NAJP

Presentation by Hilton Als, NAJP senior fellow and writer, The New Yorker, with Deborah Treisman, editor, The New Yorker, and David Denby, film critic, The New Yorker

Tour of renovated New York Public Library for the Performing Arts with collection curators and executive director Jackie Davis

Hollywood, D.C.: Symbiotic Relationship Between Movie and Politics (co-sponsored with the Center for Communication)
Panel of Chris Matthews, Peter Riegert and Ken Bowser.

November 30
Study Tour

Attend Pauline Kael memorial at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center

Doug McLennan, NAJP fellow ’97 and founder, artsjournal.com

Tour of Whitney Museum of American Art and lunch with director, Maxwell Anderson

John Rando, director of “Urinetown”

November 3
Study Tour

Hike on Staten Island with NAJP fellows and SOA students and professors.

Fletcher Roberts, Ann Colson, Elvis Mitchell, A.O. Scott, Anna Kisselhoff and Ben Raitcliff

William Bolcom, composer and Joan Morris, singer

October 24
Study Tour

Attend performance of musical “Urinetown”

Twyla Tharp, choreographer

October 18
Study Tour

Attend performance by the Parsons Dance Company at the Joyce Theatre, followed by dinner with Joyce Theater director Linda Shelton and choreographer David Parsons.

Henry Chalfant, photographer, filmmaker, and author

October 5
Study Tour

Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 3
Study Tour

Attend performance by O Vertigo at the Joyce Theatre

October 29-30
Conference

Wonderful Town: The Future of Theater in New York

September 28
Seminar

Michael Feingold, theater critic The Village Voice and NAJP fellow

September 21
Seminar

Columbia University School of the Arts, Department Chairs

September 14
Seminar

Eve Moros Ortega, producer, “Art 21”/PBS and writer Kay Larson

May 9-10 2001
Conference

Journalists Talk About Transportation: Infrastructure, Land-Use, Policy
Brought together architects, urban designers and architecture critics to discuss urban design.

Criticism and/or Journalism
With Joan Acocella, dance and book critic, The New Yorker; Louis Menand, critic, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center; James Shapiro, theater writer and professor of English, Columbia University; and moderated by Wendy Lesser, editor, The Threepenny Review.

Eve Ensler, playwright, “The Vagina Monologues”

Michael Kimmelman at Miller Theatre: Returning to the Piano
Chief art critic for The New York Times, performs some favorite piano masterpieces and discuss his forthcoming book on his return to playing the piano after 15 years.

Even Until Death: Improvisation. Edging, and Enframemen
A lecture by Dick Hebdige, dean of Critical Studies and director of the Writing Program at California Institute of the Arts.

Attend performance of “Follies” at the Belasco Theatre

Attend Brooklyn Academy of Music for Mark Morris Company dance
Performance and BAMdialogue between senior fellow Wendy Lesser and choreographer Mark Morris.

March 8-11
Study Tour

Fellows travel to Dublin and launch exchange program with the Irish Arts Council.

Backstage tour of Metropolitan Opera House with artistic manager Sarah Billinghurst and meeting with press officers

February 23
Study Tour

Tour of the Apollo Theater, lunch at Bayou, and tour of Studio Museum in Harlem with Thelma Golden

Nan Talese, senior vice president, Doubleday, and publisher and Barry Werth, author

Classical Music in the United States: Its Rise and Fall and What We Can Do About It, a lecture by Joseph Horowitz

February 10
Study Tour

Attend V-Day 2001: “The Vagina Monologues” at Madison Square Garden.

David Shenk, author, The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Portrait of an Epidemic, and Andrew Solomon, author, The Noonday Demon