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...annual journalism awards -- for its reporting on the links between the region's crime wave and corruption in the criminal justice system. Coverage of crime poverty, illiteracy and drug abuse dominated the other categories, whose winners were announced this afternoon. Among them: Washington Post writer Leon Dash and photographer Lucian Perkins won the explanatory journalism prize for their book-length profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with poverty. The national reporting award went to Tony Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal for stories about working conditions in low-wage America. The Journal's Ron Suskind...
Most artists, one imagines, dream of achieving a great late style -- the uprush and resolution in old age, careless of aesthetic risk, sometimes even a little mad, that carry a life's effort into profundity. Few, obviously, manage anything of the sort. The retrospective of paintings by Lucian Freud, 71, which opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, sets before...
Freud's last show in America was at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington in 1987. It didn't go to New York. It wasn't modern enough for the Museum of Modern Art; and at the Met there was a suspicion that, as one of its senior staff remarked, "Lucian can be wonderful one picture at a time, but a row of 20 could be a bit of a bore." Happily, the museum has now changed its tune and hung some 80 Freuds, the earliest done in 1945, the latest finished this year...
...Lucian Freud, the best realist painter alive...
...cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be playing nearby. Theater? There's the modern-dance show Griot New York, directed by Jamaican-American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York's Asia Society is holding a show that tours the country next year featuring Asian-American visual artists who emigrated from Vietnam, Thailand and elsewhere in Asia...