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Brendan Gill Prize
Created in 1987, the prize honors Brendan Gill, long-time MAS trustee, renowned New Yorker theater critic, author, and architectural preservationist. The cash prize, funded by a permanent endowment, is awarded annually to the creator of a work of art, book, sculpture, film, musical composition, or architectural design, accomplished the previous year, that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City. The 2007 prize was presented to actor, playwright and poet, Sarah Jones (pictured) for her one-woman show, “Bridge & Tunnel.” Her play, an exultant celebration of the city’s diversity with all its idiosyncrasies, conflicts and humor, is spoken though the voices of fourteen immigrant characters all vividly portrayed by Ms. Jones.
Brendan Gill Prize News
- Sufjan Stevens Awarded the 2008 Brendan Gill Prize for The BQE - Last Saturday, at an award reception at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens received the 2008 Brendan Gill Prize from MAS for his multimedia musical composition The BQE. Mr. Stevens’ “symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City’s infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway” was selected by the Brendan Gill jury for “capturing the energy, [...]
- MAS Members Invited to Meet Sufjan Stevens on Saturday Night - Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens will receive the Municipal Art Society’s 2008 Brendan Gill Prize this Saturday, September 27, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for his multi-media musical composition, The BQE. His “symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City’s infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway” was selected by the Brendan Gill jury for “capturing the energy, vigor, and [...]
- Sufjan Stevens Awarded Brendan Gill Prize, Calatrava’s Vision for New Penn Station - MAS is awarding this year’s Brendan Gill prize to Sufjan Stevens for his acclaimed composition BQE (AsthmaticKitty). The Gill prize was created by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in honor of Brendan Gill and is awarded annually to a creator of a work of art, book, sculpture, film, musical composition, or architectural design, accomplished the previous year, [...]
- 2008 Brendan Gill Prize: Call for Nominations - We invite MAS members to submit nominations for the 2008 Brendan Gill Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the creator of a specific work — a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, architectural design, film or choreographic work — completed in the previous year that best captures the spirit and energy of New [...]
- Brendan Gill Prize Celebrates Diversity - The 2007 Brendan Gill Prize was awarded on Monday evening, December 3, to actor, playwright and poet Sarah Jones, for her Tony-award winning one-woman show “Bridge & Tunnel.” The newly built Diker Pavilion in the National Museum of the American Indian, a transformed landmark — formerly the U.S. Custom House built by the legendary Beaux-Arts [...]
- The Brendan Gill Prize 2007 - Monday, December 3, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., at the National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green, New York MAP The Board of Directors of the Municipal Art Society will award the 2007 Brendan Gill Prize to actor, playwright and poet Sarah Jones for “Bridge & Tunnel” her off-Broadway 2004 - Broadway 2006 one-woman show, [...]
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude Honored - The 2006 Brendan Gill Prize has honored Christo and Jeanne-Claude for The Gates — the first grand scale public art project of the 21st century, a one-time exhibition that inspired New Yorkers and the rest of the world to exultation and goodwill. For sixteen shining days, February 12-28, 2005, the billowing saffron of The Gates [...]