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IDA APPLEBROOG

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Baby, baby, suck your thumb, 1994 Oil on canvas (5 panels)

I'm rubber, you're glue, 1993 Oil and resin on canvas,

Monalisa, 2009 Mixed media on gampi

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Cecile McLorin Salvant: Not Standing Still After Her McArthur Grant

Cecile McLorin Salvant, winner of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, is relatively clear-eyed in this Chicago Tribune interview with Howard Reich about her future. She has aspirations and projects in mind, like an animation project, but she gives voice here to her understanding that the MacArthur grant is not principally about celebrating her past, but about unlocking her potential. What lies ahead for her could be intriguing.

-Nick Moy

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Annie Dorsen, known for "Passing Strange," has since focused on the intersection of theater and technology — and earned a MacArthur Fellowship for it.

In 2013 Dorsen went to the next level with “A Piece of Work,” in which she took on “Hamlet.” The formidable play was broken down and rebuilt using computer technology. Sometimes the play was compressed, other times individual lines found themselves in wild new contexts. Only the third act was performed by a human, who spoke lines created by the machines.

A Piece of Work video excerpt.

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Walk into the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. right now and you will find a painting that has been ripped to shreds.

Another one, nearby, hangs half-loose from its stretcher, rumpled. It's a portrait of Thomas Jefferson; behind it, you glimpse a seated black woman.

They are works by the artist Titus Kaphar. He takes familiar images and remakes them. Maybe he pulls a hidden figure to the front.

His work often confronts the history of slavery and racism in the United States.

"If we are not honest about our past, then we cannot have a clear direction towards our future," Kaphar says in an interview.

As of today, Kaphar's work has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship — the "genius" grants which come with a $625,000 unrestricted award (paid over five years). The phone call informing him of the fellowship came at his total surprise.

"The truth of the matter is: I did not believe the person on the other end," Kaphar says. "And in fact, I said, 'Stop it, who is this?' But no, they reassured me that in fact it was real."

Meet The MacArthur Fellow Disrupting Racism In Art

Photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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