♪ >>> COMING UP ON "NYC ARTS," A VISIT TO FOTOGRAFISKA, NEW YORK, IN THE FLAT IRON DISTRICT.

>> AS PEOPLE MOVE THROUGH THE SPACE WHAT WE REALLY WANTED TO EMPHASIZE WAS DIFFERENT TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED WITH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, MIXED WITH LANDSCAPE, FINE ART CONCEPTUAL WORK, REALLY HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.

>> AND A LOOK AT THE EXHIBITION GARMENTING, COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART.

NOW AT THE MUSZ YUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN.

>> GARMENTINGS COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART IS THE FIRST GLOBAL SURVEY OF ARTISTS WHO ARE USING GARMENTS AS A MEDIUM.

THEY ARE MAKING OR ALTERING GARMENTS FOR EXPRESSIVE PURPOSES.

>>> FUNDING FOR "NYC ARTS" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY -- THEA PETSCHEK IERVOLINO FOUNDATION.

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CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER.

THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION.

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.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "NYC ARTS."

I'M PAULA ZAHN ON LOCATION AT POSTER HOUSE ON WEST 23rd STREET IN THE HEART OF CHELSEA.

POSTER HOUSE IS THE FIRST AND ONLY MUSEUM IN THE UNITED STATES DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO THIS MULTI-FACETED MEDIUM.

THE MUSEUM EXPLORES MOMENTS IN HISTORY SHOWING WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE DESIGN, ARTISTRY, PRINTING AND CONTEXT OF GRAPHIC ART OF THE TIME.

IT'S A WELCOMING SPACE FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN DESIGN, ADVERTISING AND YES, EVEN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS OF ALL KINDS.

THE MUSEUM FEATURES POSTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD DATING BACK TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN THE LATE 1800s RIGHT UP TO THEIR CONTEMPORARY YEARS.

EXHIBITIONS TO DATE HAVE FEATURED THE WORK OF LUMINARIES LIKE ALPHONSE MUCHA AND JULIUS CLINGER.

THEY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED IMPORTANT EVENTS SUCH AS THE WOMEN'S MARCH OF 2017 AS WELL AS THE HAND PAINTED FILM POSTERS OF 1990s AGAINA, THE HISTORY OF THE CHINESE ECONOMY THROUGH THE LENS OF ADVERTISING AND A WHOLE LOT MORE.

♪ ♪ CURRENTLY ON VIEW IS AN EXHIBITION WITH AN INTRIGUING TITLE.

EXPERIMENTAL MARRIAGE, WOMEN IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD.

IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY IT WAS COMMON FOR WOMEN TO HOLD A VARIETY OF JOBS INCLUDING THOSE OF PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR AND WRITER.

THE UNREGULATED STATUS OF THIS GROWING FIELD IN THE 1910s AND '20s MEANT THAT THERE WERE FEWER BARRIERS TO ENTRY.

THIS ALLOWED WOMEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCEL BOTH ON AND OFF CAMERA, ESPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY WHERE NEW CINEMA HUB HIS WERE BEING DEVELOPED.

THIS EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON LOBBY CARDS, ADVERTISING HOLLYWOOD AND EAST COAST MOVIES MADE LARGELY BY WOMEN FOR WOMEN.

TYPICALLY ISSUED IN A SERIES OF EIGHT, LOBBY CARDS FUNCTIONED AS STATIC TRAILERS, FOCUSING ON KEY SCENES WITHIN A FILM IN ORDER TO HIGHLIGHT THE PLOT AND LEAD CHARACTERS.

AS THEIR NAMES SUGGEST, THEY WERE OFTEN DISPLAYED IN THE LOBBIES OF THEATERS, ENTICING VIEWERS TO COME BACK AND SEE THE NEXT FILM, THE MOVIES ADVERTISED HERE COVERED THREE MAIN TOPICS.

WOMEN WITH INFLUENCE, WOMEN WHO WORK AND MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

EACH STORY WAS EITHER WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PRODUCED, ART DIRECTED, EDITED OR HAD COSTUMES DESIGNED BY A WOMAN AND WERE AGAIN PROMOTED TO A PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE AUDIENCE.

