NYC-ARTS Announce Weekly Listings for 9/5- 10/31

NYC-ARTS provides arts lovers in the tri-state area with an all-access pass to the New York City area's myriad cultural offerings: from music and dance concerts, to the theater, museums and galleries-from the classic to the contemporary.

New York Emmy winners Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn co-host.
NYC-ARTS airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on THIRTEEN. Encore presentations will generally follow on Sundays at 12 noon on THIRTEEN; Fridays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. on WLIW21; and Sundays at 8:30 p.m. on NJTV. New episodes will also be available on NYC-ARTS.org every Friday morning.

Thursday, September 5
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #179
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. Artist James Turrell, whose work is currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is the subject of the feature/profile. The choice segment explores The International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in Newport, RI. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Museum at FIT, reports on various events around town, including the museum's "RetroSpective"; the Museum of Chinese in America's "Shanghai Glamour New Women 1910s-40s" and "Front Row: Chinese American Designers";Ukrainian Museum's "Out of Tradition: Contemporary Decorative and Applied Art" exhibition and "Fashion Ukrainian Style" runway show; "Peak Performances" at Montclair State University; and Buglisi Dance Theatre's "Table of Silence" at Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza.

Thursday, September 12
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #180
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. A featurette on the PBS Great Performances series "The Hollow Crown" is the feature/profile. The choice segments explore "Hopper Drawing" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and "Object Lessons: Why Green Rocks" a segment from Christie's fine art auction house. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Museum at FIT, reports on various events around town, including a preview of "A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk" there; "Francofolies New York" at the Beacon Theatre, (with international stars singing Edith Piaf songs) and Patricia Kaas singing Piaf at New York's Town Hall; "Crossing the Line" at FIAF; "Fall for Dance, Free @ the Delacorte," at City Center; "Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts" and "Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections"; and Basil Twist's "Dogugaeshi" at Japan Society.

Thursday, September 19
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #181
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. Zahn's interview with actor Christopher Plummer is the feature/profile. Correspondent Christina Ha, based in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum at Hyde Park, N.Y., reports on various events around town.

Thursday, September 26
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #182
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. The opening of the Metropolitan Opera's 2013-2014 season is the feature/profile. Correspondent Christina Ha, based in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum at Hyde Park, N.Y., reports on various events around town.

Thursday, October 3
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #182
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is the feature/profile. The choice segment explores Monet's Waterlilies at MoMA. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at The Jewish Museum, reports on various events around town.

Thursday, October 10
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #183
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. Raphael Pi Roman's interview with jazz singer DeeDee Bridgewater is the feature/profile. The choice segment explores "Object Lessons: Collecting Can Wait. A Connoisseur's 3 Steps to Selection and Exceptional Drinking Wine" at Christie's. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at The Jewish Museum, reports on various events around town.

Thursday, October 17
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #185
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. Paula Zahn's interview with actress Cherry Jones discussing her role in "The Glass Menagerie" is the feature/profile. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at The Morgan Library & Museum, reports on various events around town, including the Morgan's exhibit "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul" and Monika Grzymala's "Volumen."

Thursday, October 24
8-8:30 p.m.(Pre-empted in this THIRTEEN time slot for mayoral debate)
NYC-ARTS #186
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. The Avery Fisher Career Grant Awards 2013: violinist Bella Hristova is the feature/profile. "Legends of the Dead Ball Era (1900-1919) in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the choice segment. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at The Morgan Library & Museum, reports on various events around town, including the Morgan's exhibit "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul."

Thursday, October 31
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #187
Weekly magazine providing the tri-state audience with a unique overview of the city's unparalleled cultural offerings with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. Theater for a New Audience is the feature/profile. "Object Lessons: The Storied Tale of a Silver Candelabra" at Christie's is the choice segment. Correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Sands Point Preserve/Hampstead House, reports on Design House International there and various events around town.

NYC-ARTS is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. For 50 years, THIRTEEN has been making the most of the rich resources and passionate people of New York and the world, reaching millions of people with on-air and online programming that celebrates arts and culture, offers insightful commentary on the news of the day, explores the worlds of science and nature, and invites students of all ages to have fun while learning.
Executive Producer: David Horn. Editorial Director: Joan Hershey. Supervising Producer: Mitch Owgang. Senior Producer: Bob Morris. For the digital platforms, General Manager: Dan Greenberg. Director of Digital Strategy: Joe Harrell.
Funding for NYC-ARTS is made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, The Agnes Varis Trust, Jody and John Arnhold, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by members of THIRTEEN. NYC-ARTS is also made possible in part by First Republic Bank.
Visit the NYC-ARTS Web site at NYC-ARTS.org for additional information.

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About WNET
In 2013, WNET is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of THIRTEEN, New York's flagship public media provider. As the parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, WNET brings quality arts, education and public affairs programming to over 5 million viewers each week. WNET produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Need to Know, Charlie Rose and a range of documentaries, children's programs, and local news and cultural offerings available on air and online. Pioneers in educational programming, WNET has created such groundbreaking series as Get the Math, Oh Noah! and Cyberchase and provides tools for educators that bring compelling content to life in the classroom and at home. WNET highlights the tri-state's unique culture and diverse communities through NYC-ARTS, Reel 13, NJ Today and MetroFocus, the multi-platform news magazine focusing on the New York region. WNET is also a leader in connecting with viewers on emerging platforms, including the THIRTEEN Explore iPad App where users can stream PBS content for free.

About NYC-ARTS
NYC-ARTS aims to increase awareness of New York City's nonprofit cultural organizations, whose offerings greatly benefit residents and visitors-from children to adults, and teenagers to senior citizens. NYC-ARTS promotes cultural groups' activities and events to tri-state, national and international audiences through nonprint media, using new technologies as they develop. Through television, Web sites, mobile applications and social media, NYC-ARTS nurtures New York City's position as a thriving cultural capital of the world, one that has both world-renowned institutions and those that are focused on local communities.

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