Selected Events – Manhattan’s WestSide (06/09/13)

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Big Apple Barbecue Block Party
This annual food and music fest is a benefit for the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Madison Square Park, at Broadway and 23rd Street
From 11 a.m to 6 p.m., free, but food is $9 a plate
and drinks are $3 to $8.
(646) 747-0584 / bigapplebbq.org;

American Crafts Festival
This biannual display in Lincoln Center sponsored by the American Concern for Art and Craftsmanship — it also takes place in the fall — will fill Damrosch Park.
Damrosch Park, at 62nd Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, and Hearst Plaza, at 64th Street and Columbus Avenue, on Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. craftsatlincoln.org.

Wanderlust Yoga in the City
Sponsored by Wanderlust Festival, the event will feature yoga instruction and music, as well as speakers and workshops on related topics. This latest installment of free alfresco yoga and music — past events have taken place in San Francisco and Chicago — is from 1 to 6 p.m. at Pier 63 at Hudson River Park, at West 23rd Street; tinyurl.com/ks5umxn.

The Music of Shelly Manne
“After he graduated from the back of the band to the front, drummer-turned-leader Shelly Manne (1920-1984) was responsible for some of the most remarkable music of a remarkable era. This welcome celebration addresses as many aspects of Manne and his music as an hour allows, including the drummer’s historic, brief encounters with Sonny Rollins (“I’m an Old Cowhand”) and Bill Evans (“Danny Boy”) and his career-long collaboration with Andre Previn, which re-defined the jazz repertory by transforming contemporary show tunes into bebop.”  (WSJ-Friedwald)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Broadway at 60th Street, (212) 258-9595

“Top Italian Jazz at Birdland”
Enrico Rava Quintet: ‘Tribe’
“A well-named event, and as a festival it’s highly consistent—two of the three featured musicians are trumpeters, and all are veteran contemporary-jazz players associated with ECM Records. The only problem with this compact festival is that six nights is hardly time enough cover an entire country, especially one that’s been on the map of world jazz for close to 90 years.

The week, produced by Enzo Capua for the Umbria Jazz Festival, is book-ended by trumpeters: It began with the brilliantly lyrical duo of Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu and Philadelphian pianist Uri Caine and concludes Saturday and Sunday with Enrico Rava’s quintet. At 73, Signor Rava is one of the most celebrated trumpeters in the world, and it’s a sure bet that his latest album, “Rava on the Dance Floor,” a highly personal take on the music of Michael Jackson, won’t damage his popularity.” (WSJ-Friedwald)
Birdland
315 W. 44th St., (212) 581-3080 

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Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.
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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 
3 Museums (WestSide Manhattan & the BklynMuseum, easy via #2-3 subway) & 3 Chelsea Galleries :  ================================================================

‘Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store’ and ‘Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum, Ray Gun Wing’ (through Aug. 5)
‘Performing Histories (1)’ (through Aug. 5)
‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ (through Aug. 12)
Museum of Modern Art: 11 W 53rd St,
(212) 708-9400 / moma.org.
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‘A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial’ (through Sept. 8) 
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street,
(212) 857-0000 / icp.org
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Richard Serra: ‘Early Work’ (through June 15)
This terrific exhibition looks back on five formative years in the career of the world’s most admired sculptor. One room contains objects made of lead, rubber, wood and stone produced by basic procedures like cutting, folding and tearing. A second gallery features works made by propping up four-by-four-foot lead panels and a single slab of hot-rolled steel, eight feet tall and 24 feet long, that juts from a corner into the room with grand implacability. (Johnson-NYT)
David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street,
517-8677 / davidzwirner.com.

Rodney Graham (through June 15)
In four giant photographic transparencies mounted on lightboxes, the versatile Vancouver artist Mr. Graham ponders a man’s middle age with comical ennui. Each is a fictional self-portrait of the artist as a construction worker, a scientist, an aging punk and an old hippie in a kayak. They are funny and touching because of the disproportionate relationship between their grandiose scale and their goofy images, which resemble those of downbeat Father’s Day greeting cards. (Johnson-NYT)
303 Gallery, 507 West 24th Street,
255-1121, 303gallery.com.

Wolfgang Tillmans (through June 22)
The nomadic German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans addresses globalization in a curiously offhand way. This is true even in his latest works, which assert themselves more strongly as art objects thanks to Mr. Tillmans’s experiments with inkjet printing; they are lush and almost painterly in their rich concentrations of pigment. Only after connecting the dots of the installation — which moves from downtown Los Angeles to Kilimanjaro, a Masai hut to a construction site in Shanghai, a car headlight to a close-up of mold spores — do you sense transformation and upheaval.(Rosenberg-NYT)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street,
(212) 627-6000 / andrearosengallery.com.

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‘John Singer Sargent Watercolors’  (through July 28) [see review below]
‘Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui’ (through Aug. 4)
‘LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital’ (through Aug. 11)
Brooklyn Museum: 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park,
(718) 638-5000 / brooklynmuseum.org

John Singer Sargent Watercolors
“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)