ArtsArenaPLUS
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 […]
ArtsArenaPLUS
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 […]
FRED RITCHIN, DEAN EMERITUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
15 November, 2022 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Just after Paris Photo. A visionary thinker whose seminal books and ideas on the future of photography have been the subject of seminars around the world, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography Fred Ritchin first anticipated the digital revolution and now takes us beyond the photographic universe. Today, the “camera does not lie” […]
ArtsArenaPLUS for Benefactors
25 October, 2022 at 20:00 - 22:30 on -
Arts Arena Members at the Benefactor level are invited to a cocktail dînatoire at the Left Bank home of Arts Arena Founder and Artistic Director Margery Arent Safir. The evening will bring our Benefactors together with the US participants in the Arts Arena 2022 Patrons Trip, including six members of the US Board.
THE ARTS ARENA 15th ANNIVERSARY PATRONS TRIP
24 October, 2022 at 00:00 - 00:00 on -
For five days, Patrons of the Arts Arena will be invited to a series of exclusive events, activities, and special hosted meals, including private visits to major exhibits, where we will meet with the museum directors and exhibit curators, including Francois Pinault’s Artistic Advisor, a full rehearsal of Kenneth MacMillian’s iconic ballet Mayerling at the […]
JOAN MITCHELL: A WOMAN IN ABSTRACTION
15 September, 2022 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Cité internationale des arts, 18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 4e
Considered one of the greatest American painters of the post-World War II period, Joan Mitchell was one of the few women to break into the world of abstract art, dominated by male figures such as Pollock, Motherwell, Kline, de Kooning, and Rauschenberg. She lived in France from 1959 until her death in 1992. In anticipation […]