The architect Richard Meier has given visitors the chance to view the models from projects spanning his 40-year career. Stored in a bare-bones 3,600-square-foot studio in Long Island City, Queens, the collection ranges from Mr. Meier’s residential houses of the 1960’s to early... | Learn More

The New York City Ballet is one of the foremost dance companies in the world and is unique in US artistic history. New York City Ballet's Spring Season was Architecture of Dance – New Choreography and Music Festival, a celebration of new work. 

The program on June 8th consisted... | Learn More

Tony Award-winner BILLY CRUDUP (THE COAST OF UTOPIA, Almost Famous, Big Fish) returned to the Vineyard Theatre stage in ADAM RAPP's powerful drama about a gifted New York writer’s explosive encounter with a small American town hellbent on banning his young... | Learn More

CAAL Members attended Gustavo Dudamel's New York debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Lincoln Center.  Dudamel began his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 9/28/2009 with a rehearsal of Beethoven's 9th Symphony that included the Los Angeles Master Chorale and... | Learn More

"Carmen is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.” Elina Garanca sang Carmen for... | Learn More

Mark Lamos's Emmy Award-winning production captured the romance and pathos of this heart-wrenching tale.  The radiant Shu-Ying Li reprised her role as the trusting geisha, whose love for her American naval officer ends tragically when Eastern and Western cultures collide. This intimate... | Learn More

American Idiot tells the exhilarating story of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world, borne along by Green Day's electrifying score. With an 8 member onstage band and a cast of 19 led by Tony Award-winner John Gallagher, Jr., this high-octane... | Learn More

CAAL members had access to an exclusive private tour of the Broadway Penthouse, owned by Matthew Blesso, real-estate developer and owner of the Penthouse.  The Broadway Penthouse is an open 3,000-square-foot penthouse loft with a 2,100-square-foot roof garden that redefines the... | Learn More

Selected Shorts presented an evening of tales by Raymond Carver, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (from Memories of the Future, nominated for Best Translated Book of 2010) and others about the mysterious, curious or just plain insane people we live close to, with a special... | Learn More

“Giddy with intelligence… a smart, vulgar, comic-book romp through history.“ - The New Yorker

“Delightful… Poised between deadpan wonder and frat-house humor. Bloody may be a hoot, but it’s also a primal holler.” - The New York... | Learn More

Back by popular demand!  CAAL Members were invited to FREE All-Pro Standup Showcase performance at Comix. As an added perk, the first round was free.

CAAL Members were also given a wrist-band at check-in that allowed them happy hour prices in the main bar both before AND after the... | Learn More

Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti, and consists of video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile... | Learn More

The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during... | Learn More

PULSE is the leading U.S. art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. PULSE New York featured a diverse list of 60 premiere, international galleries and new installations and performances as part of its critically acclaimed series of cultural programming.

CAAL Members were invited for... | Learn More

Swan Lake
Choreography by Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine

Swan Lake, the last of the great 19th-century Russian ballets, is a work of emotional intensity, inventive choreography and glorious music, a lyrical and moving musical/psychological dance... | Learn More

CAAL Members participated in a night at Time Stands Still, hosted in partnership with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  After the performance, they took part in a talkback with Columbia Journalism professor Helen Benedict, a specialist on the Iraq War and women's... | Learn More

Nearly 200 alumni gathered with the cast of Broadway's newest hit A View From the Bridge (directed by Columbia Arts Initiative Director Gregory Mosher) at the Glass House Tavern. Gregory, Scarlett Johansson, Liev Schreiber, Jessica Hecht, and the rest of the cast took photos with CAAL members,... | Learn More

Oleanna is Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's most controversial drama. This gripping production, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, had Los Angeles critics raving during its run.  Oleanna has electrifying dialogue, blazing emotion and an ending that will leave you... | Learn More

CAAL Members will had a private docent-led tour of the Neue Galerie exhibition, "From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection;" a three-course prix-fixe gourmet dinner at the Café Sabarsky, prepared by celebrated New York chef Kurt Gutenbrunner; and a cabaret... | Learn More

CAAL Members saw this brand-new revival of the acclaimed musical Ragtime, which received rave reviews at the Kennedy Center in Washington during it's spring 2009 season.  After the show, CAAL Members had access to a private talkback with the cast.

For many, New York City was the... | Learn More

Columbia alumni Michael Pettis (’81SIPA, ’84BUS) and Charles Saliba (’00CC) discussed current events in China, from financial markets to rock and roll, over a private brunch* with an intimate group of fellow Columbians and Asian Cultural Council... | Learn More

A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm. Revolving around four venues spread across the city, this burgeoning group of performers are working outside government-controlled media channels, and in the process, capturing the attention of the international music community. They now... | Learn More

CAAL Members toured the private underground cheese-curing caves at Murray's Cheese Shop (New York's oldest) with an affineur (or cheese ager), who cares for hundreds of cheese wheels, turning and washing them regularly to distribute the butterfat and improve flavor while they ripen. They tested... | Learn More

The equally charming divas Joyce DiDonato and Diana Damrau brought their distinct interpretations to the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Rodion Pogossov played the swaggering barber.

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile... | Learn More

To Duke Ellington, music was his mistress: a sophisticated lady, a clothed woman and a tattooed bride. This special concert presented some of the most sensuous, romantic music from jazz's all-time number one ladies man. Unchallenged in his accomplishment as jazz's greatest composer, Ellington's... | Learn More