The 11^th Western Art Foundation for Promotion Award Recipients Announced

The recipients of the 11^th Western Art Foundation for Promotion Award, which publicly honor individuals and organizations involved in curating exhibitions that have contributed to the understanding of Western art and academic research in the field of Western art, were announced. The Academic Award for Individuals was given to UEMATSU Yuka, Chief Curator of the National Museum of Art, Osaka (for the exhibition ‘Wolfgang Tillmans: Your Body’), and NONAKA Akira, Curator of the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum (for the exhibitions ‘Julio González Retrospective: Master of Iron Sculpture’). The Cultural Promotion Award for Institutions was given to Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd, which lent artworks from its collection to exhibitions such as ‘JAPANS LIEBE IMPRESSIONISMUS Von Monet bis Renoir’ held in Germany and contributed to the promotion of Western art research and cultural exchanges in Japan. (Japanese)