UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL, Traveling Film Festival 18
26 May, 2025 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e
For the 18th time, the Arts Arena presents UNAFF and its Traveling Film Festival (TFF) with a curated series of documentary films. Founded in 1998, by longtime Stanford University educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic, UNAFF has screened documentaries dealing with human rights, the environment, women’s issues, children, refugee protection, homelessness, racism, disease control, universal […]
THE ARTS ARENA CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC CONCERT, Gary Hoffman, cellist, string quartet
15 May, 2025 at 19:30 - 22:00 on George C. Marshall Center, Hôtel de Talleyrand, 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris 1er
Internationally renowned cellist Gary Hoffman, the Nina and Billy Albert Chair in Cello Studies at Curtis, joins some of the school’s esteemed alumni for a concert of iconic works and audience favorites. The program features one of Claude Debussy’s final compositions, the Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, an elegant, evocative work, at once […]
ArtsArenaPLUS private visit of the Centre Pompidou with Laurent Le Bon
06 May, 2025 at 18:30 - 20:30 on Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris 4e
ArtsArenaPLUS invites members to meet Laurent Le Bon, President of the Centre Pompidou, who will receive us at the Centre Pompidou. France’s premiere curator and a great friend of the Arts Arena will speak to us about the plans for the celebrated center and its collection as it closes for five years of reconstruction and reinvention. Space […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]