Arts Arena events are designed as international or specifically French-American cultural interactions. The events are free and open to the public; however, reservations are advised, as many events reach capacity and offer standing-room only for those who have not reserved a seat. To guarantee priority seating at all events, please RSVP to rsvp@artsarena.org. Each event is followed by a cocktail reception with the speakers and audience.

Additional special events are reserved for Arts Arena members as part of our ArtsArenaPLUS program. These have included a private Chopin recital at the Place Vendôme jeweler Chaumet in the room where Chopin wrote his last music and died, a talk by bestselling author Alan Riding about his latest book, at the home of the Director of the Arts Arena, followed by dinner with the author, and a private concert by the Curtis Institute of Music chamber ensemble at a home overlooking the Luxembourg gardens. For information on becoming a member, please click here.

October 4, 2023

JAMES IVORY AND STEPHEN SCHER

Location: Cinéma Les 7 Parnassiens, 98 boulevard Montparnasse, Paris 14e

Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director James Ivory started filming in Afghanistan some 60 years ago, but the film stayed in a box. Fifty years ago, in the 1970s, art historian and curator Stephen Scher began filming interviews in France on French cuisine and restaurants, but the film stayed in a… View More

October 18, 2023

G.H. HOVAGIMYAN AND VALERY GRANCHER

DIGITAL ARTISTS, DIGITAL ART

Location: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

“G. H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work for critique of art, popular… View More

November 6, 2023

NATALIA KAZARYAN, PIANIST

Playing the Old Canon and the New

Location: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

A graduate of the Julliard School, pianist Natalia Kazaryan has performed at The Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, the National Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, and elsewhere, combining her love of the classical music canon with works by women composers and other underrepresented groups. In addition to Beethoven’s Piano… View More

November 17, 2023

AMERICAN FRINGE 7

Location: Cinémathèque Française, 51 rue de Bercy, Paris 12e

American Fringe 7, the seventh edition of the Arts Arena-produced festival of ultra-independent American films, curated by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, Professor of Film Practices at Columbia University, and member of the Arts Arena Advisory Council, and Livia Bloom Ingram, Vice-President of Icarus Films,… View More

December 14, 2023

ALEXANDER POLZIN, sculptor and FILIPPO GORINI, pianist

Location: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

Alexander Polzin was born in East Berlin in 1973. His sculptural works and paintings works are seen in galleries and prominent public spaces around the world. including his “Giordano Bruno” in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, “Le Couple” at the Paris Opera Bastille, and “Hommage à Paul Celan” in the Anne Frank… View More