HOWEVER, AS HOLLYWOOD GREW AND INVESTORS SAW CINEMA AS LARGELY PROFITABLE, STUDIOS BEGAN TO PRODUCING FEWER MOVIES WITH BIGGER BUDGETS AND MORE POPULAR CONTENT.

JOBS WERE NOW DEFINEDED BY UNIONS AND STRICTER OVERSIGHT ALWAYS WITH AN EYE ON THE BOTTOM LINE.

BY THE 1930s, MANY OF THE EARLIEST WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRY WERE BEING FORCED OUT WITH YOUNGER WOMEN READY TO REPLACE THEM.

THE SHIFT IN THE STRUCTURE OF FILM PRODUCTION EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATED WOMEN CREATING AN OLD BOYS NETWORK THAT SOME WOULD SAY PERSISTS TODAY.

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 9th.

>> NOW A VISIT TO FOTOGRAFISKA, NEW YORK, A PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM IN THE FLAT IRON DISTRICT.

LOCATED IN THE LANDMARK CHURCH MISSION BUILDING, THE MUSEUM IS THE NEWEST GLOBAL OUTPOST FROM THE STOCKHOLM-BASED DESTINATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

THE BUILDING WAS RENOVATED BY ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM CETRA RUDDY TO PROVIDE EVENT SPACE.

A LUTHER G. MOSES PRESERVATION CONSERVANCY FOR ITS WORK ON THIS HISTORIC BUILDING.

THE MUSEUM HAS PRESENTED A WIDE RANGE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS AND SUBJECTS FROM TAWNY CHATMON'S GILDED PORTRAITS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN TO BIBLICAL SCENES FROM ADI NES TO THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF ELLEN VON UNWERTH TO THE PHOTO JOURNALISM OF ANASTASIA TAYLOR LIND AMONG MANY OTHERS.

NYC ARTS VISITED THE MUSEUM IN 2020 TO TALK ABOUT THE BUILDING'S UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL PAST AS WELL AS ITS FUTURE.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> FOTOGRAFISKA WAS FOUNDED IN 2010 IN STOCKHOLM BY TWO BROTHERS.

THEY'VE HAD OVER 250 EXHIBITIONS AT THIS POINT.

JUNE OF 2010, THEY OPENED THE SECOND LOCATION WHICH WAS IN ESTONIA AND IN DECEMBER OF 2019, NEW YORK OPENED.

FOTOGRAFISKA OCCUPIES A NEW YORK CITY LANDMARK WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1894 AS THE MISSION HOUSE FOR THE EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH THAT WAS DOWN THE STREET.

IT WAS AN UNDERUTILIZED NEW YORK CITY LANDMARK AND ONE OF THE REALLY EXCITING CHALLENGES OF THE PROJECT WAS TO TAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING THAT WAS 126 YEARS OLD AND GIVE IT NEW LIFE AND GIVE IT LONGEVITY FOR THE NEXT 200 OR 300 YEARS.

THE ARCHITECTURE IS KNOWN AS NEO FLEMISH, AND IT REFERS BACK TO THE BEAUTIFUL GILD HALLS AND TOWN HALLS OF EUROPE.

THE BUILDING HAS AN AMAZING LIME STONE AND GRANITE FACADE THAT WAS PUNCTUATED BY LARGE ART WINDOWS AND THE RESTORATION, WHEN WE UNEARTHED ALL OF THIS BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE, WE ALSO PUT VERY DISCREET LINING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING SO THAT YOU COULD SEE FIX FLOORS UP THE AMAZING ORIGINAL DETAILING THAT NO ONE KNEW WAS THERE FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.

AS PEOPLE MOVED THROUGH THE SPACE, WHAT WE REALLY WANTED TO EMPHASIZE WAS DIFFERENT TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED WITH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED WITH LANDSCAPE, FINE ART CONCEPTUAL WORK REALLY HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.

ONE OF THE THINGS AT FOTOGRAFISKA STOCKHOLM HAS BEEN THE DESIGN.

