THIRTEEN Announces Listings for NYC-ARTS, 2/28 - 5/30

"NYC-ARTS" UPDATED WEEKLY LISTINGS February 28 - May 30, 2013

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; Sundays at 3 p.m. and Mondays at 7 p.m. on WLIW; and Sundays at 8:30 p.m. on NJTV. New episodes will also be available on NYC-ARTS.org every Friday morning.

Thursday, February 28
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #156
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paul Taylor Dance Company is the feature/profile. Edvard Munch's "The Scream" at The Museum of Modern Art is the choice segment. News correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Brooklyn Museum, reports on various events around town, including the "Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui" there; as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center; "Clive," directed by and featuring Ethan Hawke, at The New Group; "Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy" at Queen Sofía Spanish Institute; Jennifer Koh's "Bach and Beyond, Part II" at 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall and "Two x Four: Bach Revisited" with Jaime Laredo at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University; and "Ice Hot: A Nordic Dance Festival" at The Joyce Theater.

Thursday, March 7
Pre-empted due to pledge programming

Thursday, March 14
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS SPECIAL
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paula Zahn interviews the cast and playwright of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" moving to Broadway on March 14.

Thursday, March 21
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #157
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Pianist Jeremy Denk is the feature/profile. "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" at the International Center for Photography is the choice segment. News correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Whitney Museum of American Art, reports on various events around town, including the exhibitions "Blues for Smoke" and "American Legends: Calder to O'Keeffe" there; as well as Signature Theatre Company's "Old Hats" with Bill Irwin and David Shiner; "Nick Cave: Heard*NY" at Grand Central Terminal; the National Academy Museum's "Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture"; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 30th anniversary at The Joyce Theater; and The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art's "New Directors/New Films" festival.

Thursday, March 28
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #158
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Dance Theater of Harlem and Fabio Luisi, principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera are the features/profiles.

Thursday, April 4
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #159
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Philippe de Montebello discusses the New-York Historical Society's "WWII & NYC" with curator Marci Reaven in the feature/profile. The Rubin Museum of Art is the choice segment. News correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Whitney Museum of American Art, reports on various events around town, including the exhibition and performance series "Blues for Smoke" there; The Morgan Library and Museum's "Marcel Proust & Swann's Way: 100th Anniversary" and "Treasures from the Vault"; the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Julius Caesar" at BAM; The Joyce Theater Foundation Gala and Nederlands Dans Theater at David H. Koch Theater; and Neue Galerie's "German and Austrian Decorative Arts from Jugendstil to the Bauhaus: The Harry C. Sigman Gift" and "German Expressionism 1900-1930: Masterpieces from the Neue Galerie Collection."

Thursday, April 11
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #160
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paula Zahn's interview with Bill T. Jones, Executive Artistic Director of New York Live Arts is the feature/profile. The Museum of Jewish Heritage featuring Museum Director David Marwell is the choice segment. News correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Japan Society, reports on various events around town.

Thursday, April 18
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #161
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Season of Cambodia is the feature/profile. "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" at the International Center for Photography is the choice segment. News correspondent Christina Ha, based at the Japan Society, reports on various events around town.

Thursday, April 25
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #162
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Philippe de Montebello's interview with Louise Mirrer, President of the New-York Historical Society is the feature/profile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity" featuring Christina Ha's conversation with Department of European Painting curator Susan Alyson Stein is the choice segment.

Thursday, May 2
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #163
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris is the feature/profile. The Brooklyn Museum's "Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui" featuring the artist is the choice segment.

Thursday, May 9
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #164
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Alexei Ratmansky and the American Ballet Theatre's Spring Season is the feature/profile. The Museum of Arts and Design's "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design" is the choice segment.

Thursday, May 16
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #165
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paula Zahn's interview with Michael Mayer, director of The Metropolitan Opera's production of "Rigoletto," is the feature/profile. Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" at The Museum of Modern Art is the choice segment.

Thursday, May 23
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #166
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Career Transitions for Dancers is the feature/profile.

Thursday, May 30
8-8:30 p.m.
NYC-ARTS #167
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, both 2011 New York Emmy Award winners. Paula Zahn's interview with Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater, is the feature/profile.

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 Local Digital Initiatives: Joe Harrell.

NYC-ARTS is made possible in part by First Republic Bank. Funding for NYC-ARTS is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Jody and John Arnhold, 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.
Visit the NYC-ARTS Web site at NYC-ARTS.org for additional information.

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.

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.