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  • September 2008
    • Scientists, Artists Dominate MacArthur 'Genius' Grants

      Scientists, Artists Dominate MacArthur 'Genius' Grants

      (Newser) - Of the 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius award," 13 are scientists and eight are artists, the New York Times reports. This year, they are “people working on the very edge of discovery and people at the edge of a new synthesis,” says the foundation’s president.  Among the winners: Tara Donovan, sculptor of drinking straws and paper clips Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist More »

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      innovation   artist   New Yorker magazine   scientist   MacArthur genius   MacArthur Foundation

  • February 2008
    • Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

      Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

      (Newser) - American artist Kara Walker stirs up “a toxic stew of race, sex, power and history” with her work—now enjoying a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York—exploding antebellum stereotypes about black bodies, Rosalind Cumming-Yeates writes in Ebony . The youngest artist ever to receive a Macarthur “genius” grant (at 27), Walker uses the period technique of silhouettes to trace slavery’s horrors. More »

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      art   race relations   slavery   Whitney Museum   MacArthur genius

  • September 2007
    • MacArthur Picks New $500K 'Geniuses'

      MacArthur Picks New $500K 'Geniuses'

      (Newser) - "Master vocalist" Dawn Upshaw is among 24 "geniuses"  awarded half a million bucks by the MacArthur Foundation today. Back from a break to treat her breast cancer, Upshaw says she hopes that "a lot of amazing music comes from it. Maybe new pieces with young singers." Other so-called "Genius Grant" recipients include a playwright, a geographer and an installation artist. More »

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      MacArthur genius   MacArthur Foundation   MacArthur Grant

  • August 2007
    • Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

      Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

      (Newser) - Elizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year. More »

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      obituary   art   death   lung cancer   artist   MacArthur genius   MoMA   painter   Museum of Modern Art

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