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QUICK TAKES - April 10, 2009

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Competition officials weren’t planning to announce the winners of the 2009 Albert Award in the Arts until May -- but overeager publicity reps for one lucky artist went e-mail crazy Thursday morning, so the news is out:

An awards spokeswoman confirms that prizes of $75,000 each will go to Paul Chan of Brooklyn, N.Y., for film/video; interdisciplinary artist Rinde Eckert of Nyack, N.Y., for theater; composer-guitarist-violinist John King for music; Paul Pfeiffer of New York for visual arts and choreographer Reggie Wilson of Brooklyn for dance.

Eckert has a California connection: “Slide,” his newest collaboration with Steven Mackey, was co-commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival and will be presented at the fest for the first time on June 12.

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The awards will be presented on May 5 in Los Angeles.

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Diane Haithman

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