“The Mystery of Art”
On Monday, Alpert celebrated 25 years of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA), a $75,000 unrestricted prize given to five exceptional mid-career artists (you could call it Alpert’s own version of the MacArthur “Genius Grant”), with a reception in New York City that gathered alumni honorees and selection committee panelists as well as this year’s award winners. Announced last Friday, they are choreographer Pam Tanowitz, filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, singer-songwriter-bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, playwright Lloyd Suh and artist-poet-activist Cecilia Vicuña…