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
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Friday, August 14 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, September 7 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, August 14 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 16 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Saturday, August 15 - 7:30am
- Saturday, September 12 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Sunday, August 16 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, August 17 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 27 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 9 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Tuesday, August 18 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 31 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 10 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Wednesday, August 19 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 1 - 5:00pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Thursday, August 20 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 2 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Friday, August 21 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, August 21 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 22 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 23 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Saturday, August 22 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Sunday, August 23 - 7:30am
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Monday, August 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 3 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, August 26 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 8 - 5:00pm
- Friday, September 11 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 12 - 5:30pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Friday, August 28 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, August 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 29 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 30 - 5:30pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Saturday, August 29 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Sunday, August 30 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, September 4 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, September 4 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 5 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 6 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Saturday, September 5 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Sunday, September 6 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, September 11 - 7:30am
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Saturday, August 8 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 10 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 7 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Sunday, August 2 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Saturday, August 1 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 4 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Friday, July 31 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 3 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 13 - 5:00pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, July 26 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, July 25 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, July 24 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Monday, July 20 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 21 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 22 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 23 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 30 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, August 12 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, July 19 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, July 18 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Friday, August 7 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 8 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 5:30pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, July 17 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Friday, July 31 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 1 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 2 - 5:30pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Thursday, July 16 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 11 - 5:00pm
