Ann Powers of The New York Times said the show was "dazzling" and commented that the performance did not suffer from music being its least important element, adding "This dream extravaganza perhaps unwittingly suggested that the Britney we know is herself a dream, an artist whose genius is not for singing but for teasing out the cravings and fears that haunt the modern world.
Here, it could again learn something from the High Line, part of whose genius is in the simplicity of its detail.
They look at Messi, and they see the middle-class boy from Rosario with his neat hair whose genius is somehow cerebral and unflustered.
Standing somewhere between history and myth, Gauguin persists as an evergreen contemporary: the artist as narcissist and provocateur, whose genius is inextricable from his posturing.
Turing, whose genius is attributed to significantly shortening the length of WWII, helped save thousands of lives after discovering the algorithm to break the Nazi's code.
For certain film scholars however, Ferrara is a kind of Van Gogh, a truly visionary artist whose genius is destined to be ignored in his own lifetime.
Mesoamerica was home to advanced cultures like the Olmec, the Maya, the Toltec and the Aztec, whose genius is apparent even in their small ceramics.
And here is the summer reading list provided by George Saunders, whose genius is impossible to overstate and whose name popped up on our own great-fiction list just a couple weeks ago.
Should the artist in question go one further and kill themselves then, more often than not, they are instantly re-cast in the collective memory as a tragic figure whose genius is apparently measured by the drama of their passing.
There is an authenticity to Ms. Curry that sets her apart from Ms. Vieira and especially Ms. Couric, whose genius is for projecting authenticity as part of an artfully constructed, for the most part uncrackable persona.
