BORN IN THE STREETS: GRAFFITI, Leanne Sacramone, Senior Curator, Fondation Cartier

 17 April, 2025 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

In 2009, the Fondation Cartier opened its entire gallery space, as well as the building’s façade and surrounding garden, for an exhibition entitled “Born in the Streets:  Grafitti.” Leanne Sacamone curated the show, which featured the history of graffi and put the art form — born in the 1970s on the streets of New York […]

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ArtsArenaPLUS, Special Visit of Art Paris 2025

 02 April, 2025 at 15:00 - 17:00 on Grand Palais, Paris 8e

ArtsArena PLUS invites members to a special visit of Art Paris 2025, the leading spring event for modern and contemporary art in Paris. This year, the event returns to the renovated Grand Palais and will host 170 galleries from 25 different countries. It will also launch the French Design Art Edition, a new feature focusing on design […]

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LUCINDA CHILDS, Four New Works

 24 March, 2025 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

Lucinda Childs is an icon of postmodern dance. Now, from March 19-22 at Théâtre de Chaillot, she will present the first new works she has developed in almost a decade, “Four New Dances.” Performed by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company in collaboration with visual artist Anri Sala, pianist Anton Batagov, and composers Philip Glass and […]

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ArtsArenaPLUS, Louis Langrée presents the 2025-2026 season at L’Opéra-Comique

 11 February, 2025 at 18:30 - 20:30 on Opéra-Comique, 1 place Boieldieu, Paris 2e

We are happy to share with our Premium and Benefactor Members an invitation to hear Louis Langrée, General Manager of the Opéra-Comique, present the 2025-2026 season at the Opéra-Comique. The presentation will be followed by a cocktail reception. For those who you who might not have been able to attend our ArtsArenaPLUS visit to the […]

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Filippo Gorini, pianist, Sonata for 7 Cities

 28 January, 2025 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

Many of you were present in December 2023 when, after a conversation with sculptor Alexander Polzin, Italian pianist Filippo Gorini gave an extraordinary performance of Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” in its entirety, without music and without pause.  It is with great pleasure that the Arts Arena welcomes Filippo Gorini back for an avant […]

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Underground Images, School of Visual Arts NY

 16 December, 2024 at 18:00 - 20:00 on To be confirmed

Since 1947, SVA has had the longest-running continuous ad campaign in the New York City subway system: posters by such legends as Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, George Tscherney, and Stefan Sagmeister. An exhibition of these iconic posters, Underground Images, will be on display in Paris from November 25, 2024 to January 3, 2025 on the […]

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Opera Fuoco, 20 years on, David Stern, Katharina Wolff Stern, and Opera Fuoco

 12 December, 2024 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

The Paris-based opera company Opera Fuoco, founded 20 years ago by conductor and director David Stern, is dedicated to lyric repertoire from the mid-18th century to the present. Combining an ambitious young artists program and international performance season, it is one of the most versatile ensembles in Paris. Stern is also Music Director of the […]

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Paul Ham, author, and Alexander Polzin, sculpter, All About the Soul

 05 December, 2024 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

Critically-acclaimed historian, author of 12 books, journalist and former Sunday Times correspondent, Australian writer Paul Ham has just released The Soul: A History of the Human Mind. For thousands of years, the soul was an “organ,” an entity, something that was part of all of us, that survived the death of the body. It could […]

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Nadia Charbit and Fiammetta Horvat, Legacy: Photographic Archives

 18 November, 2024 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 rue de Fourcy, Paris 4e

What happens when being born who you are makes you heir to an important body of artistic work done by a father or a grandfather?  When you inherit not only a trove of major artworks but also the responsibility for preserving them, exhibiting them, managing the commerical use of them, continuing to make them live.  […]

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The Arts Arena Yale School of Music Recital at the Galerie Dorée of the Banque de France

 05 November, 2024 at 20:00 - 22:00 on Galerie Dorée, Banque de France, 2 rue de Radziwill, Paris 1e

The Arts Arena Yale School of Music Recital 2024 will feature four young musicians: soprano Laura Miah, bass-baritone Justice Yates, violinist Emma Meinrenken, and collaborative pianist Lucas Nogara.  Both vocalists and the violinist are pursuing Master’s degrees at Yale School of Music, while Mr. Nogara, already recognized on the opera and art song stage as […]

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