Paula Zahn to Host SUNDAYARTS PRIMETIME SPECIAL From MOMA, 10/27

2011 New York Emmy Award winner Paula Zahn hosts the next SundayArts Primetime Special from The Museum of Modern Art. She looks at the Sculpture Garden; "de Kooning: A Retrospective"; "Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983"; and "Diego Rivera Murals for the Museum of Modern Art." The special airs on Thursday, October 27 at 8 p.m. (WLIW will show the program on Thursday, November 3 at 7:30pm)

SundayArts is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET New York Public Media, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local arts programming to the New York community.
Also on the special, News Correspondent Christina Ha, based at the at the recently re-opened National Academy Museum on upper Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, spotlights the "An American Collection" exhibit; as well as exploring other events around town including "Performa 11," the New Visual Art Performance Biennial; "Silver Screen/Silver Prints: Hollywood Glamour Portraits from the Robert Dance Collection" at The Grolier Club; "The Mountaintop" (starring Samuel L. Jackson & Angela Bassett) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre; and the dance festival "Wave Rising Series" at White Wave John Ryan Theater.

The program's profile segment features Zahn's interview with opera and theater director Peter Sellars. Renowned for his productions around the world, Sellars explains his approach to creative collaboration as well as his upcoming production of "Desdemona" at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. The Curator's Choice is "Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers" at Japan Society.
SundayArts provides the tri-state audience with a unique overview of New York City's unparalleled cultural offerings, encompassing not only the performing arts but the visual arts as well. Each broadcast includes news, profiles, and magazine-style segments covering New York City's vast array of museums, artists, gallery exhibitions, and live performances, all in tandem with an extensive web site (www.thirteen.org/SundayArts). Executive producer is David Horn. Joan Hershey is editorial director. Supervising producer is Mitch Owgang, Bob Morris is Senior Producer. Segment producers are Kevin Alexander, Elizabeth Dwyer, and Maria Stoian.
SundayArts, with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn, regularly airs Sundays at noon on Thirteen and Thirteen HD, and encores each Sunday at 3 pm on WLIW21.

This SundayArts Primetime Special is made possible in part by First Republic Bank and by The Rubin Museum of Art. Funding for SundayArts is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, the Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation, The Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation, The Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Jody and John Arnhold, and The Lemberg 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.

Visit the SundayArts Web site at www.thirteen.org/SundayArts for additional information.

 

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