Today’s “Fab Five” / Selected NYCity Events – MONDAY, July 01, 2013
For other useful and curated NYCity event info for Manhattan’s WestSide be sure to check out :
“Notable Events-June”, “on Broadway”, and “Top10 Free” in the header above.
For NYCity trip planning see links in “Resources” and “Smart Stuff” in the header above.
Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence (Monday through Wednesday) Two historic documents rarely displayed in public — an original copy of the Bill of Rights and a copy of the Declaration of Independence handwritten by Thomas Jefferson — will be on view at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The documents are from the library’s manuscripts and archives division, and can be viewed Monday, noon to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (917) 275-6975, nypl.org.
Grantland Quarterly No. 6 – 2013
I read Grantland regularly. It has some great writing, maybe the best sports writing online. Here’s what TONY says about tonight’s event:
“Sports and culture criticism website Grantland collects its favorite pieces four times a year and publishes them on paper with some nice binding. Tonight, writers Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, Hua Hsu, Rafe Bartholomew and Andy Greenwald read their contributions, and audience members can snap up a copy of volume six.” (TONY)
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St, Soho
subway: #1,2,3 to TimesSquare, transfer to N/R to Prince St.
walk 1 blk E to Crosby; 1 blk N to bookstore
At 7pm / FREE
212-334-3324 / housingworksbookstore.org
Maria Neckam
“Ms. Neckam, a jazz singer of composure and purpose, draws partly from her rewarding recent album, “Unison” (Sunnyside), leading a trio with Sam Harris on keyboards and Mike Moreno on guitar.” (Chinen-NYT)
Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal Street, near West Third Street,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. / $12 cover, with a one-drink minimum.
(212) 529-5945 / lalanternacaffe.com, marianeckam.com
Death*
The all-black Detroit trio DEATH was omitted from the official history of punk rock until very recently, but the release, four years ago, of its raw and angular 1974 recordings, under the title “. . . For the Whole World to See,” complicates the genre’s authorized time line.
As teen-agers in the early seventies, the three brothers in the band, Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney, switched from playing R. & B. and funk to cranking out hard-driving, politically aware songs that built on the music of Michigan proto-punk legends the MC5 and the Stooges.
…Discouraged by the negative reaction to their name, the brothers folded the band around 1976. They started making gospel-rock records as the 4th Movement, and they relocated to Vermont, where Death’s visionary tapes were stored. David died in 2000; Bobbie Duncan, an R. & B. session guitarist and friend of the family, fills in for him. A new documentary about the group, “A Band Called Death,” detailing its fascinating and curious history, plays this week at Cinema Village.” (NewYorker)
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street,
at 8 p.m. / $20 in advance, $22 at the door.
(212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party
Broadway impresario Jim Caruso hosts a combination open-mic, networking event and party, where on some nights you may hear the biggest stars on Broadway relax on their night off by performing their favorite songs in an informal setting. Always fun.
Birdland – 315 West 44th St (Btw 8th/9th ave)
9:30 pm / $20 (includes a drink if you sit at the bar, which are not bad seats)
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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) ==========================================================
‘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)
‘Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series’ (through Sept. 8)
Museum of Modern Art: 11 W 53rd St,
(212) 708-9400 / moma.org.
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‘Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design’* (through Sept. 15)
Museum of Arts and Design: 2 Columbus Circle,
299-7777, madmuseum.org.
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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)
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