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2019 Herb Alpert Award Winners (L-R) Meshell Ndegeocello, Cecilia Vicuna, Herb Alpert, Lani Hall Alpert, Pam Tanowitz, Lloyd Suh, Beatriz Santiago Munoz. Photo by Shawn Connell Studios

Recipients of 2019 Herb Alpert Awards Announced >

May 16, 2019

The Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts have announced the five winners of this year’s Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which recognizes midcareer artists working in the fields of visual art, film and video, music, theater, and dance, and supports their practices by providing them with unrestricted $75,000 prizes…. Continue reading at ARTFORUM…

Herb & Lani Alpert with CalArts President Ravi Rajan, Herb Alpert Foundation President Rona Sebastian & Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Director Irene Borger. Photo by Shawn Connell Studios

Winners of 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Named >

May 16, 2019

“Artists are truth-seekers—they need to be able to express their truth,” Herb Alpert, the foundation’s namesake, told ARTnews. “The prize is for mid-career artists because I want them to be able to say what they need.”… Continue reading at ARTnews

Left to right: Lani Hall Alpert, Ravi Rajan, Herb Alpert, Rona Sebastian

A&M Records Co-Founder Herb Alpert Marks 25 Years of Funding Artists When DC Won’t: ‘Politicians Don’t Get It’ >

May 2, 2019

Twenty-five years after legendary jazz trumpeter — and A&M Records co-founder — Herb Alpert established his Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) in response to cutbacks in government funding for the arts, the situation hasn’t changed. “The politicians don’t get it,” says Alpert, 84, from his home in Santa Monica, Calif. “The heart and soul of…