The American Academy of Arts and Letters presented a reading of tributes over Zoom on Thursday, November 12, from 7 to 8 p.m. EST. A video recording is now available.
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June 5, 2020 statement from Board of Directors.
Billie Tsien on recommittment to the arts in times of vulnerability.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces the recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize and four Arts and Letters Awards.
Peter Eisenman, David W. Blight, Richard Powers, and Bill Henderson receive top awards in Architecture, History, Literature, and Service to the Arts.
The Academy has cancelled all spring events in the interest of public health.
Twenty-four artists receive awards and purchase prizes totaling $295,000.
Leslie Marmon Silko wins the second biennial $100,000 Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award for a significant literary contribution, and eighteen writers receive literature prizes.
In the Green and The Loophole have won the 2020 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater.
Due to the public health risk posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Academy is postponing An Afternoon of Music and Art, originally scheduled for Sunday, March 22, 2020, to a future date.