During the Rolex Arts Weekend held at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), five new artists were announced for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts initiative
Launched in 2002, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative promotes excellence through the transference of knowledge from one generation of artists to the next. There have been 63 pairs of mentor-protégé since its establishment, with past mentors being filmmaker Zhang Yimou, Broadway playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, and late author Toni Morrison
Under this two-year mentorship programme, younger artists with exceptional promise will have the opportunity to learn from one another in the hopes of invigorating their art.
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Read on to discover who the five new pairs of mentor-protégé, in the fields of architecture, literature, visual arts, music and film, are: