Selected Events – June 07, 2013

Here’s the place to find today’s selected events. For other useful event info be sure to check out “Notable Events-June” , “on Broadway”  and “Top10 Free” in the header above. For DIY trip planning see “Resources” and “Smart Stuff” in the header above.

‘All Lit Up: Times Square at Night’
This nighttime tour sponsored by the Municipal Art Society covers the transformation of the area over the last few years and the history of the billboards and lighted advertisements that are so much a part of it. It meets at 10:30 p.m., with the meeting place given with reservations, (212) 935-2075, mas.org/programs; $20, $15 for members. An additional treat: “Surfacing,” a video installation by Neil Goldberg, will be projected on various screens in Times Squares each night this month, beginning just before midnight. The installation is part of a project sponsored by the Times Square Advertising Coalition and Times Square Arts; timessquarenyc.org/midnightmoment.

Q-Tip D.J. Set
The One Step Beyond dance party in the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History is a selectively educational endeavor: guests are free to read every factoid on the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, or simply spill beer on them. Regardless, it’s a truly exceptional party best enjoyed in the company of farsighted D.J.s; this month’s guest turntablists, Q-Tip and Nickodemus, qualify. (Anderson-NYT)
American Museum of Natural History, enter via the Weston Pavilion, Columbus Avenue at 79th Street, (212) 769-5200, amnh.org/osb; At 9 p.m., / $30.

Rioult Dance NY
Pascal Rioult, who danced for Martha Graham for many years, creates works that are slightly reminiscent of her heroic style, but infused also with the pliant danciness of Jiri Kylian. Mr. Rioult has choreographed several whole evenings to the work of one composer (Mozart, Bach, Ravel), but the Joyce season contains more mixed fare, with a new work, “Iphigenia,” set to live music by Michael Torke, alongside “Prelude to Night” and “Bolero,” both to Ravel, and “On Distant Shores,” to a score by Aaron Jay Kernis. (Sulcas-NYT)
JOYCE THEATER, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea,
Friday at 8 p.m./ $10 to $49.
(212) 242-0800 / joyce.org

Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri
The pianist Lucian Ban and the violist Mat Maneri have a lovely and restive new album on ECM — “Transylvanian Concert,” recorded in Mr. Ban’s native land — that reveals their shared interest in enfolding mystery. They are the featured performers at the first of three consecutive Friday showcases for ECM at the Rubin Museum of Art. (Nate Chinen-NYT)
Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea
At 7 p.m.,$20, $16.20 for members.
(212) 620-5000 / rmanyc.org

Kenny Barron Quintet*
Kenny Barron is the leading practitioner of an elegant, economical and sure-footed piano style that thrives in any mainstream setting. For this engagement his band mates are the trumpeter Brandon Lee, the saxophonist Vincent Herring, the bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and the drummer Lee Pearson. (Chinen-NYT)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.,$25 cover, with a one-drink minimum.
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com;

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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 3 MUSEUMS:
(Museum Mile & other Fifth Avenue area Museums)

‘Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney’ (through Sept. 2)
Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th st
(212) 685-0008 / themorgan.org.

‘Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich’ (through July 7)
‘Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena’ (through July 14) 
‘At War With the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston’ (through July 28) 
‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ (through Aug. 14)
“African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde” (through Sept. 2)
‘The Civil War and American Art’ (through Sept. 2)
‘Photography and the American Civil War’ (through Sept. 2)
‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi’ (through Nov. 3)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave,@ 82nd street
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

“New Harmony: Abstraction Between the Wars, 1919-1939” (through Sept. 8)
Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.