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Last Chance. TIME art critic Richard Lacayo urges you not to miss the retrospective of sculptor Tara Donovan - recipient of a 2008 MacArthur "genius" grant - at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. She does unexpectedly beautiful things with common objects like plastic soda straws, Styrofoam cups and Scotch tape. Through Jan. 4, 2009. (See TIME's top 10 museum exhibits.) 100 Northern Ave., Boston...
...1920s saw its fair share of scandals and sensationalism. And one thing that this once-predominantly white male arena did not represent was diversity. Accordingly, “The Front Page”—a play written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur that was first produced in 1928—attests to this stereotype, characterizing journalism as an elitist gentlemen’s club. But in BlackCast’s current production of the play—which opened last night and will run through Nov. 15 in the Agassiz Theatre—director...
...don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From...
...great career break - he's awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, giving him a few hundred thousand dollars to pursue his theatrical dreams - will slowly break him over the rest of his long, increasingly demented life. Caden moves to Manhattan, rents a warehouse and in it constructs a smaller version of the city outside. Hiring a huge cast, he sets out to assemble an epic of ordinariness. His second wife, Claire (Michelle Williams), will be the star; the ever-loyal Hazel is his assistant. A stalker named Sammy (Tom Noonan) has got the job of portraying Caden; "I've been following...
...time he returned from his last visit to the country in 1996, the trials had just begun. This work, along with his role in South Africa’s transition towards democracy and other achievements in international law, earned Goldstone, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the MacArthur Award for International Justice yesterday. MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan F. Fanton called Goldstone “one of the giants in helping to build respect for law and international justice.” As part of the award, Goldstone will receive $100,000 and be asked to suggest organizations to which...