With an emphasis on commissioned works, site-specific installations and premieres, Arts Brookfield is the largest year-round, free performing arts and cultural presenter on the East coast.
Arts Brookfield in the News
Brookfield Place’s Holiday Lights Wow NYC
New York’s most spectacular new holiday lighting display is wowing crowds – and the media – at the Brookfield Place Winter Garden.
Read More →Theatre for One in NY Times, New Yorker, AP
Arts Brookfield’s presentation of I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am, a collection of six new five-minute plays.
Read More →Sharon Jones Rocks Lowdown Hudson Blues
The New Yorker previewed this week’s Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at Brookfield Place Plaza.
Read More →Global Beat Fest in New York Times
Today’s New York Times features a wonderful review of DakhaBrakha and Poor Rich Boy at the closing night of the Global Beat Festival.
Read More →Canstruction Charms NYC
Canstruction, the world’s coolest art competition and food drive, once again transformed Brookfield Place into pop art wonderland.
Read More →Lowdown rises with B.B. King, Los Lobos
The third annual Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at Brookfield Place featured two days of free music with the legendary B.B. King.
Read More →Major feature on Arts Brookfield in NY Times
PKPR secured a front page Arts section feature on our longtime client Arts Brookfield – an in-depth piece by culture reporter Allan Kozinn.
Read More →Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival hits NYC, Letterman
Arts Brookfield’s second annual Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival, with headliners Buddy Guy and Neko Case, had an estimated of 20,000 attendees.
Read More →From the White House to Lowdown Hudson Blues
Blues legend Buddy Guy will join celebrated chanteuse Neko Case to headline a free two-day blues music festival in Lower Manhattan.
Read More →Silent Films/Live Music at World Financial Center
Arts Brookfield at World Financial Center shined a spotlight on the modern master of archival and experimental film.
Read More →Canstruction NYC Makes National Headlines
For the second year in a row, PKPR handled publicity for Canstruction, the annual design competition which helps feed hungry New Yorkers during Thanksgiving.
Read More →Jules Feiffer Celebrated at World Financial Center
Jules Feiffer’s was celebrated by Arts World Financial Center in a series of special events during River To River Festival.
Read More →Tweets, Texts, and Theater
In “The Attendants” by The Nerve Tank, audience members were invited to send text messages and tweets to influence the actions of two performers.
Read More →The Rover “roves” the World Financial Center
The sound of Carnival carousing and swordfights filled the World Financial Center this March when it presented a production of The Rover.
Read More →New York Times: A Musical About Robert Moses?
Highlights from a forthcoming full-length musical exploring the controversial life and legacy of urban planner Robert Moses.
Read More →Canstruction Dazzles NYC
Over 100,000 full cans of food were transformed into epic eye candy when they were assembled into fanciful, mind-boggling sculptures.
Read More →Shepard Fairey Mural at World Financial Center
Celebrated artist Shepard Fairey guided more than 100 young New Yorkers in creating a powerful 40-foot long mural that just made its public debut.
Read More →Chopin Festival Garners Worldwide Coverage
To celebrate Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday on March 1st, Arts World Financial Center mounted one of the most ambitious tributes in the world.
Read More →Hamlet in the New York Times
As featured in today’s New York Times, the bustling World Financial Center will be transformed into Elsinore Castle next month.
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