This edition: The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
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Original tape date: August 17, 2023. First aired: September 25, 2023.On the season premiere of CUNY Laureates, we begin a new series on MacArthur Fellowship winners from the City University of New York. First, we get a crash course in the MacArthur Foundation’s so-called “Genius Grant”, a no-strings-attached fellowship for academics and creatives across every section of society. Artist Ben Katchor explores the obscure and fleeting corners of New York through the art of the comic strip. And we learn how Ada Louise Huxtable, the first full-time architecture critic at the New York Times, used her writing talent to fight for the soul of our city.
Guest List
Ben Katchor Cartoonist
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Tuesday, April 14 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, April 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, May 7 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Wednesday, April 15 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, April 30 - 5:00pm
- Monday, May 11 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, April 16 - 5:00pm
- Monday, May 4 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, May 12 - 5:00pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, April 17 - 7:30am
- Friday, April 24 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, April 25 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, April 26 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 2 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, April 17 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, April 18 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, April 19 - 5:30pm
- Friday, May 1 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Saturday, April 18 - 7:30am
- Friday, May 1 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 2 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 3 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Sunday, April 19 - 7:30am
- Friday, May 8 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 9 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 10 - 5:30pm
- TBA
- Monday, April 20 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, April 21 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, April 22 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, April 23 - 5:00pm
- Monday, April 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, May 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 13 - 5:00pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, April 24 - 7:30am
- Saturday, May 9 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, April 25 - 7:30am
- Sunday, May 10 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, April 26 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, April 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 6 - 5:00pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Saturday, March 28 - 7:30am
- Sunday, March 29 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, April 12 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, March 27 - 7:30am
- Saturday, March 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, April 11 - 7:30am
- Sunday, April 12 - 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Sunday, March 22 - 7:30am
- Friday, March 27 - 5:30pm
- Friday, April 10 - 7:30am
- Saturday, April 11 - 5:30pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Saturday, March 21 - 7:30am
- Sunday, March 22 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, April 5 - 7:30am
- Friday, April 10 - 5:30pm
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, March 20 - 7:30am
- Saturday, March 21 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, April 4 - 7:30am
- Sunday, April 5 - 5:30pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Thursday, March 19 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 30 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, April 7 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, March 18 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 26 - 5:00pm
- Monday, April 6 - 5:00pm
- Monday, April 13 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Tuesday, March 17 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 23 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 31 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, April 2 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, April 8 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Monday, March 16 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 24 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, April 1 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, April 9 - 5:00pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Sunday, March 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, March 29 - 7:30am
- Friday, April 3 - 5:30pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, March 15 - 7:30am
- Friday, March 20 - 5:30pm
- Friday, April 3 - 7:30am
- Saturday, April 4 - 5:30pm
