The Arts Arena Watermill Performance
01 June, 2016 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Each year, a performance developed at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in Water Mill, Long Island, New York, is selected for a European premiere at the Arts Arena. Past Arts Arena Watermill Performances include Girlmachine. by Charles Chemin and Carlos Soto; excerpts from the dance-opera Wolf-in-Skins by choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears; Roman Paska’s […]
The City (Paris), the Poet (Paul Celan), and the Artist (Alexander Polzin)
24 May, 2016 at 19:00 - 21:30 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
At the end of May, the City of Paris will unveil a bronze sculpture honoring the post-war poet Paul Celan in the Anne Frank Garden in Paris’s 3e arrondissement. The artwork is by German sculptor, painter, set designer, and director Alexander Polzin, known by Parisians for his sculpture The Couple in the foyer of the […]
United Nations Association Film Festival / 9th UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Paris
09 May, 2016 at 00:00 - 00:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Conceived in 1998 at Stanford University by film critic and educator Jasmina Bojic in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) screens documentaries by international filmmakers dealing with topics such as human rights, environmental themes, women’s issues, children, refugee protection, […]
L’Europe autour de l’Europe film festival
04 April, 2016 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
The Arts Arena is pleased to be part of the exciting L’Europe autour de l’Europe European Film Festival for the fifth year, presenting, screening, and discussing a selection from the Festival’s documentary films. This year’s selection is Jungle Sisters (80 mini.), an Indian/UK production, directed by Chloe Ruthven. The screening will be followed by a […]
The Arts Arena Yale School of Music Recital
30 March, 2016 at 19:30 - 21:30 on Georges C. Marshall Center, Hôtel de Talleyrand, 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris, 1er
A versatile performer, mezzo-soprano Evanna Chiew is at home on both the operatic and concert stage. Her 2015-16 engagements include chamber and art song recitals in Sweden, France, Poland, and the United States. She began her operatic career as the Abbess in Suor Angelica with the University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble, with which she […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at Centre Georges Pompidou
15 March, 2016 at 00:00 - 00:00 on Centre Georges Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris, 4e
Heterogeneous, elusive, painful, fantastical, still too close, as light-hearted as they were serious, the ’80s were full of contrasts and paradoxes. With films and photographs from its collections, the Centre Pompidou casts a fresh eye on this decade in an exhibition featuring over 20 artists and some 60 works in a completely new circuit, from […]
The Arts Arena International: Visual Arts Minimalism: What Impact on Contemporary Dance?
09 March, 2016 at 19:00 - 22:00 on to be confirmed, New York City
Two stellar figures in the arts–dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs and curator, artist, scholar, and Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr–one in the world of dance, the other in the visual arts, in an Arts Arena Interdisciplinary Conversation, followed by a Q&A with the audience and a reception. Minimalism originated in New […]
POSTPONED – Bob Wilson Back at the Arts Arena
02 March, 2016 at 19:00 - 21:30 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Considered the world’s foremost avant-garde theater artist, Robert Wilson ranges across opera, theater, visual arts, video, furniture and set design in his pursuit of astounding multimedia spectacles. Susan Sontag wrote of his career, “It has the signature of a major artistic creation. I can’t think of any body of work as large or as influential.” […]
POSTPONED – Yale Arts Arena Lecture 8
22 February, 2016 at 19:00 - 21:30 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Dean of the Yale School of Art, curator, artist, and author, Robert Storr is one of the world’s most influential voices in contemporary art. He was Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, the first American to be named Commissioner of the Venice Biennale, and the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at […]
The Arts Arena International at SCAD deFINE ART 2016
18 February, 2016 at 00:00 - 00:00 on SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
The Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD, presents the seventh edition of deFINE ART, the university’s annual fine and contemporary art showcase. Taking place Feb. 16-19, 2016, at SCAD US locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, and in Hong Kong, this year’s deFINE ART will feature renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems as the honoree […]