Today’s “Fab Five” / Selected NYCity Events – TUESDAY, July 16, 2013

The All-Star Game will be played tonight at sold out Citi Field, home of the Mets. The Mets have not hosted the game since 1964. Their ace, Matt Harvey, will be the starting pitcher and their stellar third baseman, David Wright, will bat cleanup for the National League All-Stars. Find someplace cool to watch the game.

‘Back Tomorrow: Federico Garcia Lorca/Poet in New York’ (through July 20)
Lorca is considered Spain’s greatest modern poet and playwright. This exhibition highlights the poet’s career and includes manuscripts, drawings, photographs and personal items. The focus is on his “Poet in New York”.

In 1936, the poet left the manuscript of “Poet in New York” on the desk of his Madrid publisher with a note saying he would be “back tomorrow,” probably to discuss final details. He never returned.

Weeks later, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was brutally murdered by fascist elements in Granada, his body thrown into an unmarked mass grave.
New York Public Library, 42nd St. And 5th Ave.
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m./ FREE
(this is also a great place to beat the heat – maximum A/C)
(917) 275-6975 / nypl.org/events/exhibitions.

On Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work
Celebrate Maurice Sendak’s life and career with noted children’s book historian Leonard S. Marcus and artists Paul Zelinsky, Peter Sis, Rick Meyerowitz and Etienne Delessert.

This program is in conjunction with The Society of Illustrators exhibition, Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, on view in New York, Jun 11- Aug 17 and accompanying catalog.
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St, Lecture Hall
At 7 pm / $15
(212) 415-5500 / 92y.org/Tribeca

Joel Harrison 19: ‘Infinite Possibility’
“Joel Harrison has gone the Full Monty: The accomplished guitarist and composer’s new release (being premiered at Dizzy’s) is an ambitious, six-part extended work for guitar and 19-piece orchestra. The general trajectory of the piece—its through-composed nature, as opposed to traditional song form—will remind some listeners of Maria Schneider, and the use of a vocalist doing an original text in an unusual form will also bring to mind Fred Hersch’s “My Coma Dreams.” But overall, the texture that Mr. Harrison gets from the ensemble—which features six reeds and saxophones plus JaLC’s Seneca Black on trumpet and a rhythm section that switches between acoustic and electronic implements—is uniquely his own.” (WSJ)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway
at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. / $35 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 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. 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.

‘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, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

“New Harmony: Abstraction Between the Wars, 1919-1939” (through Sept. 8)
“Aten Reign” (through Sept. 25)
the centerpiece of James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980, recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light. {see review below}
Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.

Light and color wash the Rotunda. 
“Turrell works in a single medium: light. He has sliced into walls, designed seamless rooms with holes in the ceiling, and spent four decades building a giant naked-eye observatory in the Arizona desert—all to provide unexpectedly intimate and mysterious views of the sky, the sun, and the stars. For this segment of a three-part show running concurrently in L.A. and Houston, he’s turned the museum’s atrium into a giant light box. —J.D.” (NYMag)

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Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Ten museums can be found along this section of Fifth Avenue:
• 110th Street – Museum for African Art
• 105th Street – El Museo del Barrio
• 103rd Street – Museum of the City of New York
• 92nd Street – The Jewish Museum
• 91st Street –  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• 89th Street – National Academy Museum
• 88th Street – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• 86th Street – Neue Galerie New York
• 83rd Street – Goethe-Institut
• 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Additionally, though technically not part of the Museum Mile, the Frick Collection on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 70th St. and the The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Ave and 37th St are also located near Fifth Ave. Now plan your own museum crawl.
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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar: “NYCity Events: Manhattan’s WestSide” dated 07/14 and 07/12.