Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize Recipients Announced.

On March 13, the Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for the fiscal year 2011. The recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize were photographer HAYAKEYAMA Naoya (for his exhibition ‘Natural Stories’) and architect BAN Shigeru (for his work ‘Paper Architecture’, which was used in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake) in the Fine Arts category; art historian SUZUKI Tokiko (for her monograph titled ‘The Body in Representations of the French Revolution’) in the Criticism category; and SATŌ Masahiko, Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (for his TV programs ‘0655’ and ‘2355’) in the Media Art category. The recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for the fiscal year 2011 were artist as well as sculptor ODANI Motohiko (for his exhibition ‘Phantom Limb’) in the Fine Art category; KAI Kenji, Artistic Director at Sendai Mediatheque (for his Great East Japan Earthquake recovery activities for ‘the Center for remembering 3.11’) in the Development of the Arts category; and visual culture researcher SATŌ Morihiro (for his monograph ‘Topography and Japanese Modernity’) in the Criticism category; and animation director NAGAI Tatsuyuki (for his animation ‘Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day’) in the Media Arts category. (Japanese)