THE PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE CELEBRATES ITS 30TH EDITION

The Praemium Imperiale, the most prestigious art award in the world, announced the laureates of its 30^th edition a few weeks ago. This prize was created in 1989 by the Imperial Family of Japan to award “the outstanding contributing to the development, promotion and progress of the arts” (Praemium Imperiale, 2005), as well as to cover the areas of achievement which are not included in the Nobel Prize: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theatre/film. In the past editions, more than 150 personalities of the arts had been recognized such as Federico Fellini, Frank Genry, Norman Foster, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Daniel Barenboim and most recently Plácido Domingo, Mikhail Baryshnkiov, Rafel Moneo and Martin Scorsese. And this year, in its 30^th edition the following artists and creatives will join the selected list of laureates: Pierre Alechinsky (Painting), Fujiko Nakaya (Sculpture), Christian de Portzamparc (Architecture), Riccardo Muti (Music) and Catherine Deneuve (Theatre/Film).

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