Today’s “Fab Five” / Selected NYCity Events – MONDAY, July 22, 2013

TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE
“TROMBONE SHORTY, a.k.a. Troy Andrews, grew up in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans (and he’s appeared on the HBO series of the same name), and he favors a high-energy funk that brings the traditional music of his home town well into the twenty-first century. With the grooving sounds of SOULIVE.” (NewYorker Mag)
SUMMERSTAGE, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, mid-Park at 69th St.
At 6PM / $40
212-360-2777 / www.summerstage.org

JOSÉ FELICIANO 
“Which version of “Light My Fire” would you rather hear these days, the Doors’ or Feliciano’s? The phenomenally talented singer and guitar player is sure to pull that jam out here.” (NewYorker Mag)
IRIDIUM, 1650 Broadway, at 51st St.
At 8 and 10 PM / $30
212-582-2121 / theiridium.com/

Pilobolus (through Aug. 4)
“Any evening with Pilobolus is like a magic show, with bodies balancing and contorting in seemingly impossible ways. In “esc,” a New York premiere in the first of two programs at the Joyce, the troupe joins forces with Penn & Teller, combining its own corporeal stunts with the duo’s Houdini-inspired exploits. Program B features another new work, “Licks,” in which the frequent Pilobolus collaborator Trish Sie envisions a zany world for 6 dancers, 12 ropes and a rollicking soundtrack by Tijuana’s Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible.” (Burke-NYT)
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea,
at 7:30 p.m. / $10 to $75.
(212) 242-0800 / joyce.org

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)
(212) 581-3080 / birdlandjazz.com

Fun. and Tegan and Sara* (Monday and Tuesday)
“Fun.’s ubiquitous “We Are Young” is serious business: one of last year’s top-selling singles and a Grammy winner for song of the year. This New York power-pop trio’s second studio album, “Some Nights” (Fueled by Ramen), on which that track appears, wraps emo-rock squirming in Queen’s theatricality. The band will appear here with the inventive twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin, who cast aside their usual stylishly produced folk-rock gravity on their recent electro-pop album, “Heartthrob” (Sire).” (Anderson-NYT)
Pier 26 at Hudson River Park, enter at North Moore and West St.
At 7 p.m. / SOLD OUT (try the secondary market for this one)
bowerypresents.com

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 07/20 and 07/18.