Laurie Anderson Curator of Upcoming NY Live Arts Festival

Laurie Anderson will serve as curator for the “Live Ideas” festival of New York Live Arts beginning Wednesday.

Working with Bill T. Jones, the artistic director of New York Live Arts, they have developed a program of musical performances, lectures, dance works, panels, film screenings, and other events over a five-day period ending on Sunday.

Highlights will include “Arvo Pärt: Journeys in Silence,” a day-long immersion, through music, lectures, and film, into the work of this influential composer; a performance by Beth Gill with a work in progress presented by Ms. Anderson in collaboration with Deborah Hay; a sound installation by Lou Reed along with a panel discussion of it; a screening of Julian Schnabel’s “Before Night Falls,” among many others.

Tickets and information are here.