heavyweights at its annual National Arts Awards. Actor and activist Robert Redford, writer Salman Rushdie, artist Ed Ruscha, philanthropist Sidney Harman, and Anne Finucane, Bank of America were honored for their contributions to the arts as part of National Arts and Humanities Month at the event hed at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presented Robert Redford with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Lisa Phillips of the New Museum of Contemporary Art presented Ed Ruscha with an Artistic Excellence Award, Brooklyn author Paul Auster presented Salman Rushdie with the Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Ats, Elliot Gerson of the Aspen Institute presented the Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts to Sidney Harman, and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns presented the Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award to Anne Finucane, who accepted on behalf of Bank of America.


A stunning violin performance by 19 year‐old Andrea Jarrett garnered a standing ovation and broad smiles for the Juilliard student and winner of the 2009 Presidential Sholars in the Arts award.


The glamorous crowd of international guests included Caroline Kennedy‐Schlossberg, actor Dennis Hopper, actress Kerry Washington, Robert Redford’s wife Sibylle Szaggars-Redford and his daughter Amy Redford, artist Jeff Koons and his wife Justine Koons, Eli Broad (Co‐chair, National Arts Awards), Isabella and Theodor Dalenson (Co‐chairs, National Arts Awards), Maria Bell (Chair, National Arts Awards) and her husband Bill Bell, Robert L. Lynch (President and CEO, Americans for the Arts), Julie Minskoff (Co‐chair, National Arts Awards), Sheila C. Johnson (Honorary Chair, National Arts Awards), Pulitzer Prize‐winning poet Paul Muldoon, photographer Todd Eberle, Emily Rafferty (President, Metropolitan Museum of Art), gallerist Larry Gagosian and designer Vera Wang, art dealer Simon de Pury, author Siri Hustvedt, Representative Jane Harman (D – California), Thelma Golden (Executive Director, Studio Museum of Harlem), artist Chuck Close, designer Tina Lutz Morris, philanthropist Marcia Mishaan, journalists Maureen Orth and Mike Barnicle, Adam Weinberg of the Whitney Museum of American Art, writer James Frey, artists Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, Anne‐Imelda M. Radice (director, Institute of Museum and Library Services), Rachel Goslins (executive director, the Presidential Committee for the Arts and Humanities), Margo Lion (co‐chair, the Presidential Committee for the Arts and Humanities) and Kate D. Levin (New York City Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs), among others.

The National Arts Awards recognize those artists and arts leaders who exhibit exemplary national leadership and whose work demostrates extraordinary artistic achievement. They are organizations and individuals—artists, business leaders, and patrons—who understand that the arts enrich people and communities alike. With offices in Washington, DC, and New York City, Americans for the Arts has a record of forty‐nine years of service. The organization is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to prticipate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org.

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