THIRTEEN's NYC-ARTS Explores the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art This December

On December 12, NYC-ARTS will feature a look at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art dedicated to providing a platform for artistic exploration through multi-faceted LGBTQ perspectives located in SoHo.

Formerly known as the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the museum was founded by Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman, who hosted their first art exhibition featuring gay artists in 1969. The couple continued to collect and exhibit the work of gay artists while supporting the Soho community through the 1970s and 1980s. With a collection of over 30,000 works by LGBTQ artists, the museum also hosts six major exhibitions annually, offers several public programs throughout the year, maintains a vast research library, and publishes an arts newsletter.

NYC-ARTS, THIRTEEN's weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, brings arts lovers an all-access pass to the interesting, unusual and unique cultural offerings of the greater New York City region.

Co-hosted by New York Emmy Award winners Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn, NYC-ARTS showcases both world-renowned and local, community-based arts organizations.

See below for a full detailing of December's NYC-ARTS lineup.

The program airs on Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on THIRTEEN. Each episode is also available to stream on NYC-ARTS.org the Friday following the broadcast. Encore presentations generally follow on Sundays at 11 a.m. on THIRTEEN; Tuesdays at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21; Saturdays at 7 p.m. on NJTV. NYC-ARTS anchors a five-hour wheel on the new ALL ARTS channel, seen daily at 5 a.m., 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Thursday, December 5

8-8:30 p.m.

NYC-ARTS #471

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. This week's program features a profile of Irina Kolpakova, ballet mistress and coach of principal dancers at the American Ballet Theatre. The program also features sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens' "Victory" and "Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Man)," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Thursday, December 12

8-8:30 p.m.

NYC-ARTS #472

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. This week's episode features a profile of photographer Gregory Crewdson. The episode also features a look at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho.

Thursday, December 19

8-8:30 p.m.

NYC-ARTS #473

The THIRTEEN primetime show is pre-empted by broadcast of the Democratic Presidential Debate.

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. This week's episode features de Montebello in conversation with Pierre Terjanian, the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator in Charge of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Arms and Armor, discussing the exhibition "The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I" on view at the museum through January 5, 2020. The program also features The Origami Tree, an annual New York city holiday tradition at the American Museum of Natural History.

Thursday, December 26

8-8:30 p.m.

NYC-ARTS

This episode is pre-empted across all channels for special holiday programming.

NYC-ARTS is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers.

Executive Producer: David Horn. Editorial Director: Joan Hershey. Supervising Producer: Mitch Owgang. For the digital platforms, Chief Digital Officer: Dan Greenberg. Director of Digital Production: Chris Mather.

NYC-ARTS is made possible in part by First Republic Bank and by Swann Auction Galleries. Major funding for NYC-ARTS is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, The Lewis "Sonny" Turner Fund for Dance, Jody and John Arnhold, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Charles and Valerie Diker, the Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, the Jean Dubinsky Appleton Estate, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and Ellen and James S. Marcus. 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 NYC-ARTS Web site at NYC-ARTS.org for additional information.

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