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Brodhead is known for his work on 19th century American and English literature. His honors include a Morse Fellowship in 1976-77 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986-87. In 1989 and 1991, he was a visiting lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris...
Rainwater's previous positions include a 1987to 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1983 to 1984German Marshall Fellowship...
Blier has also received a number offellowships, including a Guggenheim and twoFulbrights...
...GREAT UTOPIA: THE Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932," the Guggenheim Museum's huge show of Russian art before, during and immediately after the 1917 Revolution, is meant to be received with extreme piety. These artists, all dead, now have a world audience they could only have dreamed of fitfully when they were alive. We gaze at their frail icons with reverence -- the replays of French Cubism with sturgeons, Cyrillic letters and Tolstoyan beards playing hide-and-seek among their facets; the posters exhorting us to "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"; the constructions of workers' materials like...
This is the Guggenheim's first exhibition after the opening of its disappointing new tower galleries last summer. It is billed as a pioneering effort. This is true only in a bureaucratic sense: access to works in Russian museums has become a good deal easier since the collapse of communism. The organizers' ambition to shake the contents of every provincial museum in Mother Russia into the Guggenheim has produced more footnotes than masterpieces. Much of the best work in it will be familiar to visitors who saw "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930" in Paris in 1979, or any of the exhibitions...