New School - Appearances in Media

Appearances in Media

• The Bravo television program Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the Actors Studio concluded in 2005.

• Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features the elite fashion design department of Parsons The New School for Design.

• In 1986, P.M. Rutkoff and W.B. Scott wrote New School: A History of The New School For Social Research, a book about the university's history.

• Claus-Dieter Krohn's Intellectuals In Exile: Refugee Scholars at The New School for Social Research was translated into English and released by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1993. The book is an in-depth examination of The New School, the University in Exile, and the work of scholars who worked within these institutions.

• After Eugene Lang College ranked #1 nationally in the Princeton Review's "Intramural Sports Unpopular or Nonexistent" category, ESPN featured "In Search of the Worst Sports College In America", an article about The New School.

• In the reality TV series Driving Force, John Force's daughter takes a tour of The New School.

• Student activism at The New School is mentioned in the graphic novel Students For A Democratic Society: A Graphic History.

• New School Political Science and Liberal Studies Professor James Miller's book Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to The Siege of Chicago (1987), which chronicles the rise and fall of the 1960s organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was featured as recommended reading in the insert for the alternative band Rage Against The Machine's 1996 album Evil Empire.

• The New School is mentioned humorously in several New York City based sitcoms, such as 30 Rock and Will & Grace.