Guggenheim fellows for 2008

Art in America, June-July, 2008

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently awarded its fellowships, totaling $8.2 million, to 190 artists, scientists and scholars in the U.S. and Canada. Artist recipients are: Shimon Attie, Erika Blumenfeld, Robert Feintuch, Joe Fyfe, Phoebe Gloeckner, Sue Hettmansperger, Sedrick Ervin Huckaby, James Hyde, Martin Kersels, Simon Leung, Pam Lins, Anthony McCall, Rebecca Morris, Ruben Ochoa, Andrew Stein Raftery, Enrico Riley, Lisa Sanditz, Sigrid Sandstrom, Jeffrey Schiff, Christian Tomaszewski, Marc Trujillo and Rachel P. Youens. Winners in photography are: Michael P. Berman, Elijah Gowin, Builder Levy, Fredrik Marsh, Greg Miller, Ardine Nelson and David J. Taylor. Among the scholars receiving fellowships are Bard College professor Michael Brenson, for a biography of David Smith; University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Leja, for research on 19th-century photography; and Wake Forest history professor Sarah Watts, for a book on the political satires of Lyonel Feininger.

--"Artworld" is compiled by Stephanie Cash and David Ebony