Local Geniuses Win MacArthur Grants

The winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants have been announced, and there’s a couple Angelenos in the mix. Collage artist Mark Bradford and USC law professor Elyn Saks will be among the 24 winners to each receive a $500,000 prize. LA Times has more on these local honorees:

Times art critic Christopher Knight said in an interview Monday: “Bradford has developed a marvelous method that fuses collage, which sticks together fragments of found images and signs, and decollage — its opposite — which tears images and signs asunder.

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