Gavin Browning was part of team that opened the Lenfest Center for the Arts on Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus in April 2017. Featuring four flexible venues and a public plaza, this state-of-the-art facility designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop is a hub for cultural and civic exchange in Upper Manhattan.
Also in 2016–17, he organized workshops and events with Rebecca Solnit as part of the Mellon Visiting Artists and Thinkers Program, as well as conversations between Carol Becker and Phillip Lopate; Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang; Margo Jefferson and Trey Ellis; Miya Masaoka and Tom Kalin; and Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi about Making a Murderer; a performative lecture by William Kentridge, and The Big Draw, a daylong participatory drawing event on Columbia University’s Low Plaza.
“Columbia University’s Arts and Science Centers by Renzo Piano Building Workshop,” by Fred Bernstein. Architectural Record, May 1, 2017.
“Columbia University’s New Renzo Piano-Designed Art Center Debuts,” by Tanay Warerkar. Curbed, March 23, 2017.