Guild Hall will kick off Labor Day Weekend with a performance by an acclaimed concert pianist, continue with a chat between art world luminaries, and conclude with a silent disco dance party.
Dame Marina Arsenijevic, who has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Chicago Symphony Center, and the Toronto Center for the Arts, will add Guild Hall to her resumé tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The multimedia concert will benefit Life’s WORC, a nonprofit that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A composer as well as a pianist, Arsenijevic starred in the Emmy Award-nominated PBS program “Marina at West Point: Unity Through Diversity,” a 2010 performance that celebrated this country’s diversity and was performed with the 120-member West Point Band and the West Point Cadet Glee Club. In Serbia, she was awarded that country’s highest diplomatic honor, Knight of the St. Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism.
The centerpiece of the program, which will range from classical works to original compositions, is the New York premiere of her composition “Tesla Rhapsody,” a symphonic work combining piano, digital orchestra, and video storytelling, in the first musical and piano work honoring the scientist Nikola Tesla.
Tickets are $104, $151, and $191 for tier one seats, which include a post-show reception with Arsenijevic.
Glenn Fuhrman, a collector, philanthropist, and founder of the FLAG Art Foundation, and Jeff Koons, a prominent artist known for transforming everyday images and objects into engaging works of art, will have a conversation about their careers on Sunday at noon in a program presented with BookHampton.
The event’s point of departure will be Fuhrman’s recent book “Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection,” published in May by the Monacelli Press. The book includes a conversation among Fuhrman, Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Simone Leigh, an artist.
Fuhrman and Koons will reflect on their careers, consider the evolution of artistic practice and collecting and the impulses behind building a collection, and the relationship that develops among collectors, artists, and their work.
Among the artists featured in the book, in addition to Koons and Leigh, are Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Serra, to name only a few.
A book sale and signing will follow the discussion. Tickets are $40.
What would Labor Day weekend be without a silent disco party in Guild Hall’s garden? Set for Sunday from 8 to 11 p.m., the evening will include sets from D.J.s Mister Lama, Divina, and Schvitz-a-Lot.
Tickets are $25. Wine, beer, cocktails, and snacks will be available for purchase from Louise and Howie’s coffee cart.
