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The E-Sylum: Volume 16, Number 29, July 14, 2013, Article 20

2013 NATIONAL MEDALS OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

It's that time of year again. Gar Travis forwarded this article about the awarding of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities. Below is an image of a 2009 medal inscribed to another awardee, also provided by Gar. Thanks! -Editor

President Barack Obama Wednesday honored luminaries of the arts, including Star Wars creator George Lucas, praising his special effects for freeing movies from "planes in space" with visible strings.

Obama presented National Medals of Arts and National Humanities medals to a group also including musician Herb Alpert, rhythm and blues legend Allen Toussaint, author Joan Didion and sportswriter Frank DeFord.

"The arts and the humanities aren't just a source of entertainment, they challenge us to think and to question and to discover, to seek that inward significance -- and that helps us grow and to change and to reach new heights," Obama said at a White House ceremony.

The president went off script when he came to pay tribute to Lucas, praising him for making "it look like those planes in space are actually flying."

2009 National medal of Arts

Those receiving the Medal of Arts included Alpert, philanthropist Lin Arison, dancer Joan Myers Brown, singer Renee Fleming, author Ernest Gaines, painter Ellsworth Kelly, scriptwriter Tony Kushner, Lucas, comedian Elaine May, architect Laurie Olin, Toussaint and the Washington Performing Arts Society.

National Humanities Medal recipients were author Edward Ayers, economist William Bowen, historians Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis, Deford, Didion, political scientist Robert Putnam, writer Marilynne Robinson, poet Kay Ryan, book critic Robert Silvers, actress Anna Deavere Smith and writer-photographer Camilo José Vergara.

To read the complete article, see: May the Medal be with you: Obama honors Lucas (uk.news.yahoo.com/may-medal-obama-honors-lucas-194918222.html#eF6tpAB)

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