The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is an unrestricted prize of $75,000 given annually to risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.
Vijay Iyer (AAIA '03) writes about music and cities, the creativity in chaos, wading into the 'froth of culture,' and Butch Morris (AAIA '06)