Brilliant Careers: Sound and Vision

Brilliant Careers: Sound and Vision

Published December 17, 1999 8:56PM (EST)



THIS WEEK IN BRILLIANT CAREERS


R. Crumb

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.

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Christo

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.


Timothy Ferris

By William Speed Weed

Disregarding our illusory firewalls of thought, he boldly goes where no science writer has gone before.

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William Wegman

By Kevin Conley

His wry, wildly popular photography owes a great debt to the gifted performance artists he works with.

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Charles Schulz

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.

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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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