Today, Art21 Executive Director Tina Kukielski announces the appointment of four new members to their Board of Directors-an exciting mix of industry-leaders in digital media, technology, entertainment, and arts education that reflect the future-facing organization's mission to expand its reach as a global leader of digital content about contemporary artists. The appointees are as follows:
On Thursday, April 20, 2017, the National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts), along with honorary co-chairs Debbie Allen, Agnes Gund and Sir Salman Rushdie, and gala co-chairs Sarah Arison and Thomas Wilhelm, and Gillian Hearst Simonds and Christian Simonds, welcomed more than 270 of New York's top cultural and community leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and art aficionados to the second annual YoungArts New York Gala.
On Thursday, April 20, the National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) will welcome 280 of New York City's top cultural and community leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and art aficionados to the second annual YoungArts New York Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing. Presented in collaboration with luxury brand Swarovski, with support from Max Mara, the event will be hosted by honorary co-chairs Debbie Allen, Agnes Gund and Sir Salman Rushdie, as well as gala co-chairs Sarah Arison and Thomas Wilhelm, and Gillian Hearst Simonds and Christian Simonds. The YoungArts New York Gala will be emceed by former Gossip Girl and The Knick actress Zuzanna Szadkowski (1997 Winner in Theater and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), and will feature an elegant reception and seated dinner by Restaurant Associates. Throughout the evening, a series of interdisciplinary performance vignettes will be directed by YoungArts alumni Jake Goldbas (2007 Winner in Jazz), featuring soul singer and songwriter Grace Weber (2006 Winner in Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), jazz singer, songwriter and bassist Kate Davis (2009 Winner in Jazz and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), R&B/pop singer and songwriter and The Voice Season 8 Top 5 contestant India Carney (2011 Winner in Theater, Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), modern dancer Javon Jones (2016 Winner in Dance and inaugural Max Mara Young Visionary Award recipient) alongside four recent YoungArts dance alumni, and more.
Canton Museum of Art invites you to travel through an excavation of powerful talismans, mummies, shrines, entities, and totems . . . through reflections on the ancient and perceptions on the future, all from the creative energy of artist Gary Spinosa.
The Museum of Modern Art's Modern Jazz Social, a benefit and live music performance, will turn the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium into a jazz club featuring performances by Jon Batiste and ELEW on April 27. An after-party, featuring a performance by MeLo-X, will run from 9:30 p.m. to midnight in the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby.
New York Live Arts 2017 Live Ideas Gala, co-chaired by Sarah Arison, Slobodan Randjelovic, and Jon Stryker and with award-winning actors Kathleen Turner and Delroy Lindo as masters of ceremony, pays tribute to Live Arts' annual Live Ideas Festival. The Gala will take place at the Highline Ballroom, located at 431 W 16th Street, New York City on Monday, April 3 with a cocktail reception at 6:30pmfollowed by the dinner and program at 7:15pm.
The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Jazz Foundation of America will co-present Stanley Jordan on Today, March 9, 2017 at 8pm at BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater. Among the most gifted guitarists of his generation, Jordan is master of the two-handed tapping technique, using the neck of the guitar like a keyboard rather than strumming or picking. Applying this astonishing technique, or "touch style" in another setting, Jordan also performs on both guitar and piano at the same time, playing chords and melodies with his hands on separate instruments and uniquely melding the two sounds into one. More than a technical phenomenon, Jordan conveys an astounding depth of musical expression through a multi-faceted solo repertoire, ranging from bold reinventions of classical masterpieces to improvisational contemporary works. At BAC, Jordan will be joined for several songs by his daughter, New York City-based singer/songwriter Julia Jordan.
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University is presenting its first-ever public symposium on March 3-4, 2017, at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on campus. re|ACT: Symposium on Arts and Environment convenes an exceptional group of innovators and practitioners - artists, curators, designers, architects, writers, activists, and scholars among them - whose cutting-edge work engages a diversity of environments we inhabit. Symposium participants include individuals whose work responds to both natural and organic environments and to built and virtual constructions: sonic, visual, and performance artists using environmental data as a structural element, for example.
The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Jazz Foundation of America will co-present Stanley Jordan on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 8pm at BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater. Among the most gifted guitarists of his generation, Jordan is master of the two-handed tapping technique, using the neck of the guitar like a keyboard rather than strumming or picking. Applying this astonishing technique, or "touch style" in another setting, Jordan also performs on both guitar and piano at the same time, playing chords and melodies with his hands on separate instruments and uniquely melding the two sounds into one. More than a technical phenomenon, Jordan conveys an astounding depth of musical expression through a multi-faceted solo repertoire, ranging from bold reinventions of classical masterpieces to improvisational contemporary works. At BAC, Jordan will be joined for several songs by his daughter, New York City-based singer/songwriter Julia Jordan.
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University is presenting its first-ever public symposium on March 3-4, 2017, at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on campus. re|ACT: Symposium on Arts and Environment convenes an exceptional group of innovators and practitioners - artists, curators, designers, architects, writers, activists, and scholars among them - whose cutting-edge work engages a diversity of environments we inhabit. Symposium participants include individuals whose work responds to both natural and organic environments and to built and virtual constructions: sonic, visual, and performance artists using environmental data as a structural element, for example.
The Works & Process Rotunda Projects Initiative Gala at the Guggenheim Museum raised more than $450,000 in commissioning funds for the Works & Process Rotunda Projects program. The announced initiative will expand the Guggenheim's Works & Process program's commissioned performances into the museum's iconic rotunda. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!
Kurt Deutsch, President of Ghostlight Records, today announced that the original cast of the Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Best Musical and multi-Tony Award nominated musical Bright Star will reunite for a one-night-only concert to celebrate the show's smash hit Original Cast Recording.
The Baryshnikov Arts Center will present two BAC Salon concerts in November, both in the intimate Howard Gilman Performance Space. On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 7:30pm, BAC and Composers Now co-present Dialogues with Margaret Brouwer, Esperanza Spalding, and Du Yun and performances by Amy Schwartz Moretti, Blair McMillen, Michael Lipsey, Du Yun,and String Noise, moderated by Composers Now founder, artistic director, and composer Tania Leon.
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) presents Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016 through January 15, 2017. During her brief career-just fourteen years, between 1971 and 1985-the Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) produced a stunning body of work that included performances, drawings, sculptures, installations, and photographs.
2016-17 Programming Expands the Chorus' Pioneering Role as a Powerful Lead Performer, a Bold Commissioner of New Music and a Producer of Innovative Stage Works.
The Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden, a benefit event held today, June 1, will honor collection artists Huma Bhabha, Mark Bradford, and Brice Marden, along with philanthropists Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman and Sally and Wynn Kramarsky. In recognition of their prolonged commitment to culture, the arts, and MoMA, this year's honorees are being celebrated for their artistry and philanthropy. Co-chairs of the event are Susan and Michael Dell, Agnes Gund, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Catie and Donald Marron, and Amy and John Phelan. Honorary co-chairs are Leon D. Black, Marie-Josée Kravis and Jerry I. Speyer.