Selected West Side Events – Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013

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‘100 Years of Flamenco in New York’
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.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
111 Amsterdam Avenue, at 65th Street, Lincoln Center,
from noon to 8 p.m. / FREE,
275-6975 / nypl.org/lpa

Liao Yiwu
Live From the NYPL closes its spring season of talks with a discussion with this Chinese writer and dissident. Mr. Liao’s memoir of his four years of imprisonment in a Chinese jail, “For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison,” was released in English this month by Harvest Books. Paul Holdengräber, director of public programs at the library, will lead the discussion. Mr. Liao, who learned to play the flute in prison, will also perform.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5thAvenue and 42nd St
at 7 p.m. / $25, $15 for students, 60+ and Friends of the Library.
(917) 930-0855 / nypl.org/live

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Since stepping in as artistic director in 2011, Robert Battle has made some welcome additions to the repertory, which will get plenty of visibility as the company comes to Lincoln Center for the first time since 2000. This is a good chance to catch up on those newly acquired works, like Ohad Naharin’s audience-interactive “Minus 16” and Ronald K. Brown’s exhilarating “Grace.” Mr. Brown also offers a world premiere, “Four Corners,” featuring Matthew Rushing, a celebrated company member of 20 years. There will be some newcomers in the cast too — the recently hired Jeroboam Bozeman, Fana Tesfagiorgis and Elisa Clark.” (Siobhan Burke-NYT)
K Ballet Theater @ Lincoln Center
at 7:30 p.m. / $25 to $135
(212) 496-0600 / alvinailey.org

Buika*
The music of this dynamic Afro-Spanish singer, who was a highlight of Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, “The Skin I Live In,” draws on a range of influences, including jazz, flamenco, pop and African polyrhythm. Her 2009 collaboration with Chucho Valdés, “El Último Trago” (“The Last Drink”), won the Latin Grammy for best traditional tropical album in 2010; her latest CD, “La Noche Más Larga” (Warner Music Latina), a combination of covers and new songs, was released on Tuesday. (Nicole Herrington-NYT)
Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street
At 8 p.m. / $57 to $77.
(800) 982-2787 / the-townhall-nyc.org

Kenny Werner Quintet
The pianist-composer Kenny Werner has found myriad ways to finesse a small-group palette in recent years, and this ensemble gives him two exceptionally bright elements to work with, in the West African guitarist Lionel Loueke and the Puerto Rican alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón. They appear as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. (Chinen-NYT)
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village,
at 8 and 10:30 p.m., $35 cover at tables, with a $5 minimum; $20 at the bar, with a one-drink minimum.
(212) 475-8592 / bluenote.net

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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 & the BklynMuseum) & 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, (easy ride from midtown on #2 or #3 subway to Eastern Pkway/Bklyn Museum)
(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)