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...America is like my distant uncle who doesn't remember my name but occasionally gives me pocket money.' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, Nigerian writer, on receiving a $500,000 "genius award" from the MacArthur Foundation...
...Producer of Genius...
Allen and Scorsese have their Oscars. Lee has never been nominated for Best Director. Granted, he's not quite in their league, though he loves zippy tracking shots as much as Scorsese, and the New York Knicks as much as Allen. But Lee is a producer of genius, and not just in his self-marketing - which, don't knock it, is a boon to someone who's essentially an independent auteur. He chooses provocative projects, gets big stars when he needs them, makes vigorous, good-looking films and does it on half a Hollywood budget...
...abstraction, where “blob” comes to mind quicker than “art,” Wein’s work underwhelms. It is really only when Wein is able to soften brute force and add definition to the abstract that the beauty of his genius is unmistakably evident. With “Man with Plow,” Wein simplifies, so that the man in the sculpture lacks incredible muscularity, and instead exudes a rustic, humanistic charm. With downcast eyes, the man and his plow seem almost coy. This same coyness is paired with broad...
...representative from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation then told her that she was one of this year’s recipients of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—the ‘genius grants’ that give recipients $500,000 over a five-year period with “no strings attached...