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Twenty-three MacArthur "Genius" Fellows were announced yesterday. Many deserve a closer look, no doubt. But I want to point out three in particular. First, Ethiopian-born novelist Dinaw Mengestu, whose first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, is a simple, devastating story about a refugee in D.C. He owns a corner store. He's the loneliest imaginable character; the whole book is an echo chamber for this one isolated soul. He has two friends from the...

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At first glance, Uta Barth’s photographs may resemble abstract paintings or appear as personal descriptions of her surroundings. In many ways they do possess these qualities, but upon closer examination they inform the viewer of much more. The photographs are Barth’s method of questioning and examining her perception, and how her surroundings may be influenced by her perception. Rather than describing and showing to us recognizable imagery, her work appears to display almost nothing. Barth’s…

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Uta Barth Uta Barth was born in 1958 in Berlin and currently lives and works in LA. Barth has used photography in her own aesthetic way. Such as experimenting with depth of filed, focus on framing to take photographs that are suggestive rather than let viewers know the description of her photos. She usually capture interior setting by using diffuse shot. In her early work, she focused on simply interiors, fashioning images of spaces resonant with emptiness and this theme she is calling as…

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