The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center is proud to announce that Donald Kuspit, author, art critic and distinguished professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, has been selected as the 2008 recipient of its annual Award for Excellence in the Arts. Kupsit, long an insightful critic of postmodernism, has become a champion of the return to beauty, craftsmanship and humanistic values in the arts. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner magazines, the editor of Art Criticism and the editor of a series on American Art and Art Criticism for Cambridge University Press. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983), given by the College Art Association, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to Visual Arts from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in 1997 and has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. He is editorial advisor for European art 1900–50 for the new Encyclopedia Britannica (16th edition) and contributed the entry on Art Criticism. Kuspit has written more than twenty books, including Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (2000), Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996), The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century (2000), Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art (2000) and The End of Art (2004), as well as numerous articles and three books of poetry.