This edition: Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
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Original tape date: December 29, 2025. First aired: January 19, 2026.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three Guggenheim Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. City College graduate and longtime professor Frederic Tuten uses written language and painting to achieve perfect form. Brooklyn College alum Roya Hakakian fled Iran as a teenager and uses her career in journalism to confront what it has become. And Hunter College graduate Frances Barth has been practicing art for over 55 years, creating original work as part of the 1960s vanguard of New York art.
Guest List
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Sunday, May 17 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 24 - 7:30am
- Friday, June 12 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, May 18 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, May 26 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Tuesday, May 19 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 27 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Wednesday, May 20 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, May 23 - 7:30am
- Thursday, May 28 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, June 7 - 7:30am
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Thursday, May 21 - 5:00pm
- Monday, May 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, June 1 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, June 2 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, June 3 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, June 4 - 5:00pm
- Monday, June 15 - 5:00pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, May 22 - 7:30am
- Saturday, June 6 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, May 22 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 23 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 24 - 5:30pm
- Friday, May 29 - 7:30am
- Saturday, June 13 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, May 29 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 30 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 31 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 14 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Sunday, May 31 - 7:30am
- Friday, June 5 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, June 6 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 7 - 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, June 5 - 7:30am
- Friday, June 12 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, June 13 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 14 - 5:30pm
- TBA
- Monday, June 8 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, June 9 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, June 10 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, June 11 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Thursday, April 30 - 5:00pm
- Monday, May 11 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, April 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, May 7 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, April 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 6 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, May 14 - 5:00pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, April 26 - 7:30am
- Friday, May 15 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, April 25 - 7:30am
- Sunday, May 10 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, April 24 - 7:30am
- Saturday, May 9 - 7:30am
- Friday, May 15 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 16 - 5:30pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Thursday, April 23 - 5:00pm
- Monday, April 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, May 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 13 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Sunday, April 19 - 7:30am
- Monday, May 4 - 5:00pm
- Friday, May 8 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 9 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, May 10 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, May 12 - 5:00pm
- 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
- 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
- Saturday, May 16 - 7:30am
- 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
- Sunday, May 17 - 7:30am
