PAST HONOREES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Will Barnet μ Marian Anderson § Mikhail Baryshnikov μ Dame Julie Andrews Harry Belafonte μ Richard Avedon Chuck Close μ George Balanchine § John Baldessari Betty Comden & Adolph Green μ Tony Bennett ~ Barbara Cook μ Leonard Bernstein § Merce Cunningham μ Hume Cronyn § Anna Deavere Smith μ Clive Davis ~ Renée Fleming μ Agnes DeMille § Ben Folds Aretha Franklin Thelma Golden Frank O. Gehry Herbie Hancock Martha Graham § Hugh Hardy μ Helen Hayes § Kitty Carlisle Hart Luchita Hurtado ~ Al Hirschfeld μ Ellsworth Kelly Jenny Holzer B.B. King + Judith Jamison μ Lincoln Kirstein § Peter Martins Thomas Krens μ Jacob Lawrence Yoko Ono μ Angela Lansbury Nam June Paik μ Sophia Loren ~ Gordon Parks μ Richard Meier James Stewart Polshek μ Arthur Mitchell § Harold Prince μ Jessye Norman § Robert Rauschenberg μ William Paley § Salman Rushdie μ Joseph Papp § Martin Scorsese μ Itzhak Perlman § Robert Redford Joel Shapiro Jason Robards § Beverly Sills μ James Rosenquist + Brian Stokes Mitchell Richard Serra Paul Taylor μ Beverly Sills § Twyla Tharp μ Neil Simon § Ai Weiwei Stephen Sondheim § Mavis Staples ~ ARTS ADVOCACY Frank Stella + Alec Baldwin Isaac Stern § Hillary Clinton Jessica Tandy § Chuck Close Billy Taylor § Michael Greene, National Academy of Paul Taylor Recording Arts & Sciences Lila Acheson Wallace § Phil Ramone Christopher Reeve OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS Wendy Wasserstein TO THE ARTS Doug Aitken ARTS EDUCATION Edward Albee μ Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Herb Alpert Lin Arison, YoungArts American Legion Auxiliary Martina Arroyo, artist Richard Avedon μ William Bassell, public school principal Alberto M. Carvalho, public school Eli Broad * superintendent Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Schuyler Chapin, civic leader Sidney Harman * CMA Foundation Joan W. Harris * Pierre Dulaine & Yvonne Marceau, American Martha Rivers Ingram** Ballroom Theater Joan and Irwin Jacobs Midori Goto, artist Sheila C. Johnson * Agnes Gund, philanthropist Teresa Heinz Kerry * Wynton Marsalis, artist Jo Carole Lauder Arthur Mitchell, artist The Honorable Earle I. Mack The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Raymond Nasher * P.S. ARTS John and Mary Pappajohn ** President’s Committee on the Arts and the David Rockefeller * Humanities Vicki and Roger Sant ** Studio in a School Association Beverley Taylor Sorenson ** Alice Walton Roselyne Chroman Swig Ann Ziff ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE Christo and Jeanne-Claude LEGACY Jeff Koons Maria Arena Bell Peter Martins Madeleine H. Berman Ed Ruscha Susan and David Goode Cindy Sherman William Lehr, Jr. Kirk Varnedoe, Memorial Tribute Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern Award, SPECIAL RECOGNITION Excellence in Classical Music Representative John Brademas Bravo Television, Excellence in Arts & Media CORPORATE HONOREES Representative Amory Houghton, Jr. American Express Mike Jordan, CBS, Outstanding Vision and Amerindo Investment Advisors Exemplary Contributions to the Arts AT&T Institute for Museum and Library Services, In AXA Art Insurance Corporation Honor of 25 Years of Service Bank of America National Endowment for the Arts, In Honor of Citigroup, Inc. 40 years of Service FleetBoston Financial Corporation Representative Jerrold Nadler General Electric United States Conference of Mayors, In Honor The Hearst Corporation of its 75th Anniversary IBM Corporation JP Morgan Chase & Co. YOUNG ARTIST Lockheed Martin Sofia Coppola The McGraw-Hill Companies Andra Day ^ MetLife Dakota Fanning ∞ Music Industry and NAMM Lady Gaga ^ NationsBank Josh Groban ∞ Principal Financial Group Jake Gyllenhaal Procter & Gamble David Hallberg ∞ Target Corporation John Legend Texaco Inc. Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte ∞ Time Warner Justin Peck ^ United Technologies Corporation Ben Platt ^ VH1 Natalie Portman Wells Fargo & Company Gabourey Sidibe ∞ Esperanza Spalding ^ INDIVIDUAL PHILANTHROPY Mena Suvari Paul G. Allen ** Uma Thurman Wallis Annenberg * Kerry Washington Brooke Astor Kehinde Wiley FEATURED ARTIST Ed Ruscha John Baldessari Kenny Scharf Will Cotton Jennifer Steinkamp Salvador Dali Frank Stella Todd Eberle Sarah Sze Shepard Fairey Andy Warhol Luchita Hurtado Jeff Koons § Arnold Gingrich Memorial Award μ Kitty Carlisle Hart Award Sol LeWitt * Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy in the Arts Kerry James Marshall ** Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts ∞ Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award Julie Mehretu ^ Ted Arison Young Artist Award Robert Rauschenberg + Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award Kelly Richardson ~ Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award .