Park Avenue Armory’s Presidentship Named By Adam R. Flatto

Park Avenue Armory has introduced the naming of the establishment’s presidency place of President and Government Producer, made doable by a beneficiant donation from Board of Administrators Co-Chair Adam R. Flatto.

This main present honors the expansion and success of the Armory as a cultural establishment supporting unconventional work by world class artists that can not be mounted elsewhere in New York. It additionally honors the contribution of Rebecca Robertson, the founding President and Government Producer since 2006. Flatto has been a strategic accomplice and champion of the group because the early years of the establishment’s founding. He joined the Board of Administrators in 2007, and joined Elihu Rose as Co-Chair in 2013. Since 2019, Flatto has served because the Co-Chair of the Board with Amanda Riegel.

In recognition of this beneficiant gift-$1-million, which can present essential help for the Armory’s common working bills over 5 years-the position of President has been renamed the Adam R. Flatto President for that interval.

Adam R. Flatto commented, “It’s a nice pleasure and honor to help Park Avenue Armory, an establishment whose mission is extremely essential to me. My continued help, each as an avid attendee of our epic creative packages and as Board Co-Chair, is supposed to present all New Yorkers entry to epic and unconventional performing and visible arts productions. The present additionally acknowledges Rebecca’s pivotal position in conceptualizing and spearheading the transformation of the historic Armory constructing into an adventurous, sudden, and far acclaimed non-profit arts establishment. I’m very happy with the success this once-new establishment has achieved.”

Amanda Riegel, Co-Chair of the Armory Board of Administrators, stated, “We’re immensely grateful to Adam for this exceptional present, which helps make sure the Armory’s robust strategic management for years to come back. His continued help allows the establishment to proceed the position of filling a vital void within the ecology of New York Metropolis.”

Rebecca Robertson, the Adam R. Flatto President and Government Producer, stated: “Adam has performed a big position within the improvement and success of the Armory by his smart counsel, his management and his constant championing of the establishment. This latest contribution is yet one more instance of his generosity and dedication.”

ABOUT ADAM R. FLATTO

Adam R. Flatto is the President and Chief Government Officer of The Georgetown Firm and oversees all the agency’s actions. In his greater than 30 years with Georgetown, Flatto has been concerned with the event, acquisition, and possession of over 20 million sq. toes of business and residential actual property tasks all through the US.

A local New Yorker, Flatto is dedicated to advancing the work of civic and cultural organizations in his neighborhood. Along with his stewardship on the Armory, Flatto serves as Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Robin Hood Basis; Chairman of the Board of the Heart for World Danger and Safety on the RAND Company in Santa Monica, California; trustee of The Wexner Heart for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and of Works & Course of primarily based on the Guggenheim Museum in New York Metropolis; and Chairman of the Board of The World Round primarily based in New York Metropolis.

Flatto is a director of The Howard Hughes Company (NYSE: HHC) and a member of the Council on International Relations. He was honored in 2015 by the Residents Union of the Metropolis of New York with its Enterprise Management Award and in 2022, obtained the James Rouse Civic Medal of Honor from Enterprise Neighborhood Companions. Flatto obtained his BA in Economics magna cum laude from Brown College with honors and obtained his MBA from the Wharton College (College of Pennsylvania).

ABOUT REBECCA ROBERTSON

A visionary city planner and activist, Rebecca Robertson started working intently with co-founders Wade Thompson and Elihu Rose in 1996, growing the imaginative and prescient to repurpose the historic Seventh Regiment Armory as a brand new non-profit cultural heart and securing a 99-year lease with state of New York. She has served as Founding President and Government Producer since 2006, spearheading the continuing revitalization and transformation of the historic Armory constructing right into a non-profit cultural establishment.

Robertson has superior Park Avenue Armory’s mission, permitting the general public to expertise epic and adventurous artistic endeavors that can not be mounted in conventional efficiency halls and museums. Beneath Robertson’s management, the Armory has garnered vital and common popularity of epic, unconventional productions within the performing and visible arts; provided public programming, recital, and up to date efficiency sequence within the historic rooms; and developed an arts training program that serves greater than 5,000 college students from under-resourced New York Metropolis public colleges.