WE DECIDED TO ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING THIS BUILDING AND BLOCKING OUT NATURAL LIGHT TO ACTUALLY USE THAT TO ELEVATE THE WORK.

SO WE USE A LOT OF WALLPAPERS, COLORS, FONTS TO FURTHER EXPLAIN WHAT THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OR WHAT THIS EXPECTITION IS ABOUT.

ELLEN VON UNWERTH IS MOST KNOWN FOR HER FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CURATOR WHO WORKED ON THE EXHIBITION CREATED THIS SEVEN DIFFERENT THEMES WITHIN THE EXHIBITION.

THEY EACH HAD THEIR DIFFERENT COLORS AND THE COLORS THAT SHE HAD SHOT OVER HER CAREER OF 30-PLUS YEARS AND MADE THOSE INTO WALLPAPERS AND IT WAS A REALLY FUN AND DYNAMIC WAY OF SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHY AND IT SORT OF STEERS US AWAY FROM THE WHITE CUBE MODEL THAT'S SO TRADITIONAL.

THE ARTIST, COOPER AND GORFER DID THESE EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS AND FORTPORTRAITS OF MIGRANT WO WHO HAD TO LEAVE THEIR HOME COUNTRIES FOR VARIOUS REASONS USUALLY DUE TO CONFLICT OR VIOLENCE HAPPENING AND ENDED UP LIVING IN SWEDEN.

COOPER AND GORFER DESIGNED THE WALLPAPERS AND WE HUNG THE PHOTOGRAPHS ON TOP OF THEM AND SARA AND NINA REALLY WANTED TO PEOPLE TO WALK INTO THAT SPEES AND FEEL ENCOMPASSED BY THESE INTRICATE SETS THAT THEY HAD CREATED AND THESE PORTRAITS THAT THEY PHOTOGRAPHED.

MARTIN SCHOELLER IS WORKING WITH A NON-PROFIT CALLED WITNESS TO INNOCENCE AND WHAT HE DECIDED TO DO WAS IN HIS SORT OF QUINTESSENTIAL STYLE TAKE THESE UP-CLOSE PORTRAITS OF DEATH ROW EXONOREES AND IT'S A VIDEO INSTALLATION.

HE DECIDED TO ALSO RECORD THEIR STORIES SO YOU'RE HEARING FROM THEIR OWN WORDS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ARRESTED, GO ON TRIAL, BE CONVICTED AND LIVE ON DEATH ROW FOR CRIMES THAT THEY DID NOT COMMIT.

>> I SAY REAL LOUD, I DON'T WANT TO DIE, AND -- >> AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THE EXHIBITION, WHAT WE ACTUALLY DECIDED TO DO WAS CREATE THIS SENSE OF TIGHT, SORT OF INTIMACY GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER, YOU KNOW, TO ALMOST WHAT A DEATH ROW CELL LOOKS LIKE SO THAT PEOPLE GET A SENSE OF WHAT THEIR LIVES WERE LIKE WHILE THEY WERE INCARCERATED.

>> WE HAVE SOME LOCAL EXHIBITIONS THAT ARE ON THE OTHER ARTISTS THAT DEAL WITH ISSUES IN NEW YORK AND LARRY FINK IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS OF HIS GENERATION, MAINLY IN STREET PHOTOGRAPHY.

LARRY FINK ACTUALLY CONDITION TACTED US AND SAID I REALLY LOVE YOUR PROGRAM YOU'RE DOING CALLED PHOTOGRAPHERS ON THE FRONT LINES AND THIS WAS WHEN WE REALLY HANDED OVER OUR PLATFORMS TO PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT WERE PHOTOGRAPHING THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS REALLY WHAT I WAS DOING THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.

I WOULD LOVE TO GET INVOLVED.

LET'S DO SOMETHING ON THE PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY THAT I TOOK IN THE '60s.

WORK FROM HARLEM AND WASHINGTON, D.C., WITH VARIOUS STUDENT PROTESTS AND THE YOUTH PROTESTS, THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON.

