Top Events / WestSide 04/13

Diana Krall
Beacon Theater
8 p.m., $75-$125
2124 Broadway, (btw W 74th and 75th Streets)
(212) 465-6500, beacontheatre.com

““Glad Rag Doll” (Verve), the most recent album by Diana Krall, is on one hand a nifty bit of pop archaeology, consisting of songs culled mostly from the ’20s and ’30s. It’s also a shrewd image tweak for Ms. Krall, with its dusty T Bone Burnett sound and its Ziegfeld Follies style. All of which bodes well for this stop on her current tour”. — NATE CHINEN, NYT

Gerald Clayton Trio
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Avenue South, at West 11th Street
at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

“Gerald Clayton, a pianist of great touch and soulful exposition, just released “Life Forum” (Concord Jazz), an album ambitious in concept and texture, with a clear emphasis on his designs as a composer-bandleader. At the heart of the album is the excellent working trio he presents here, featuring the bassist Joe Sanders and the drummer Justin Brown”. — (NATE CHINEN, NYT)

Richard Galliano-Christian Howes Quintet
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 
Broadway, at West 60th Street
April 16-21 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
$30 to $45 cover, with a $10 minimum
(212) 258-9595, jalc.org

“The energetic violinist Christian Howes has a new album, “Southern Exposure” (Resonance), featuring Richard Galliano, the celebrated French accordionist, as a special guest. They revisit that terrain —  playing music inspired by a wealth of South American traditions —  in this run, with Josh Nelson on piano, George Delancey on bass and Cedric Easton on drums”. — (NATE CHINEN, NYT)

New York Public Library: ‘100 Years of Flamenco in New York’
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway, btw W 62nd and 65th Streets
at 6 p.m., a screening and discussion, FREE
(917) 275-6975, nypl.org/lpa

“This exhibition traces the popularity of the dance form in the city, from the mid-1800s to the present, through engravings and photographs, printed materials, costume pieces and films and recordings. On April 15 at 6 p.m., a special event will include a film screening and a discussion with Deirdre Towers, a dance historian; Robert Browning, founding director of the World Music Institute; the dancers Maria Benitez and Jorge Navarro; and Clara Aich, a filmmaker.  — ANNE MANCUSO”, NYT

Havana Film Festival New York
Directors Guild Theater, 110 West 57th Street, btw 7th/6th ave
at various times, $11 for a single screening, $40 for a day pass
hffny.com

‘This festival — the 14th — will feature screenings of more than 40 films highlighting Latino culture, as well lectures and other events, at locations around the city. Opening the festival on Friday at 6:30 p.m. is “Amor Cronico,” a 2012 documentary by the director Jorge Perugorría about the Cuban concert tour of the Cuban-American singer CuCu Diamantes. The screening will take place at the Directors Guild Theater and will be followed by a reception at the Iguana Night Club, 240 West 54th Street, Manhattan. Some of the other venues include the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, and Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria, Queens. A full schedule is at hffny.com. — ANNE MANCUSO’, NYT

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 3 Museums & Galleries: 
(WestSide Manhattan & Brooklyn via #2-3 subway)

‘Edvard Munch: The Scream’ (through April 29)
‘Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi’ (through May 6)
‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ (through Aug. 12)
Museum of Modern Art:11 W 53rd St,
(212) 708-9400 / moma.org.

John Singer Sargent Watercolors
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park
718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org

“The exhibition brings together 93 of his watercolors and 9 oil paintings from the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Both institutions acquired significant quantities of his work early on, the Brooklyn Museum from Sargent’s career debut show in New York in 1909 and the Boston museum from a solo show there in 1912.

The beauty of Sargent’s watercolors is in how seemingly effortlessly yet exactly he captured outdoor light and complicated man-made and natural forms. In landscapes, close studies of fruit and flowers and portraits of women you see at once the supremely deft action of the brush and the illusions of a sun-drenched halcyon world that it conjures. Prepare for bedazzlement. (KEN JOHNSON) NYT”