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School of Visual Arts Acquires Chelsea TheaterSchool of Visual Arts (SVA) has signed a 26-year lease for a 20,000 square-foot theater at 333 West 23rd Street, formerly known as the Chelsea West Cinemas.
With separate auditoriums of 350 and 550 seats, the building is to be the site of lectures, film screenings and other public events as well as class meetings.
Celebrated designer and SVA Acting Chairman Milton Glaser, who created the graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center and the graphic program of the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, will design both the interior and exterior.
Film historian and longtime faculty member Gene Stavis has been appointed director.
Stavis is the former American representative of Henri Langlois, the Oscar-winning creator of the Cinémathèque Francaise.
"SVA is, first and foremost, a place where creative people can come together and learn from one another.
We want to be sure that we have adequate resources to do that well into the future," said SVA President David Rhodes.
SVA officials have increasingly sought to make strategic real estate acquisitions to match historic growth in all aspects of the College's operations.
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