Program Highlights:
- Exploring New York City’s borough-wide arts scene, from underground performance spaces to museums and cultural festivals
- Internships at major media outlets. Arts and Culture students have interned at ABC News Nightline, ARTnews, Bust, CNN, College Music Journal, ESPN Publishing, Essence, Glamour, The International Herald Tribune, The L Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Manhattan Media, Marie Claire.com, NBC Integrated Local, NBC News, The New York Daily News, The New Haven Independent, NY-1, The New York Times, Parents, Parenting, PC World, People.com, Salon.com, Saveur, SI.com, Style.com, Time Out New York, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Variety, and WNYC among other stations, websites, and publications.
- Guest speakers, from writers and editors to curators and producers
You Will Learn How To:
- Research and report on commercial, legal, and political issues that affect the arts
- Develop your own voice as a critic by writing reviews and critical essays for a generalist audience
- Explore, along with traditional arts, the culture of advertising, food, fashion, and web and industrial design
- Formulate critical standards for emerging forms such as graphic novels and short form internet videos
- Track and analyze local and global trends
- Use databases to research public and private funding of the arts
- Understand the basics of copyright law
- Find outlets for your writing, compose effective query letters, and place your work
- Kate Betts, fashion journalist; former editor, Harper’s Bazaar
- Valerie Block, assistant managing editor (arts), Crain’s
- Robert Boynton, author of The New New Journalism
- Doug Brod, editor-in-chief, Spin
- Lane Brown, editor at Vulture.com
- Jess Cagle, managing editor, Entertainment Weekly
- Lauren Collins, staff writer and deputy Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker
- Elysa Gardner, pop music and theater critic, USA Today
- George Gittoes, artist, filmmaker (by Skype, from Kabul)
- Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem
- Owen Gleiberman, film critic, Entertainment Weekly
- Adam Gopnik, author, staff writer, The New Yorker
- Brian Hiatt, senior writer, Rolling Stone
- Chuck Klosterman, essayist, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
- Rob Levine, former editor, Billboard
- Alan Light, author of The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys
- Laura Miller, book critic, Salon.com
- Troy Patterson, critic, Slate, NPR
- Ann Powers, music critic, The L.A. Times
- Dan Saltzstein, editor in the Travel section of The New York Times; former online arts and styles editor
- Kelefa Sanneh, staff writer (culture), The New Yorker
- Rob Sharenow, senior vice president of programming, A&E Television Networks
- Danyel Smith, editor, Billboard; former editor-in-chief, Vibe
- Toure, host, Fuse TV, contributor, MSNBC
- Calvin Trillin, author, essayist, The Nation, New Yorker
- Josh Tyrangiel, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg BusinessWeek; former editor-in-chief, Time.com
- Sam Tanenhaus, editor, The New York Times Book Review
- Brendan Vaughan, articles editor, GQ; former senior editor, Portfolio
