THE ARTS

Prize Winners: American architect Frank Gehry was named Thursday as one of five winners of this year’s prestigious Japanese Imperial Prize. The other winners, announced at a news conference in Rome, were Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, French painter Pierre Soulages, English sculptor Anthony Caro and Russian-German composer Alfred Schnittke. The winners will receive about $117,500 each at ceremonies this fall in Tokyo. The prize was instituted in 1987 as the equivalent in the art world to the Nobel Prizes for science, literature and peace.