By Nina Burleigh 2/20 4:11pm

The Bombshell

Abu Dhabi illustration

Louvre, Guggenheim and NYU Accept Millions From Abu Dhabi but Remain Silent on Human Rights

Three of the Western world’s premier cultural institutions—New York University, the Guggenheim and the Louvre—are in various stages of setting up shop on Sa’adiyat (“Happiness”) Island in Abu Dhabi, forming what has been described as a “highbrow cultural theme park” in the desert city-state. The deals that the Guggenheim and NYU cut with the emir are not news. Petro-potentates started collecting liberal institutions as the latest Western must-have a decade ago.  Read More

By Foster Kamer 7/20/12 5:52pm

Wonderful Moments in Public Speaking

Oh Fran How We Love You

Fran Lebowitz Goes to Town on NYU, NYU Students, and Bloomberg’s Micro-Apartments (Video)

New York City icon, author, and essayist Fran Lebowitz needs little in the way of introduction. Via ANIMAL New York, she recently made an appearance at SoHo bookstore McNally Jackson for the release of the book ’While We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York‘ which was written by a group of NYU faculty members (but of course) who are in opposition to the university’s president, John Sexton. Ms. Lebowitz was her usual, fiery self, which is to say: Utterly captivating and refreshingly impassioned. Read More

By Molly Fischer 4/30/10 2:55pm

College

College Presidents to Labor Department: Unpaid Internships ‘A Huge Success’

Thirteen college presidents, including NYU’s John Sexton, sent a letter to the Labor Department this week discouraging further regulation of unpaid internships:

While we share your concerns about the potential for exploitation, our institutions take great pains to ensure students are placed in secure and productive environments that further their education. We constantly Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/23/10 1:20am

NYU Ready to Grow

For the past three years, New York University has been massaging Greenwich Village.

The school, with a beefed up community affairs operation, has thrown bones to preservation groups (consenting to the landmarking of a large NYU block); adjusted plans to demolish a building with a theater when faced with opposition; and held a recurring set Read More

By John Koblin 3/10/08 6:47pm

A Long Night for Times Metro Desk (With Correction)

A team of New York Times metro and investigation reporters and editors have been working since yesterday afternoon to break the story of Eliot Spitzer’s alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, according to a newsroom source.

The group of editors were led by metro editor Joe Sexton, politics editor Mary Ann Giordano (former Observer managing Read More