THAT'S ONE OF THE STRENGTH OF FOTOGRAFISKA IS THAT WE CAN RESPOND PRETTY QUICKLY TO RELEVANT ISSUES AND STAY VERY CURRENT.

>> NAIMA GREEN IS A BROOKLYN-BASED ARTIST AND ALL OF HER PHOTOGRAPHS ARE OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY.

MOSTLY PEOPLE OF COLOR.

MORE OF A CELEBRATION.

THESE SORT OF INTIMATE AND CAREFULLY CRAFTED PHOTOGRAPHS.

♪ >> OUR WHOLE CONCEPT IS REALLY CATERING TO THE NEW WAY THAT WE FEEL THAT PEOPLE WANT TO VISIT MUSEUMS WHERE IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE EXPERRENTIAL AND MORE INTERACTIVE.

ON THE SIXTH FLOOR WE DO EVENTS AND COSTUME PARTIES, PERFORMANCE PIECES, CONCERTS, KIND OF PULLING FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT AREAS AND MAKE IT A LAYERED EXPERIENCE.

DURING THE PANDEMIC WE DID TRANSITION A LOT OF OUR PROGRAMMING ONLINE.

A LOT OF LIVESTREAMING EVENTS.

OUR FAMILY PROGRAMMING THAT USED TO TAKE PLACE INSIDE THE BUILDING, WE'VE MOVED IT OUTSIDE WHEN WE CAN.

THIS IS REALLY GOING TO CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE A MUSEUM OR EXPERIENCE FOTOGRAFISKA SPECIFICALLY.

I THINK WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO FOTOGRAFISKA IS BEING RELEVANT AND RESPONDING QUICKLY TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD.

WE REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO COME TO FOTOGRAFISKA AND SEE THE SOCIAL RELEVANCE IN THE ART WORK THAT'S ON DISPLAY.

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♪ ♪ >>> NEXT, WE'LL VISIT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN FOR A LOOK AT THE EXHIBITION GARMENTING, COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART.

IT SHOWS HOW CLOTHING CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION AND EVEN PERFORMANCE ART.

ON VIEW IS THE WORK OF 35 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, SEVERAL OF WHOM WHO WILL BE SHOWING THEIR WORK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED STATES.

ALSO INCLUDED FOR MORE ESTABLISHED ARTISTS OF TODAY SUCH AS JEFFREY GIBSON, NICK KAB AND THE LEGENDARY AND PROLINK LOUISE BERJOUIO.

CURATOR ALEXANDRA SCHWARTZ WILL BE OUR GUIDE.

♪ ♪ >> MY NAME IS ALEXANDRA SCHWARTZ, AND I'M A GUEST CURATOR HERE AT THE MUSEUM OF DESIGN.

GARMENTING COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART IS THE FIRST GLOBAL SURVEY OF ARTISTS WHO ARE USING GARMENTS AS A MEDIUM.

SO WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT IS THAT THEY ARE MAKING OR ALTERING GARMENTS FOR EXPRESSIVE PURPOSES.

♪ >> THEY ARE CREATING INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURE AS WELL AS PERFORMANCES THAT LOOK AT COSTUME AND FASHION WITH A CRITICAL EYE.

THERE ARE 35 INTERNATIONAL ART FIRSTS IN THE SHOW FROM WELL-ESTABLISHED NAMES TO EMERGING VOICES.

SOME OF WHOM HAVE NEVER BEFORE SHOWN IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE EXHIBITION BEGINS WITH THIS WORK BLUE DAYS BOY THE FRENCH-AMERICAN ARTIST LOUISE BORGEOIS AND SHE'S VERY WHOLE AT THIS POINT SHE'S BEST KNOWN FOR HER KULL WANT YOU ARE, BUT SHE ALWAYS USED GARMENT IT IS IN HER AND THIS IS A FORM OF ALTERED VERSIONS OF HER OWN CLOTHING.

>> SHE'S LOOKING AT HER OWN PERSONAL HISTORY AND SHE'S ALSO THINKING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES AS A WOMAN, AS A MOTHER AND THE KIND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF THAT.

