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...sentiment at the heart of "Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons," the career-spanning survey that runs at London's Tate Modern through Sept. 14, it's not the kind limned in gentle twilight. The best pictures and sculptures in this confounding, mostly captivating show - which moves later to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and from there to Rome - are as tough-minded as any art of the last half-century...
...profile choices of the past, such as W.S. Merwin and Robert Pinsky, she is in fact a well-established poet. It took 10 years for her to get her poems published in "good literary magazines," she recalls, but she has since won nearly every prestigious poetry award, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which carries a $100,000 purse, both in 2004. She has kept herself at a remove from the poetry community and has happily taught remedial English at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., for nearly 30 years...
...dozen books and two Guggenheim fellowships later, Kozol continues his advocacy for better public school systems and funding. A vocal critic of the No Child Left Behind Act, Kozol said he has spent recent months working with the staff of Senator Barack Obama on policy briefs. And last year, Kozol founded the Cambridge Institute for Public Education to prevent the drain of qualified teachers from public schools...
...Bars (Black’s Reconstruction).” But the only quotables come from the album’s plethora of guest artists, which includes Dice Raw (“Built like a tank, smokin’ on dank / Walkin’ through the Guggenheim, raw life black ink”) and the seething Saigon, who—incredibly—still has yet to release his long-delayed debut. The point here is the politics. Black Thought devotes attention to both inner-city and environmental problems, and he’s certainly politically aware (the patronizing...
John G. Ruggie, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his research on transnational human rights standards. Ruggie is one of 190 fellows selected this year to receive a portion of the $8.2 million in fellowship grants, an average of $40,000 for each fellow. Ruggie will be using his funding to take a sabbatical from teaching beginning on July 1 to conduct research and interviews for his upcoming book. “I plan to write a book...