Araki Natsumi to Receive 26th Ringa Art Encouragement Prize, 12/10

Mori Art Museum curator Araki Natsumi, who organized the exhibition "Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children" held at Mori Art Museum has been awarded the 26th Ringa Art Encouragement Prize (Art Criticism Division).

The Ringa Art Encouragement Prize (organized by the Ringa Art Encouragement Fund), for the purpose of contributing to the promotion of art and fostering young artists, honors the activities of outstanding new and powerful art critics and art historians in Japan.

The prize was awarded for Araki' s work in organizing the "Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children" exhibition and for her essay in the exhibition catalogue. In outlining the reasons for their decision, Head of the Fund Steering Committee Ichikawa Masanori noted, "This timely project dealt with contemporary themes without lumping the world's problems together, adopting a clear approach to highlight and open our eyes to the complex, individual problems and realities around the world that tend to be overlooked in the context of globalism. It was an incomparable exhibition the likes of which could only have been realized by Araki, who has proved capable of adopting a sensitive approach in viewing the realities of the world."

The award ceremony will take place at Hotel New Otani in Tokyo on Wednesday, December 10, 2014.