By: Joshua Glenn

The Dalai Lama is irrationally compassion­ate.

By: Patrick Cates

Rather than express pain with paint, he invited pain by painting.

By: Brian Berger

For the 4th: 20th-century America’s pre-eminent gangster capitalist.

By: Amanda French

Before we blamed our madness on nature, we drove each other crazy.

By: Joshua Glenn

He searched far and wide for dialectical synthesis, only to reject it.

By: Joshua Glenn

Spaced out, but with the wink of awareness.

By: Matthew Battles

Her advocacy of the voiceless is spirited and quixotic.

By: Matthew Battles

To abandon Earth’s succor for the theatre of the clouds.

By: Joshua Glenn

He was the Modernists’ modernist.

By: Brian Berger

A composer who revels in a stern individuality.

By: Alexis Madrigal

He unleashed a game as creative as it was retrograde.

By: Patrick Cates

He is the prophet of the service industry age.

By: Ingrid Schorr

To think, to heal, and to write.

By: David Smay

Beneath the flash and fun, a slick of moral quandaries.

By: Joshua Glenn

“Everybody rappin’ but they don’t know how./You shoulda seen the boy rappin’ to the cow.”