L’Europe autour de l’Europe
25 March, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
The Arts Arena is pleased to be part of the European Film Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe for the fourth time, presenting, screening, and discussing one of the festival’s documentary films in the presence of festival director Irena Bilic. This year’s selection and the event location will be announced shortly.
The Yale School of Music Arts Arena Recital Claudia Rosenthal
07 March, 2014 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Celebrated conductor William Christie, founder of Les Arts Florissants and a Yale School of Music Graduate, will introduce (sous réserve) the inaugural event of the Arts Arena-Yale Music School partnership. One of the leading professional music schools in the world, Yale has educated generations of students of exceptional musical and academic talent as successful performers, […]
Richard Peña, Director of the New York Film Festival
21 February, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Richard Peña has served as the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival. At the Film Society, he has organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioini, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Gabriel Figueroa, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura, and Amitabh […]
Yale Arts Arena Lecture 6
14 February, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Adolph Frederick Reinhart, known as “Ad” Reinhardt, was an Abstract painter active in New York from the 1930s through the 1960s. A member of the American Abstract Artists, he was part of the movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism and was a major influence on cenceptual art, minimal art, and monochrome painting. Most famous […]
Lucinda Childs and Caitlin Scranton
04 January, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Lucinda Childs is one of the most important dancers and choregraphers of the 20th century and founder of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company. She choreographed and performed in Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s iconic opera Einstein on the Beach. Her seminal work Dance, with music by Philip Glass and a film/decor by Sol LeWitt, continues […]
Stefan Kurt
16 December, 2013 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
The great Swiss-born actor Stefan Kurt, who has starred in the Berliner Ensemble’s The Black Rider and The Three Penny Opera and made over 50 films, plays Captain Hook in Robert Wilson’s Peter Pan, which opens at Paris’s Théâtre de la Ville on December 12. Declared by Wilson as “my favorite actor in the whole […]
The Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award Concert
04 December, 2013 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Mona Bismarck American Center for arts and culture, 34 avenue de New York, Paris 16e The Arts Arena is proud to present the second annual Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award for a graduating or recently-graduated artist selected by the celebrated faculty of this leading conservatory. Among its legends, Curtis counts Leonard Bernstein, Samuel […]
Robert Wilson (r), Mikhail Baryshnikov (l), Willem Dafoe (c)
16 November, 2013 at 15:00 - 17:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Through his signature use of light, his investigations into the structure of a simple movement, and the classical rigor of his scenic and furniture design, Robert Wilson has created productions that have decisively shaped the look of theater and opera since the 1960s and earned him recognition as one of the world’s major and most […]
Georges Helft: Pourquoi Duchamp
04 November, 2013 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to hear Georges Helft speak about this provocative artist at the home of Arts Arena director Margery Arent Safir, followed by a cocktail dînatoire. Marcel Duchamp, French and American, was one of the giants who revolutionized 20th-century art, questioning even what constitutes a work of art. Yet no solo exhibition of […]
United Nations Association Film Festival and Traveling Film Festival
24 October, 2013 at 18:00 - 21:00 on 4, rue de Chevreuse, Paris
A special re-screening of three of the UNAFF-TFF documentaries presented at the Arts Arena in May 2013. All deal with an offense to or defense of human dignity: Not My Life, 32 minutes, Director and Producer, Robert Bilheimer. Subject: modern slavery Brother Outsider: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, 84 minutes. Director and Producer, […]