The 10^th Western Art Foundation for Promotion Award Recipients Announced

The recipients of the 10^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 awarded to ARAKI Natsumi, Curator of Mori Art Museum (for the exhibition ‘Go Betweens’), FURUTANI Yoshiyuki, Director of Curatorial Division at the Hiroshima Museum of Art (for the exhibitions ‘The Hague School – Intermediators from Barbizon and Van Gogh’ and ‘Normandy: Estuary of the Seine’), and TSUTATANI Noriko, Chief Curator at the Shimane Art Museum (for the exhibition ‘L’Arcadie au bord de l’eau – Le monde mythique de Puvis de Chavannes’), while the Cultural Promotion Award for Institutions was awarded to the Kyoto Costume Institute. (Japanese)