Arts medals run the gamut
Two singers with very different styles -- country star George Jones and Motown legend Smokey Robinson -- were among those honored at the White House Thursday with the National Medal of Arts.
The award, established by Congress in 1984, is given for outstanding contributions to the arts in the United States.
Others receiving the award Thursday were designer and architect Florence Knoll Bassett, choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello, actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen, landscape architect and environmental planner Lawrence Halprin, painter and stage designer Ming Cho Lee and the late caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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