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...Guggenheim grants, some of the most prestigious awards for mid-career scholars, were announced late last week and six Harvard professors as well as several members of the greater Boston community found themselves among the recipients...
...Guggenheim grants provide Fellows with periods of time, from six to 12 months, in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible...
Concluding remarks to McCaffrey's speech were given by the Kennedy School of Government's Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore and Deborah Prothrow-Stith, assistant dean of Government and Community Programs at the School of Public Health...
...show of this and 19 other Beckmann paintings at the downtown branch of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is--no other word for it--a revelation. Beckmann, who died in 1950, was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but he remains comparatively underknown in Manhattan. Thirty-one years have passed since a New York museum devoted a show to his work. Why this should be, one can only guess. Presumably it has something to do with the belief that purely abstract painting was the climax of modernism, so that a painter whose entire sensibility...
This seems likely even though Beckmann himself believed that "every form of significant art from Bellini to Henri Rousseau has ultimately been abstract." But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time. And in the Guggenheim's show one sees the very peak of his work: seven of the nine triptychs (three-panel paintings, based on the format of church altarpieces) that he painted immediately before and during his exile...