THESE ARTISTS WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW CLOTHING IS AN EXPRESSION OF NOT ONLY PERSONAL IDEAS ABOUT GENDER OR GENDER IDENTIFICATION, BUT ALSO HOW OUR SOCIETY PROPAGATES CERTAIN IDEAS ABOUT GENDER THROUGH ♪ ♪ >> THIS WORK IS BY THE ARTIST SAYA WOOLFAULK.

SHE'S LOOKING AT MANY DIFFERENT ARTISTIC TRADITIONS WHICH COME OUT OF HER OWN PERSONAL BACKGROUND.

HER GRANDPARENTS OWNED A TEXTILE FACTORY IN JAPAN, AND SHE LEARNED TO SEW FROM HER GRANDMOTHER.

THERE ARE REFERENCES TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

THE WORK SPEAKS TO AN ONGOING PROJECT.

SHE HAS INVENTEDED HER OWN ON AND THEY'RE POPULATE BY THE EMPATHICS.

IT'S MEANT TO BE FANTASTICAL AND A METAPHOR FOR HOW CULTURES COME ♪ ♪ >> THESE ARTISTS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR OWN CULTURES, THEIR BACKGROUNDS, THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS HOW CULTURES BOTH COME TOGETHER AND DIFFER THROUGHOUT THE ♪ ♪ >> THESE WORKS ARE BY THE ARTIST NICK CAVE WHO PROBABLY IS THE BEST KNOWN PRAKT IGSZER WITH THE IN RESPOND TO THE ROD KINNEL ARE KING, HE MADE A SUIT OUT OF TWIGS THAT HE DESCRIBEDA AN ARMOR AGAINst RUG AND THE TWIGS MADE A LOT MOVE IT SHOW THAT HE WAS PRESS EVENT AND ALSO TO WARD OFF DANGER.

>> HE'S CONTINUED TO MAKE SOUND SUITS IN THE DECADES SINCE THEN AND THEY'VE EVOLVED A LOT OVER THE YEARS.

♪ ♪ >> THE ONE OF THESE WHICH HE ACTUALLY WORE IS FROM 2006.

♪ >> IT ALSO INCLUDES THESE AMAZING SACKS THAT ARE HANGING FROM THE TOP PART OF THE SOUND SUIT THAT ARE ACTUALLY MADE OF GROCERY NET BAGS OF THE KIND THAT YOU BUY ONIONS IN OR ORANGES STUFFED WITH EASTER GRASS.

THEY'RE INCREDIBLY COLORFUL AND INCREDIBLY VIBRANT, BUT THEY HAVE THIS VERY SPECIFIC POLITICAL STORY BEHIND THEM.

HE TRAINED AS A DANCER WITH ALVIN AILEY, AND THEIR TRAINING IS VERY MUCH ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT.

♪ ♪ MARY SIBANDE IS A SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST.

IT ALL FOCUSES ON AN ALTER EGO WHO SHE CALLS SOPHIE.

IN THE EARLIEST WORK, SOPHIE ALWAYSER WITH A BLUE UNIFORM, AS A MAID OR A NANNY'S -- OVER TIME THAT UNIFORM HAS GONE FROM BLUE TO PURPLE TO RED WHICH SYMBOL AND IT SHOWS SOPHIE AS A POWERFUL, RATHER FRIGHTENING FIGURE AND ONE WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THIS ENORMOUS JOURNEY.

THE PHENOMENON OF ARTISTS USING GARMENTS IN THEIR PRACTICE IS INTERNATIONAL.

IT HAPPENS LITERALLY ALL OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE THERE ARE DIFFERENT DRESS TRADITIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT ARTISTS COMMENT ON AND ANALYZE AND THINK ABOUT IN THEIR WORK.

>>> NEXT WEEK ON "NYC ARTS," A PROFILE OF JAMES WHITESIDE, PRINCIPAL DANCER WITH AMERICAN BALLET THEATER.

>> I WAS 9 YEARS OLD WHEN I STARTED DANCING.

