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Arts writer Jessica Baran. For Jessica Baran, the fifth time was the charm. After applications spanning a decade, the St. Louis-based art critic was earlier this year awarded an Andy Warhol arts writers grant. The $30,000 earmark is meant to subsidize Baran’s ongoing “critical engagement with art, artists and exhibitions” in the Midwest. Her selection after all those years, she said on St. Louis on the Air, feels less like a breakthrough in her writing and more about resumed national interest in the realities of the Midwest. She sees George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis earlier this year as bringing renewed attention to the kind of Midwestern experience first brought into broader focus after Michael Brown’s death in 2014. ....