From 2000 by 2006, Robertson served as Government Director of Lincoln Heart Redevelopment, the $1.4-billion redevelopment of the cultural heart as a 24/7 clear and accessible campus with state-of-the-art services. Previous to that, she headed Particular Initiatives on the Shubert Group, Broadway’s largest theater proprietor. Between 1987 and 1997, Robertson was President of the forty second Avenue Improvement Venture, the State entity that re-planned and redeveloped forty second Avenue between Seventh and Broadway from “the sleaziest block in America” (based on Rolling Stone) right into a 13-acre vibrant mixed-use space with places of work, leisure, a number of restored historic theaters, rehearsal house, and large lights and indicators. She additionally served as a lecturer on the Harvard Graduate College of Design.

ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Half palace, half industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory helps unconventional works within the performing and visible arts that can not be totally realized in a conventional proscenium theater, live performance corridor, or white wall gallery. With its hovering 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Corridor-reminiscent of Nineteenth-century European practice stations-and an array of exuberant interval rooms, the Armory supplies a platform for artists to push the boundaries of their follow, collaborate throughout disciplines, and create new work in dialogue with the historic constructing. Throughout its grand and intimate areas, the Armory allows a various vary of artists to create, college students to discover, and audiences to expertise epic, adventurous, related work that can not be accomplished elsewhere in New York.

The Armory each commissions and presents performances and installations within the grand Drill Corridor and provides extra intimate programming by its acclaimed Recital Sequence, which showcases musical expertise from throughout the globe throughout the salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; its Artists Studio sequence curated by Jason Moran within the restored Veterans Room; Making House on the Armory, a public programming sequence that brings collectively a discipline-spanning group of artists and cultural thought-leaders across the essential problems with our time; and the Malkin Lecture Sequence that options shows by students and writers on matters associated to Park Avenue Armory and its historical past. As well as, the Armory additionally has a year-round Artists-in-Residence program, offering house and help for artists to create new work and broaden their practices.

Programmatic highlights embrace Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino, a magical labyrinth prolonged throughout the Drill Corridor; Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s harrowing Die Soldaten by which the viewers actually moved by the music; the occasion of a thread, a site-specific set up by Ann Hamilton; the ultimate performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Firm on three separate phases; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath with Kenneth Branagh; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental set up of fantasy, extra, and dystopia; a radically inclusive staging of Bach’s St. Matthew Ardour staged by Peter Sellars and carried out by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; eight-time Drama Desk-nominated play The Bushy Ape, directed by Richard Jones and starring Bobby Cannavale; Hansel & Gretel, a fee of Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron that explored publicly shared house within the period of surveillance; Simon Stone’s heralded manufacturing of Yerma starring Billie Piper in her North American debut; The Let Go, a site-specific immersive dance celebration by Nick Cave; Satoshi Miyagi’s beautiful manufacturing of Antigone set in a river; Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed manufacturing of The Lehman Trilogy; the Black Artists Retreat hosted by Theaster Gates, which included public talks and performances, personal periods for the 300 attending artists, and a curler skating rink; Social Distance Corridor, a fee sequence that includes work by David Byrne, Steven Hoggett, Christine Jones, Invoice T. Jones, Laurie Anderson, Jason Moran and Robert Icke; The Form of Issues, a multimedia exhibition and convening created by Carrie Mae Weems; Rashaad Newsome’s Meeting, an experiential work which reworked the Drill Corridor into an exhibition house, efficiency corridor, and classroom; and Monochromatic Gentle (Afterlife), that includes the musical composition by Tyshawn Sorey, ritualized by Peter Sellars with works by celebrated visible artist Julie Mehretu and choreography by flex pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Grey.

The Armory’s creativity-based arts teaching programs present entry to the humanities to 1000’s of scholars from underserved New York Metropolis public colleges, partaking them with the establishment’s creative programming and outside-the-box inventive processes. By means of its training initiatives, the Armory supplies entry to all Drill Corridor performances, workshops taught by Grasp Educating Artists, and in-depth residencies that help the colleges’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid internship program, begins in highschool and continues into the vital post-high faculty years, offering interns with mentored employment, job coaching, and talent improvement, in addition to a community of friends and mentors to help their particular person school and profession targets.

The Armory is present process a multi-phase renovation and restoration of its historic constructing led by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Government Architects.

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