ON SUSTAINABILITY:
A CONVERSATION WITH THE NEW YORKER
With Michael Specter, Dan Barber, Carol Browner, and Daniel Yergin
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, Washington, DC
The New Yorker joined with the New America Foundation in a special BMW-sponsored event on sustainable development. New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter moderated a high-profile panel, featuring: Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Farms and a two-time winner of the James Beard Award; Carol Browner, President Obama's Director of the Office of Energy and Cimate Change Policy and President Clinton's Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Prize" and more recently "The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World." Click here to see the full discussion.
Recent Events
THE ART OF THE NEW YORKER AT THE FIAT GALLERY
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 New York, NY
When it comes to cars and cartoons, a few expressive and well-placed lines can tell a whole story. On a cool, clear evening in SoHo, two of The New Yorker’s most iconic hallmarks—its cartoons and covers—came together in a one-of-a-kind collaboration of creativity, heritage, and design exclusively with FIAT. With vehicles on display throughout the gallery space, guests were encouraged to celebrate the vintage and timeless FIAT 500 brand, revisit their favorite New Yorker covers, and watch and interact with New Yorker cartoonists as they created custom cartoons inspired by the FIAT 500. In addition, each guest enjoyed tasty cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and the music of premiere iPad DJs Andrew Andrew.
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION IN AMERICA
Wednesday, March 23, 2010
Condé Nast Building, New York, NY
The New Yorker Promotions Department, in partnership with University of Phoenix, hosted a panel of distinguished experts to discuss the future of education in America. The panel addressed long-term strategies, innovative solutions, and proven educational methods for empowering the US workforce in the 21st century. The globalized economy has changed the business world dramatically over the past 30 years, and education has struggled to keep pace.
BURBERRY IN-STORE EVENT
Monday, December 13, 2010 New York, NY
The New Yorker secured Zoë Heller, British author of Notes on a Scandal, to perform a reading at the Burberry 57th Street store in New York City. Heller read an excerpt about being in London from her latest book, The Believers. Attendees received autographed copies of The Believers and enjoyed holiday-inspired passed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. Guests shopped the boutique before and after the reading, spending a total of $14,000 on Burberry merchandise.
PASSPORT TO THE ARTS
Saturday, November 13, 2010 New York, NY
Over eight hundred New Yorker cultural enthusiasts participated in a self-guided tour of twenty-eight art galleries in the Chelsea and SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan and received a limited-edition work of art in the form of a “passport” stamped with art replicas at each gallery they visited. The day culminated with a gala cocktail reception and a silent auction, where guests bid on original works of art from emerging and established artists. 2010 marked the sixth year of this annual gallery tour and silent auction, with this year’s charity beneficiary being the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL
Friday – Sunday, October 1-3, 2010 New York, NY
The full spectrum of the magazine came to life at The New Yorker Festival, with events spanning politics, music, literature, humor reviews, business discussions, film premieres, and intimate celebrity interviews. In its eleventh year, the 2010 New Yorker Festival featured forty-six events over three days throughout New York City and was the most successful Festival to date, selling out eighty percent of tickets within the first day of sales. Overall, seventeen thousand passionate New Yorker readers attended from forty-seven states and twenty-six countries, creating one of the largest consumer events in publishing.
THE NEW YORKER AND BANANA REPUBLIC CELEBRATE FASHION’S NIGHT OUT
Friday, September 10, 2010
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
The New Yorker’s Art Editor, Françoise Mouly, curated an exhibition of fashion covers from the magazine’s extensive 85-year archive. The exhibit was installed at the New York City Banana Republic store at Rockefeller Center to coincide with Fashion’s Night Out and remained on display for one week after the event. New Yorker cover artist Jorge Colombo and Banana Republic creative director Simon Kneen were present. Guests enjoyed passed hors d’oeuvres and Elyssia by Freixenet Pinot Noir.
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