Paul Holden News

The Onassis Cultural Center NY launches its inaugural fall season with the Onassis Festival NY 2015.  Narcissus Now: The Myth Reimagined is the first annual festival of arts and ideas, taking place in the newly renovated space in the Olympic Tower in New York City.  The Festival features a kaleidoscopic view of the myth of Narcissus through music, visual art, film, science, literature, choreography, culinary arts, fashion and digital media for curious minds. Free and open to the public, Narcissus Nowat the Onassis Cultural Center NY (645 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10022), October 8-11, will include over 40 events for audiences of all ages-novices and scholars alike.  The Inaugural Season continues with the World Citizens symposium on October 23 and music programs in November and December.

Suzanne Farrell, one of the greatest ballerinas of her generation, proved herself to be a charming and thoroughly engaging raconteur when she appeared on the evening of May 12th 2015 as a guest of LIVE from NYPL. The event at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in NYC was ably hosted by LIVE founder Paul Holdengraber and co-presented with Jennifer Homans' Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University as well as the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Known internationally for his riveting political thrillers, Oscar-winning writer-director Costa-Gavras will be the subject and guest of honor at a new public program of the Onassis Cultural Center NY, Profiles, on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:00 pm. The host ofProfiles, noted cultural curator Paul Holdengraber, will engage Costa-Gavras in a discussion of his life, work and ideas, and comment with him on excerpts from his films.

Public dialogues led by the noted philosopher and author Simon Critchley, a new series; a tribute to celebrated filmmaker Costa-Gavras launching new conversation series 'Profiles' hosted by Paul Holdengraber; a discussion about the contest in today's world between tyranny and freedom; and a concert pairing prominent U.S. and Greek composers of the same generation, Giorgos Koumendakis and Steven Mackey, will be among the programs that the Onassis Cultural Center NY will offer in its Fall 2013 Cultural Series.

Public dialogues led by the noted philosopher and author Simon Critchley, a new series; a tribute to celebrated filmmaker Costa-Gavras launching new conversation series 'Profiles' hosted by Paul Holdengraber; a discussion about the contest in today's world between tyranny and freedom; and a concert pairing prominent U.S. and Greek composers of the same generation, Giorgos Koumendakis and Steven Mackey, will be among the programs that the Onassis Cultural Center NY will offer in its Fall 2013 Cultural Series.

Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno, and Peters Sellars are among the artists scheduled to participate in a series of public programs dedicated to the arts and creative collaboration in New York City this fall.

Rolex and LIVE from the NYPL today announced that tickets are now on sale for the arts festival LIVE from the NYPL Presents the Rolex Arts Weekend.

Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno, and Peters Sellars are among the artists scheduled to participate in a series of public programs dedicated to the arts and creative collaboration in New York City this fall.

On January 8, 2011, the world's most famous burlesque performer turns 100 years old. Join LIVE from the NYPL for a centennial celebration of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee: novelist, playwright, New Yorker essayist, fashion icon, actress, activist, member of New York's literati, world-famous 'ecdysiast' and subject of one of the best-loved musicals in American history. Be amused and appalled by dramatic readings from never-before-published letters in Gypsy's archives, housed in the New York Public Library.

BAM_20010101 BAM Presents JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Frank McGuinness. This production comes from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland and is directed by James Macdonald with set design by Tom Pye, costume design by Joan Bergin, lighting design by Jean Kalman, and sound design by Ian Dickinson

On January 8, 2011, the world's most famous burlesque performer turns 100 years old. Join LIVE from the NYPL for a centennial celebration of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee: novelist, playwright, New Yorker essayist, fashion icon, actress, activist, member of New York's literati, world-famous 'ecdysiast' and subject of one of the best-loved musicals in American history. Be amused and appalled by dramatic readings from never-before-published letters in Gypsy's archives, housed in the New York Public Library.

BAM_20010101 BAM Presents JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Frank McGuinness. This production comes from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland and is directed by James Macdonald with set design by Tom Pye, costume design by Joan Bergin, lighting design by Jean Kalman, and sound design by Ian Dickinson

Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, today announced programming for the BAM 2011 Spring Season, which runs from Jan 7 through Jun 11, 2011. The season comprises eight theater, opera, and dance engagements and features BAMcinématek series, BAMcafé Live weekend music events, artist talks, visual art exhibitions, and literary events.

Grammy Award winners Bill Whelan (Riverdance) and Susan McKeown, actress and TONY nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Man Booker nominee Emma Donoghue, are among the featured artists this Fall at the Irish Arts Center.

Whoopi Goldberg will host George Carlin: A Tribute on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library.

Whoopi Goldberg will host George Carlin: A Tribute on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library.

Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose has its Metropolitan Opera premiere on March 5 at 8:00 pm, conducted by Valery Gergiev, in a visually arresting new production by artist William Kentridge that features original collage, film, sculpture, and massive projections of the artist's drawings and prints. Making his Met debut, baritone Paulo Szot performs the role of Kovalyov in the story of the Russian official who wakes one morning to discover his nose has disappeared (and taken on a higher bureaucratic rank). Based on the short story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, the opera is what Kentridge has called an exploration of "learning from the absurd." In this production, visuals include renderings of Soviet workers, snatches of newspaper, and projections of propaganda - as well as the missing appendage in adventures ranging from delivering a speech to riding a horse.

On October 8th, Cognitive Theatre will host an evening of conversation with Met General Manager Peter Gelb, Tony Award winning director Bartlett Sher, and Patrice Chéreau, who makes his long-awaited U.S. opera debut this season with a new production of Janácek's FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD.