Brendan Gill Prize

Recipients

• 2023 – Charles Gaines, The American Manifest: Chapter 1
• 2021 – John Wilson, How To with John Wilson
• 2020 – Julia Wolfe, Fire in my mouth

  Special Recognition Honoree: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Contested City: Art & Public History as Mediation at New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area
  Special Recognition Honoree: Thomas J. Campanella, Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
  Special Recognition Honoree: Stanley Greenberg, CODEX New York; Typologies of the City
  Special Recognition Honoree: Eric K. Washington, Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

• 2019 – Stephen Maing, Crime + Punishment
• 2018 – Melissa Rachleff, Inventing Downtown: Artist–Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 – Julia Wertz, Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional Ilustrated History of New York
• 2017 – Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas – Matthew “Levee” Chavez, Subway Therapy
• 2016 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alex Lacamoire, Thomas Kail, and Andy Blankenbuehler, Hamilton: An American Musical – Frederick Wiseman, Inside Jackson Heights
• 2015 – Kara Walker, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby; an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of th – New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant
• 2014 – Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times articles on Penn Station
• 2013 – Louis Kahn (posthumously), Four Freedoms Park
• 2011 – John Morse, Curbside Haiku
• 2010 – Michael Van Valkenburgh, Brooklyn Bridge Park
• 2009 – Mike and Doug Starn, See it change, see it split
• 2008 – Sufjan Stevens, The BQE
• 2007 – Sarah Jones, Bridge & Tunnel
• 2006 – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Central Park
• 2005 – Yoshio Taniguchi, The new Museum of Modern Art
• 2004 – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family – Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America
• 2003 – John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian LaVerdiere, Paul Marantz, and Paul Myoda, Tribute in Light
• 2002 – Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associate, American Folk Art Museum – Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, and Charles Traub, Here is New York exhibit
• 2001 – Christopher Wheeldon, Mercurial Manoeuvres – Honorable Mention: MTA Arts for Transit, For Want of a Nail
• 2000 – Mauren Hackett, Herald and Greeley Square Parks – Honorable Mention: Allison Prete, Lavender Lake: Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal – Honorable Mention: John Kuo Wie Then, New York Before Chinatown
• 1999 – Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham – Honorable Mention: Phillip Lopate, Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
• 1998 – Frederick Fisher, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center – Honorable Mention: Susan Tunick and Peter Mauss, Terra Cotta Skyline – Honorable Mention: Milo Mottola, Riverbank State Park Carousel
• 1997 – George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk
• 1996 – Hugh Hardy, New York Victory Theatre
• 1995 – Louis Malle and André Gregory, Vanya on 42nd Street
• 1994 – Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet
• 1993 – Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel
• 1992 – John Yau and Bill Barrette, Big City Primer: Reading New York at the End of the Twentieth Century
• 1991 – David Hammons, High Falutin’
• 1990 – Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn’t Kill; Greed and Indifference Do
• 1989 – Kevin Roche, Central Park Zoo
• 1988 – Rudolph Burckhardt, film series at the Museum of Modern Art