Selected West Side Events – Monday, Jun. 17, 2013

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Joan Baez and Indigo Girls
Singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez performs at SummerStage festival series in central Park with folk-rock duo Indigo Girls. For more info, visit cityparksfoundation.org.
Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street
at 7pm. / may be sold out – try the secondary market.
summerstage.org

Bad News! i was there… by JoAnne Akalaitis
Acclaimed American theatre director JoAnne Akalaitis welcomes audiences into her creative process with this staged reading of her newest piece Bad News!. Stitching together messenger speeches from classic plays, Akalaitis and her guest performers explore the role these deliverers of information have played in the evolution of the dramatic moment.
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Literature/Spoken Word, Theatre
at 6:30pm / Co-presented with Poets House

American Ballet Theater*
“Of all the roles in the classical repertory, there are few that test a ballerina’s technical strength and dramatic range like Odette/Odile in “Swan Lake.”  The opening-night cast (on Monday) is led by Polina Semionova, David Hallberg and Marcelo Gomes.” (Burke-NYT)
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
at 7:30 p.m. / $20 to $245.
212-362-6000 / abt.org

Night of a Thousand Judys
Hello Yellow Brick Road! A year ago, the Night of a Thousand Judys concert (to benefit the Ali Forney Center) was among the most rambunctious, uproarious, unpredictable all-star concerts of 2012. This year, for the third annual edition, the love for La Garland is even more palpable and the lineup more celestial. Stars are drawn from the worlds of pop music (Madeleine Peyroux), Broadway (Christiane Noll, Carolee Carmello and Nancy Anderson, who is somehow also singing in the Cutting Room’s Jimmy Van Heusen tribute on Monday) and cabaret (Maude Maggart, Molly Pope), and features a pair of exceptionally entertaining genre benders in Justin Vivian Bond and Lea DeLaria.

Last year, the centerpiece was “Toto’s Tale,” by host Justin Sayre, a wickedly affectionate parody of “The Wizard of Oz” that would be worth spending a night in the Emerald City dungeon to see again. (WSJ)
Merkin Concert Hall (Kaufman Music Center)
129 W. 67th St., (212) 501-3330

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party
Broadway impresario Jim Caruso hosts a combination open-mic, networking event and party in which the biggest stars on Broadway relax on their night off by performing their favorite songs in an informal setting.
Birdland – 315 West 44th St (Btw 8th/9th ave)
9:30 pm / $20

Moutin Reunion Quartet 
“The brothers François and Louis Moutin, a bassist and a drummer, lead this dynamic trans-Atlantic postbop ensemble; the other half consists of the tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza and the pianist Jean-Michel Pilc.” (Chinen-NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway,
at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., $25 cover, with a $10 minimum.
212-258-9595 / jalc.org

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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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‘Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety’ (through June 29)
“An impressive three-part display of new work (mostly from 2012) reveals a seasoned artist who is doing some of his boldest work. Some introduce new forms (but are actually derived from his early collages). Others expand on more recent works with changes in material and color. Keep an eye out for “Black Form II,” “Yellow Relief Over Blue,” “Gold With Orange Reliefs” and the four-panel “Curves on White.” (Smith-NYT)
Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street
(212) 243-0200 / matthewmarks.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.

Marc Quinn: ‘All the Time in the World’ (through June 29)
Four much enlarged, bronze sculptures of seashells made by high-tech 3-D replication seem, at first, like pointless baubles for rich collectors. But they reveal an unexpected inner beauty both literal and metaphorical, as their polished interiors cause their interiors to warmly glow as if supernaturally illuminated from within. Implicitly vaginal, these seeming products of phallic ambition become objects of oceanic, feminine mystery.” (Johnson)
Mary Boone, 541 West 24th Street
752-2929 / maryboonegallery.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)