Today’s “Fab Five” / Selected NYCity Events – TUESDAY, July 30, 2013

A Tribe Called Red, a Cross-Cultural Musical Mash-Up
A Tribe Called Red’s trio of DJs – NDN, Bear Witness, and Shub – create a unique, never-before-heard sound built from a foundation of Native American chants combined with hip-hop, dance hall, and dubstep, to form a cross-cultural musical mash-up they call “pow wow step.” Based in Ottawa, this crew reimagines pow wow music for Canada’s increasingly urbanized aboriginal youth, reclaiming clichés and transforming them into club beats.
Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center), 220 Vesey St.
At 5:30PM / FREE
1-212-417-7000

Hidden Harbor: Brooklyn Tour
Do you know where Heineken and Amstel Light come into New York, or where Macy’s loaded 40,000 shells onto four barges for the July 4 fireworks spectacular? Brooklyn!

Visit Places Along Brooklyn’s Shoreline that Can Only Be Seen from the Water
On this insider’s tour of the Brooklyn waterfront, you will:
· Visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
· Learn all about Brooklyn Bridge Park
· See the home of Phoenix Beverages (the folks that import those Heinekens)
· See the Red Hook Container and Cruise Ship Terminals
· Explore Erie Basin (home to the fireworks barges)
· Travel along the historic Sunset Park and South Brooklyn waterfront where intermodal shipping was born, where Elvis shipped out for his military service, and where many new maritime uses are being developed
· See tugs, barges and container ships at work
· Get a great photo-op view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline
· And much more.
South Street Seaport, 
Special Two-Hour Brooklyn Tour,
Departs Pier 16, at 6:30 p.m.

The Knights perform works by Stravinsky, Bach and Britten
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sinfonia in C Major, Wq. 182, No.3
Igor Stravinsky Concerto in D
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C minor, Bwv. 1060
Benjamin Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, & Strings, Op. 31

The Knights are “on a fast track to the top of the chamber orchestra ladder.” (Cleveland Classical)
Central Park, Naumburg Bandshell
Closest entrances: Fifth Ave. & 72nd St. and Central Park West & 72nd St.
At 7:30PM / FREE
1-212-310-6600

Burton Cummings
former lead singer of The Guess Who, performs his great solo material, and will, of course, perform those Guess Who classics! Blues & Folk artist Jonah Tolchin opens for Burton.

Burton Cummings, OC, is a Canadian musician and songwriter who was the lead singer of The Guess Who from 1965 to 1975. During that time Burton sang, wrote and co-wrote the lion’s share of the Guess Who music, including successes like These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, American Woman, Share the Land, Star Baby, and Clap For the Wolfman.
City Winery, 155 Varick St., at Vandam St.
At 8PM /$45 at the bar, $50 at a table
212-608-0555 / citywinery.com/newyork/

Johnny O’Neal*
Still something of a best-kept secret in jazz circles, Johnny O’Neal is a pianist in the Art-Tatum-and-Oscar-Peterson lineage, and a singer of gruff erudition. His standing engagement at Smalls, on Sunday nights, has become a prized institution; next week he also performs at an earlier hour, in a shinier uptown room, probably to a slightly different clientele.”  (Chinen-NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway
at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., $30 cover, with a $10 minimum
212-258-9595 / jalc.org

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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Chelsea is the heart of the NYCity contemporary art scene. Home to more than 300 art galleries, the Rubin Museum, the Joyce Theater, and The Kitchen performance spaces,   there is no place like it anywhere in the world.

Come here to browse free exhibitions by world-renowned artists and those unknowns waiting to be discovered in an art district that is concentrated between West 18th and West 27th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues. Afterwards stop in the Chelsea Market, stroll on the High Line, or rest up at one of the many cafes and bars and discuss the fine art – my fave is Ovest on W 27th St., where the aperitivo is like Happy Hour on steroids.

Here are a few Special Exhibitions in Chelsea Galleries that you shouldn’t miss:

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, “Fragments” (through Fri Aug 2)
Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21st St. (btw 10/11Ave.)
Tue–Sat 10am–6pm / FREE
212-741-1717 /gagosian.com

Rosalind Solomon, “Portraits in the Time of AIDS, 1988” (through Fri Aug 2)
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W 24th St. ((btw 10/11Ave.)
Mon–Fri 10am–6pm / FREE
212-627-3930 / brucesilverstein.com

Lucien Samaha, “The Flight Attendant Years: 1978–1986” (through Aug 2)
“A native of Lebanon who now calls New York home, Lucien Samaha is a photographer born with jet fuel and salty snacks in his veins: His father was a flight attendant, and the artist became one himself on his 20th birthday, in 1978.

Over the ensuing decade, he documented his life serving countless passengers aboard TWA, in both color and black-and-white images. Picturing himself and his former coworkers on duty and off, Samaha offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrayal of the jet age as a series of family snapshots, capturing a close-knit tribe of global nomads with few ties to the ground.” (TONY mag)
Lombard Freid Projects
518 W 19th St, between Tenth and Eleventh Ave.
Tue–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 11am–6pm / FREE
212-967-8040 / lombard-freid.com

Simon Fujiwara, Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex) (Until Fri Aug 9)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 W 24th St., (btw 10/11Ave.)
Tue–Sat 10am–6pm / FREE
212-627-6000 / andrearosengallery.com

“Reinventing Abstraction” (through Aug 31)
“Curated by poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, this show looks at a group of painters who, to varying degrees, undertook an individualistic, even eccentric, approach to abstraction during the 1980s, when the attention of the art world was otherwise focused on Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Geo and appropriation art. Carroll Dunham, Mary Heilmann, Bill Jensen, Elizabeth Murray, Joan Snyder and Terry Winters are some of the artists with works on view.” (TONY mag)
Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th St, btw Tenth and Eleventh Aves
Tue–Sat 10am–6pm / FREE
212-242-7727 / cheimread.com

==========================================================For a listing of 25 essential galleries in the Chelsea Art Gallery District, organized by street, which enables you to create your own Chelsea Art Gallery crawl, see the Chelsea Gallery Guide (nycgo.com)
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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in the right Sidebar: “Selected Events + Special Exhibitions : Manhattan’s WestSide” dated (07/28) and (07/26).