I DID JAZZ, BALLET, TAP, ACROBATICS AT A SCHOOL IN FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT, AND I GOT INTO DANCING BECAUSE I TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE, FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, SOCCER, AND MY MOM ONE DAY THREW ME A PHONE BOOK AND SAID YOU HAVE TO PICK SOMETHING.

YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY YOU HYPERACTIVE MONSTER.

♪ ♪ >> AND SO I FOUND AN AD FOR A DANCE STUDIO IN THE PHONE BOOK, AND IT WAS OF A MAN HOLDING A WOMAN OVER HIS HEAD WITH ONE HAND, AND IT JUST LOOKED AWESOME AND I SAID I WANT TO TRY THAT.

♪ >> AND A VISIT TO THE PARISH ART MUSEUM TO DISCOVER THE WORKINGS OF AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE.

>> WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE HAD A LONG AND RICH TODAY ON LONG ISLAND.

HE STAKED HIS PLACE TO THE LANDSCAPE TO THE UNTUTORED EYE.

>>> I HOPE YOU ENJOYED OUR PROGRAM THIS EVENING.

I'M PAULA ZAHN AT POSTER HOUSE IN CHELSEA.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

GOOD NIGHT.

♪ ♪ >> TO ENJOY MORE OF YOUR FAVORITE SEGMENTS ON NYC ARTS VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT ♪ ♪ >>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "NYC ARTS."

>> I'M PAULA ZAHN.

I'M PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO AT THE TISCH STUDIOS AT LINCOLN CENTER.

>> LEONARD, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK WITH YOU.

>> I LOVE BEING HERE WITH YOU, PAULA.

>> WHERE ARE WE?

>> WE ARE AT A MOMENT TO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED.

IT'S WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF SOME OF THE SKULLOR RJS AND I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN BEFORY ARTICULATE THE LYRICSES, I UDENLY -- MY PRIMARY WAY OF PLAYING THE PIANO WAS BY IMPROVISING.

>> YOU ARE ON SOME RESPECTS ON SACRED GROUND.

>> A WOMAN CAME TO SEE ME PERFORM AND SAID HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY BILLIE HOLIDAY?

>> MATISSE USED PENS TO COMPOSE HIS WORK.

>> YOU ARE ALWAYS SURPRISED DOING A PIECE THAT'S A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND YOU THINK THAT COULD BE NOW.

>> THE CARDBOARD GUITAR IS THE VERY FIRST OF THAT MOMENT OF REALIZATION.

>> SUDDEN LILY YOU COME AND PRET SOMETHING AND YOU GET APPLAUSE.

GREAT, YOU ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> FUNDING FOR "NYC ARTS" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY -- THEA PETSCHEK IERVOLINO FOUNDATION.

THE LEWIS "SONNY" TURNER FUND FOR DANCE.

THE AMBROSE MONELL FOUNDATION.

JODY AND JOHN ARNHOLD.

ELISE JAFFE AND JEFFREY BROWN.

CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER.

THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION.

THE MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION.

THE ELROY AND TERRY KRUMHOLZ 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.

"NYC ARTS" IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY -- >> FIRST REPUBLIC BANK PRESENTS "FIRST THINGS FIRST."

AT FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, FIRST REFERS TO OUR FIRST PRIORITY.

THE CLIENTS WHO WALK THROUGH OUR DOORS.

THE FIRST STEP?

RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY CLIENT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH UNIQUE NEEDS.

FIRST DECREE.

BE A BANK WHOSE CURRENCY IS SERVICE IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL BANKING.

THIS WAS FIRST REPUBLIC'S MISSION FROM OUR VERY FIRST DAY.

IT'S STILL THE FIRST THING ON OUR MINDS.

>> AND BY SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT AUCTIONS.

OFFERING VINTAGE BOOKS AND FINE ARTS SINCE 1941.

LOOKING TO COMBINE KNOWLEDGE WITH ACCESSIBILITY.

WHETHER YOU'RE A LIFELONG COLLECTOR, FIRST-TIME BUYER, OR LOOKING TO SELL.

INFORMATION AT