National Arts Journalism Program
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New York, NY 10027
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December 14
Study Tour

Attend taping of “The David Letterman Show.”

December 8
Seminar
Lewis Lapham, editor, Harper’s
December 7
Panel
Patricia Bosworth on Brando, with Ann Douglas
December 1
Study Tour
Visit to New Dramatists and lunch with Todd London, artistic director, and playwrights of New Dramatists
November 19
Study Tour

Tour Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio of Columbia University SOA Visual Arts chair Jon Kessler
November 17
Seminar
Ralph Lemon, dancer and choreographer
November 10
Seminar
2000 Marian Godfrey, director, culture program, The Pew Charitable Trusts
November 8
Study Tour
Visit the Brooklyn Museum of Art for a tour of the “Hip Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage” exhibit.
November
Panel
Shamanism and Globalization
October 27
Seminar
Documentary filmmakers David Grubin, Joshua Seftel and Peter Davis
October 26
Study Tour
Attend performance of Ralph Lemon’s “The Tree” at Brooklyn Academy of Music
October 22
Study Tour
Fellows join faculty and students from the Columbia University SOA on a trip to Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY
October 22
Study Tour
Attend Greig Society musical program at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
October 20
Study Tour
Attend performance by Gideon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica at Carnegie Hall
October 20
Seminar
Linda Winer, theater critic, Newsday and Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, illustrator, author, playwright and NAJP senior fellow ‘98
October 17
Study Tour
Attend Metropolitan Opera performance of “Fidelio”
October 13-14
News
Andras Szanto attends Social Theory, Politics and Arts in Washington, D.C. with NAJP Fellow Adam Langer and Andrew Tyndall to give a presentation on Reporting the Arts.
October 13
Seminar
Ken Wells, author and Wall Street Journal editor
October 8
Study Tour
Trip to NYC nightclub Vinyl for dancing to Body&Soul
October 6
Seminar
Charles Michener, senior editor, The New Yorker
October 5
Study Tour
Attend War of the Worlds at Brooklyn Academy of Music
September 29
Seminar
Visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art for “Art and Empire” exhibit
September 15
Seminar
Screening of film “Girl Fight” and discussion session with students of SOA

June 15
Conference

Convergence: New Opportunities for Arts Journalism
May 12
Seminar
They Might Be Giants, rock group
April 24
Panel
The Little Magazine in the Age of Massive Media
With Dave Eggers, editor, McSweeney’s, and author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Tom Frank, editor, The Baffler, and author, The Conquest of Cool; Rebecca Wolff, editor, Fence; and moderated by Daniel Pinchbeck, editor, Open City, and NAJP Fellow.

April 21
Seminar
“Dame Edna” actor Barry Humphries
April 14
Seminar
David Denby, film critic, The New Yorker, and Jim Taylor, screenwriter
April 7
Seminar
Adrienne Brodeur, Zoetrope, and Betsy Sussler, editor-in-chief, BOMB
March 31
Seminar
Philippe de Montebello, director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 27
Panel
Beauty & Politics: A Lecture by Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University and art critic for The Nation.
March 24
Seminar
Judy Collins, singer
March 10
Seminar

Hilton Als, writer, The New Yorker
March 6
Panel
The Big Buildup: The Role of the Arts in Urban Re-development, March 6
With Diane Dalto, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts and Culture; Kelley Lindquist, executive director, Artspace Projects, Inc.; Richard Pilbrow, TONY-nominated lighting designer and chairman, Theatre Projects Consultants, Inc.; Sharon Zukin, author, The Culture of Cities; and moderated by John Habich, fine arts editor, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and Jerome Weeks, book columnist, Dallas Morning News.
March 3
Seminar

John Bennett, senior editor and Nancy Franklin, TV and theater critic, The New Yorker
February 25
Seminar
John Harbison, composer
February 17-21
Study Tour

NAJP Fellows travel to Cuba
February 11
Seminar
Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 4
Seminar
Eamon Dolan, editor, Houghton Mifflin and Hilary Liftin, Barnes & Noble
January 21
Seminar

Frank Rich, theater critic, New York Times

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