Arts Desk
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JOHNSON’S GENEROSITY
Philip Johnson, who died last month, was the first curator of architecture and design for the Museum of Modern Art. Now in his honor the museum has installed four artworks that Johnson gave to the museum over the years. In the lobby is Andy Warhol’s “S&H Green Stamps” (1962), given to the museum in 1998; in the atrium are Mark Rothko’s “No. 10” (1950), which Johnson gave to MoMA in 1952,and two works by Willem de Kooning, “Untitled V” (1982) and “Untitled XIX” (1977), donated in 1998. The works are typical of his collection, which also included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Frank Stella.
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The winners of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Awards competition for musical theater, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, are: “Bringers” by David Hudson and Paul Libman, “Broadcast” by Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy, and “Red” by Brian Lowdermilk and Marcus Stevens. The three musicals will be given staged readings by nonprofit theaters in New York City in 2005. … The Academy of American Poets has selected Ann Snodgrass as the recipient of its 2004 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship. The $20,000 prize is awarded every other year for an American translator of Italian poetry. For Ms. Snodgrass, this will help her complete a translation of the selected poems of Vittorio Sereni (1913-83). She will also enjoy a six-week residency at the American Academy in Rome. … The Hutch Crossword Book Award has been given to Amitav Ghosh for “The Hungry Tide” (Ravi Dayal) and Chandrasekhar Rath for “Astride The Wheel: Yantrarudha” (Oxford University Press), translated into English from the Indian language Oriya by Jatindra Kumar Nayak. … Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has named four new trustees: Elizabeth M. Ainslie, head of Elizabeth Ainslie Interiors in New York; Kurt Andersen, the novelist, radio host, and former editor of New York and Spy magazines; Michael Francis, executive vice-president of marketing for Target; and John Maeda, a graphic designer, artist, and computer scientist at MIT.
