Screening and Discussion with Academy Award-winning Director Michel Gondry / Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe
05 April, 2015 at 15:00 - 18:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
In a playful animated interview–Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?–French filmmaker Michel Gondry and American linguist, scientific thinker, and political activist Noam Chomsky discuss childhood, language, meaning, the brain, and love. Michel Gondry incorporates both mathematical precision and whimsy in sketching animations over and around footage of the encounters, while octogenarian Noam Chomsky links […]
Yale Arts Arena Lecture 7, Robert Storr and Tatiana Trouvé
31 March, 2015 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
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 […]
ArtsArenaPLUS meets artist Alexa Meade
20 March, 2015 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 90 rue de la Folie Méricourt, Paris, 11e
Galerie SISSO invites ArtsArenaPLUS members to a private viewing and encounter with Alexa Meade during her major show at the gallery. Known for her portraits painted on the human body, Ms. Meade takes the classical concept of trompe-l’oeil in the opposite direction, collapsing depth to make her living models into flat pictures. For information on […]
Laurent Le Bon, Président du Musée Picasso
10 March, 2015 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Europe, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Long considered France’s star curator, Laurent Le Bon was the founding director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz as well as the commissioner of Jeff Koons at Versailles and of Paris’s Nuit Blanche (2012). On June 3, 2014, he was named Président du Musée Picasso, which opened it doors in October 2014 after five years of restoration. […]
ArtsArenaPLUS Private Tour of Musée Picasso
08 March, 2015 at 10:00 - 13:00 on 5 rue de Thorigny, Paris, 3e
In advance of the March 10 appearance of Laurent Le Bon, Président du Musée Picasso, at the Arts Arena, ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to a private guided tour of the museum. The Musée Picasso Paris collection comprises over 5,000 works and tens of thousands of archived pieces. For its quality and scope, as well as […]
The Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award Concert
11 February, 2015 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 2 rue Saint Florentin, Paris, 1e
Aizuri Quartet at the Hôtel de Talleyrand The Arts Arena is honored to present each year an award to musicians selected by the faculty of the renowned Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world’s finest conservatories, and to offer them a concert in Paris. This year’s winner is the Aizuri Quartet, an all-female string […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at l’Opéra Comique
30 January, 2015 at 20:00 - 22:00 on 1 Place Boieldieu, Paris, 2e
The Arts Arena is pleased to be able to offer its members tickets to the sold-out production of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants’s performance of the opera-dance Les Fêtes vénitiennes at the Opéra Comique. Members will be invited to greet Mr. Christie and the performers.
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
25 January, 2015 at 17:00 - 20:00 on Théâtre de la Ville, 2 Place du Châtelet, Paris, 4e
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota is not only the director of one of Paris’s most important theaters: He is himself an acclaimed director of the stage. His latest production, currently playing, is Pirandello’s Six Personnages en quête d’auteur (Six Characters in Search of an Author), the precursor of the Theater of the Absurd and works by such authors as Beckett, […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at Théâtre de la Ville
13 January, 2015 at 20:00 - 22:00 on Place du Châtelet, Paris
We are pleased to offer ArtsArenaPLUS members complementary tickets to the dress rehearsal of Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota’s production of Pirandello’s play Six personnages en quête d’auteur on January 13, the eve of its official opening. This is in anticipation of our January 25 joint event with the theater when, following the 15h00 matinee, Mr. Demarcy-Mota will […]
Jean Fritts, African & Oceanic Art
09 December, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Jean Fritts joined Sotheby’s in 1992 and now is its worldwide head for African and Oceanic art. Previously with the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution, she is a highly respected scholar, but also a central figure in the market for African and Oceanic art. She has been directly involved in the […]