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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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MacArthur genius stories: 4 news summaries

Scientists, Artists Dominate MacArthur 'Genius' Grants

25 innovators receive this year's $500 prizes

Sep 23, 08 2:29 PM CDT
(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... More »

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New Yorker magazine • innovation • MacArthur genius • artist • MacArthur Foundation • scientist

Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

Exhibit at the Whitney has 'nightmarish quality'

Feb 3, 08 7:33 PM CST
(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 “... More »

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art • race relations • MacArthur genius • slavery • Kara Walker • Whitney Museum

MacArthur Picks New
$500K 'Geniuses'

Twenty-four creative high-achievers handed $500K

Sep 25, 07 7:30 PM CDT
(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.... More »

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MacArthur genius • MacArthur Foundation • Dawn Upshaw • Lynn Nottage • MacArthur Grant • Genius Grant

Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

Adventurous artist reshaped Modernism

Aug 13, 07 8:59 AM CDT
(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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lung cancer • art • obituary • death • painter • Elizabeth Murray • Museum of Modern Art • neo expressionist • post minimalist • MacArthur genius • MoMA • artist

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