UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL
09 May, 2023 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
For the 16th 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 […]
Conductor Harry Bicket and The English Concert
03 May, 2023 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Salle André Marchal - INJA, 56 boulevard des Invalides, Paris 7e
Internationally acclaimed conductor, harpsichordist, and organist Harry Bicket is particularly associated with the baroque and classical repertoires. Since 2007, he has been Artistic Director of The English Concert, one of Europe’s finest period orchestras. In 2018, he became Music Director of the famed Santa Fe Opera, having already been its Chief Conductor. He has recorded […]
Orléans International Piano Competition Recital
24 April, 2023 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Cité internationale des arts, 18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 4e
Pianist Imri Talgam has played as soloist throughout the world–Europe, North America, Argentina, Russia, China, and Israel, festival appearances at Shanghai New Music Week, Lucerne Festival, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Israel Festival, Mantaa Piano Festival (Finland), Voix Nouvelles (Royaumont, France), and the Tel Aviv Festival for New Music (Tzlil Meudcan), winning recognition for his “extreme virtuosity,” […]
L’Europe autour de l’Europe Film Festival
31 March, 2023 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
For the 12th year, the Arts Arena presents L’Europe autour de l’Europe for a screening and discussion. Founded in 2006 by Irena Bilic, the festival presents art films produced by the countries of Greater Europe with special attention to connections between classic European filmmakers and new talents of contemporary cinema. Among the festival’s guests of […]
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29 March, 2023 at 15:00 - 17:00 on Grand Palais Ephémère, Place Joffre, Paris 7e
Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together some 133 galleries from 25 different countries at the Grand Palais Éphémère from 30 March to 2 April 2023. A leading and innovative spring arts event, Art Paris is the first sustainably designed art fair. This year’s theme is “Art and […]
Sheila Hicks and Robert Storr
09 March, 2023 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Cité internationale des arts, 18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 4e
Renowned curator, author, and artist Robert Storr will return to the Arts Arena in conversation with American artist Sheila Hicks. Selected for the 2017 Venice Biennal, 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York, and the 2012 São Paulo Biennial, Hicks’s work has also been the subject of solo presentations including in 2018 “Lignes de Vie” at […]
TOMAS VAN HOUTRYVE, photographer
15 February, 2023 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Tomas van Houtryve is an award-winning artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose major works, interweaving investigative journalism, philosophy and metaphor, are in the collections of museums around the world. He was selected to document the reconstruction of Notre Dame after the fire of 2019. With rare access to the rebuilding, he made images using a wide […]
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17 January, 2023 at 16:00 - 19:00 on Frank Horvat Studio, 5 rue de l'Ancienne Mairie, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Frank Horvat was an Italian photographer who lived and worked in France, famous for his fashion photography, published between the mid-1950s and the late-1980s. Horvat’s photographic opus includes photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, nature, and sculpture. He was the recipient of the Fondazione del Centenario Award in 2010 for his contributions to European culture. Since his death […]
LIVIA MANERA SAMBUY
06 December, 2022 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Cinéma Les 7 Parnassiens, 98 boulevard Montparnasse, Paris 14e, Paris
While literary correspondent for Italy’s Corriere della Sera, Livia Manera Sambuy became friends with America’s literary giant Philip Roth. In 2010-2011, with French director William Karel, she made a documentary film on Roth, co-produced by Cinetévé, Arte, and RAI. A decade later, she would write an expanded English-language film, Philip Roth: Unmasked, which appeared on […]
AMERICAN FRINGE 6
18 November, 2022 at 00:00 - 00:00 on 51 Rue de Bercy, Paris
American Fringe 6, the sixth edition of the Arts Arena-produced festival of ultra-independent American films, curated by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Professor of Film Practices at Columbia University, and Livia Bloom Ingram, Vice-President of Icarus Films. In partnership with La Cinémathèque française. Each of the eight selected films […]