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Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, cofounder and chairman of the Fundacion Cisneros, has been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor of the Republic of France. The award, given for outstanding contributions to humankind, honors her work in assembling the Coleccion Orinoco, which contains 2,000 examples of art and artifacts from the southern Amazon Basin.

The artist collaborative General Idea was recently given the $10,000 Bell Canada Art Award in Video Art by the Canada Council for the Arts. AA Bronson, the sole surviving member of the group, which included the late Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, accepted the award.

San Francisco-based photographer Richard Misrach is the winner of the first annual Environmental Messenger of the Year award, given by the Environmental Grantmakers Association for his series of photographs of a severely polluted stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana called "Cancer Alley."

The Municipal Art Society of New York recently gave its MASterwork Awards. The Museum of American Folk Art, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, won recognition for best new building. The new Prada flagship store [see p. 31], designed by Rem Koolhaas, won the award for best commercial restoration. Terminal 4 at Kennedy Airport, with works by Diller + Scofidio, Harry Roseman and Deborah Masters, was cited for best new public art. The award for best urban design or planning concept was presented to Dan Doctoroff and Alex Garvin for NYC2012, the city's scheme to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced 35 winners of its biennial grants, which total $700,000. The awards are given to promising artists who have not yet received widespread or commercial attention. They are John Bankston, Suzanne Bocanegra, Nina Bovasso, Marco Brambilla, Christopher Broughton, Francis Cape, Nick Cave, Robert Chambers, Michael A. Cummings, Lisa Corinne Davis, Tara Donovan, Jenny Dubnau, Keith Edmier, Rico Gatson, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Evan Holloway, Sedrick E. Huckaby, Margie Hughto, Steven Hull, Sergei Isupov, Brad Kahlhamer, Nina Katchadourian, Karen LaMonte, Nikki S. Lee, Julie Mehretu, A. Laurie Palmer, Sheila Pepe, Mauro Restiffe, Margo Sawyer, Michelle Segre, Sondra Sherman, Jean Shin, Marc Trujillo, Judyth van Amringe and Tetsuya Yamada.

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