Arts, humanities winners picked

President Bush on Tuesday announced the National Medal of Arts recipients and National Humanities Medal recipients for 2005. The awards will be presented Thursday in an Oval Office ceremony.

The National Medal of Arts recipients are author Louis Auchincloss, New York; James DePreist, symphony conductor, Portland, Ore.; Paquito D’Rivera, jazz musician, Bergen, N.J.; Robert Duvall, actor; Leonard Garment, arts advocate, New York; Ollie Johnston, pioneer film animator and artist, La Canada; Wynton Marsalis, jazz musician and educator, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Tina Ramirez, dancer-choreographer and founder of Ballet Hispanico, New York; and Dolly Parton, singer and songwriter.

The National Humanities Medal recipients are Walter Berns, historian, Bethesda, Md.; Matthew Bogdanos, a Marine Corps Reserves colonel and an assistant district attorney, New York; Eva Brann, professor, Annapolis, Md.; John Lewis Gaddis, historian, New Haven, Conn.; The Papers of George Washington, Charlottesville, Va.; Mary Ann Glendon, legal scholar, Cambridge, Mass.; Alan Kors, historian, Wallingford, Pa.; Leigh and Leslie Keno, art historians and appraisers, New York; Judith Martin, author and columnist, Washington, D.C.; Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, history patrons, New York and Greenwich, Conn.