Today’s “Fab Five” / Selected NYCity Events – SUNDAY, July 28, 2013

NYCity Poetry Festival
“The 3rd Annual New York City Poetry Festival will be held on Governors Island’s Colonel’s Row on July 27th and 28th, 2013. The Poetry Society of New York will once again invite New Yorkers to come together for this two day festival to celebrate NYC’s vibrant poetry community.

The event will include over 50 poetry organizations and 200 poets on its three stages; a Vendor’s Village where local booksellers, artists and craftmakers will sell their wares; the 3rd annual Ring of Daisies open mic; The Poetry Brothel tent; a boozy area sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery; healthy and delicious food options; a spontaneous generation house where we’ll be writing collaborative poems; and, of course, the Children’s Festival at NYCPF, this year sponsored by Writopia!”
Governors Island
From 11am-5pm / FREE ($10 suggested donation)
212-825-3045 / poetrysocietyny.org
Directions: Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Bldg., 10 South St.,
adjacent to the SI Ferry in Lower Manhattan.

“Pogopalooza 10″
The 10th Annual World Championships of Xpogo (extreme pogo) is the largest interactive pogo stick event in the world.

The main event of the weekend – the world’s best Xpogo finalists go head-to-head for bronze, silver, and gold medals, in three disciplines: Big Air, Best Trick, and High Jump. Titles, prizes, and glory are on the line. Pogo companies will be on-site demoing and selling all types of sticks from classic to extreme – the public is able to ride any stick (or learn how to pogo) in the Free Jump area.
Union Square North Plaza
17th St. between Broadway & Park Ave.
1PM – 5PM / FREE

Aaron Diehl Trio  – MoMA Summergarden
Programming at this popular concert series held outdoors in MoMA’s walled-in Sculpture Garden alternates between new-music presentations featuring Juilliard School performers and jazz nights booked by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Tonight you can swing with pianist Aaron Diehl, and his trio.

The exhibition galleries are closed during Summergarden. The Garden Bar sells gelato and seasonal sorbetto from Il Laboratorio del Gelato, with sweet and savory treats from Cafe 2. Prosecco, New York State wines, American craft beer, specialty coffees, and bottled water are also available for purchase.

This is likely to be a popular event, so show up early for prime seating.
Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St. (btw 5th/6th Ave.)
At 8PM / FREE
212-708-9400 / moma.org

Fred Hersch Trio with Joe Lovano*
“The unfalteringly elegant jazz pianist Fred Hersch has been in an especially sociable mode lately: he has new or forthcoming albums made in collaboration with the trumpeter Ralph Alessi, the pianist Benoît Delbecq and the guitarist Julian Lage. His featured conversationalist next week will be Joe Lovano, a saxophonist who shares his knack for articulating emotional truths within the frame of a song; they’ll work together with Mr. Hersch’s regular rhythm team of John Hébert on bass and Eric McPherson on drums.” (Chinen-NYT)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. / $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum.
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.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’ LAST DAY! 
‘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 07/26 and 07/24.