The 2022 awards are going to artists, activists, scholars, scientists and others who have shown “exceptional creativity.” The grants are a bit bigger than before: $800,000 over five years.
Tag: Culture (Arts)
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American Culture Is Trash Culture
Our trash urges gave movies its musk, its fun, its hickies, its exercise. Where did it go?
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Lawsuit Says Charity Leader Hired His Former Personal Trainer for Key Role
Spending by a charity intended to honor a radio pioneer is being challenged by his granddaughter, who says he was tricked into leaving his fortune to it. The charity denies the charge and says the producer did not trust his family to protect his legacy.
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David Geffen Hall Reopens, Hoping Its $550 Million Renovation Worked
The New York Philharmonic’s Lincoln Center home was gutted and rebuilt to try to fix the acoustic woes that have long plagued it. To inaugurate the hall, officials are using a new playbook.
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What Nobel Prize-Winner Annie Ernaux Understands About the Past
Ernaux’s work insists that nothing in life is simple. And it is from that complexity that her work — and, indeed, her very voice — emerges.