THIS WEEK IN BRILLIANT CAREERS
By Steve Burgess
Is the bull-goose legend of underground comix the Brueghel of our time or the purveyor of an arrested juvenile vision?
An R. Crumb gallery A selection of drawings by Robert Crumb.
RECENTLY IN BRILLIANT CAREERS
By Charles Taylor
He's the world's greatest wrap star; his grand and beautiful public projects transcend the barriers between life and art.
Portfolio Photographs of Cristo and Jeanne-Claude's work.
By William Speed Weed
Disregarding our illusory firewalls of thought, he boldly goes where no science writer has gone before.
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By Kevin Conley
His wry, wildly popular photography owes a great debt to the gifted performance artists he works with.
Get a glimpse of Wegman's wacky work in our latest RealPlayer slideshow. RealVideo
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By Steve Burgess
With his globally recognized "Peanuts" characters, he delved into the psyche of children and created daily morality plays that became part of the public consciousness.
Revisit "Peanuts" one last time in our commemorative slideshow. RealVideo
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BRILLIANT CAREERS EVENT
Experience the Brilliant Careers event held on October 21, l999 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Moderated by a very entertaining Michael Feldman of the PRI program "Whad'ya Know?", the salon included the following panelists: noted chef Alice Waters, author and Republican pundit Arianna Huffington, essayist and social critic Stanley Crouch, photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark, and midwife and author Ina May Gaskin.
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WINNERS' CIRCLE: BRILLIANT CAREERS ESSAY CONTEST
Salon.com and Lexus are proud to
announce the winner of the Brilliant Careers Essay contest. Readers were asked to write an original essay answering the question: "Who do you think has had a
Brilliant Career?" Our editors read all of the entries (phew!), and selected Ernest McLeod of Middlebury, Vermont as the grand prize winner.
Ernest won a trip for two to San Francisco to attend the Brilliant Careers event, and a $500 cash prize. Check out Ernest's profile of Emmylou Harris as an original "Brilliant Career" article!
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