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Brendan Gill Prize

Commissioner of NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Adrian Benepe, Gill Prize Recipient Michael Van Valkenburgh, Chairman of the Gill Prize Jury Randy Bourscheidt, & MAS President Vin Cipolla
Commissioner of NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Adrian Benepe, Brendan Gill Prize Recipient Michael Van Valkenburgh, Chairman of the Gill Prize Jury Randy Bourscheidt, & MAS President Vin Cipolla at the ceremony held on January 31, 2011.

We invite MAS members and friends to submit nominations for the 2011 Brendan Gill Prize. The prize, endowed to permit a cash award, is given annually to the creator of a specific work– a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, architectural design, film or choreographic work –completed in 2011 that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City.  The award is not intended to honor a lifetime achievement. Please submit entries to MAS by November 23, 2011, through email to pcohen@mas.org. If preferred, hard copies with background material can be mailed to MAS, 111 West 57th Street, New York, NY, 10019, attention Phyllis Cohen. Thank you very much for sharing your suggestions with us. For more information, please call 212.935.3960, ext. 1224.

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.

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Past Winners of the Brendan Gill Prize

2010
Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect, Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park

2009
Mike and Doug Starn, artists See it change, see it split

2008
Sufjan Stevens, musician, The BQE

2007
Sarah Jones, actress and playwright, Bridge & Tunnel

2006

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists, The Gates, Central Park

2005
Yoshio Taniguchi, architect, The new Museum of Modern Art

2004
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author, Random Family
Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, authors, Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America

2003
The creative team that conceptualized the Tribute in Light memorial

2002
Tod Williams & Billie Tsien, architects, American Folk Art Museum
Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan & Charles Traub, creators, Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs

2001
Christopher Wheeldon, choreographer, Mercurial Manoeuvres
*MTA Arts for Transit, mosaic, For Want of a Nail, West 81st Street station

2000
Maureen Hackett, landscape designer, Redesign of Herald and Greeley Square Parks
*Allison Prete, filmmaker, Lavender Lake: Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal
*John Kuo Wei Tchen, author, New York Before Chinatown

1999
Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace, authors, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

1998
Frederick Fisher, architect, Remodeling of P.S. 1
*Susan Tunick & Peter Mauss, authors, Terra-Cotta Skyline
*Milo Mottola, artist, Riverbank State Park Carousel
*Phillip Lopate, author, Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

1997
George C. Wolfe, director, Savion Glover, choreographer, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk

1996
Hugh Hardy, architect, Restoration of The New Victory Theater

1995
Louis Malle, screen director, André Gregory, stage director, Vanya on 42nd Street

1994
Ang Lee, director, The Wedding Banquet

1993
Joseph Mitchell, author, Up in the Old Hotel

1992
John Yau & Bill Barrette, authors, Big City Primer: Reading New York at the End of the Twentieth Century

1991
David Hammons, sculptor, High Falutin’

1990
Gran Fury, AIDS activist collective, Bus poster, Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do

1988
Rudolph Burckhardt, filmmaker, MoMA retrospective on his films

1989
Kevin Roche, architect, Redesign of Central Park Zoo

* Denotes Honorable Mention