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The Aristos Awards
Individuals whose names are marked with an asterisk [*] were cited in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000). Unless otherwise indicated, all entries dated on or before October 2, 2005, were originally posted in the January 2006 issue of Aristos.
June 2008. New award winners (marked) have been added for the following years: 2008, 2007, and 2006.
2008Charles Lane
2007
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Jon Carroll
Rupert Christiansen (Music Critic, London Telegraph)
Jeff Jacoby
Heather Mac Donald (Contributing Editor, City Journal; Fellow, the Manhattan Institute)2006
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Giles Auty2005
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Victoria Dailey (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Jennie Farrell (Wantagh, N. Y.)
Kaley Holmboe (sixteen-year-old student, London)
Joshua Kosman (Music Critic, San Francisco Chronicle)
National Review
New York Daily News
Henry J. Stern (Director, New York Civic; former Commissioner of Parks, New York City2004
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Alicia Colon (Columnist, New York Sun)
Alfred N. Garwood (Vail, Ariz.)
Bernard Holland (Music Critic, New York Times)
Henry J. Stern (Director, New York Civic; former Commissioner of Parks, New York City2003
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Alicia Colon (Columnist, New York Sun)
Bernard Holland (Music Critic, New York Times)
Edward J. Ross (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.)
Julian Spalding (Former Director, the Glasgow [Scotland] Museums)2002
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Heather Mac Donald (Contributing Editor, City Journal; Fellow, the Manhattan Institute)
George Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)2001
Linda Chavez (Columnist)
John Leo (Columnist and Contributing Editor, U. S. News & World Report)
George Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)
George Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)2000
David L. Cowen (Monroe Township, N.J.)
John Zeaman (Art Critic, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)1999
Theodore Dalrymple (Contributing Editor, City Journal)
1998
* William Rusher (Columnist; Distinguished Fellow, the Claremont Institute)
1997
* Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
* Morley Safer (News Correspondent, CBS)1996
* Charles Spencer (Theater Critic, Daily Telegraph (London)
1995
Lynne Cheney (Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute)
* Jeff Jacoby (Columnist, Boston Globe)
* John Leo (Columnist and Contributing Editor, U. S. News & World Report)
* R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Founder and Editor in Chief, The American Spectator)1994
* Lisa Albert (Television Writer)
* Arlene Croce (Dance Critic)
* George Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)1993
* Morley Safer (News Correspondent, CBS)
1992
* David Halle (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
* Bill Watterson (Cartoonist)1991
* Alec Sologob (Guard, Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
* John Tierney (Metro Reporter, New York Times)1990
* Irving Kristol (Founder and Co-Editor, The Public Interest)
1988
Robert Patrick (Playwright)
Donal Henahan (Music Critic, New York Times)1985
Richard Lack (Painter, Teacher, Author)
1980
Kenneth M. Lansing (Professor of Art and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
1978
* Jacques Barzun (Cultural Historian)
1975
* Tom Wolfe (Author)
1969
Richard Lack (Painter, Teacher, Author)
1959
John Canaday (Critic and Art Historian)
1961
Roger Burlingame (Editor, Historian, Novelist: 1889-1967)
1946
R. H. Ives Gammell (Painter, Teacher, Author: 1893-1981)
1912
* Kenyon Cox (Painter, Critic: 1856-1919)
* Cited in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000).
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