Today’s “Fab 4”/ Selected NYCity Events – FRIDAY, SEPT 20, 2013.

Literary Past, Present, Future:
Three of Brooklyn’s most ardent supporters of literary culture, The Sackett Street Writer’s Workshop, LargeHearted Boy music & literature blog and SLICE Literary Magazine, present a night of readings by three critically acclaimed authors—Joyce Johnson (Minor Characters), Alissa Nutting (Tampa) and Gabriel Roth (The Unknowns)—plus giveaways and complimentary refreshments by Brooklyn’s own SixPoint Brewery. Hosted by Julia Fierro, David Gutowski, Maria Gagliano and Celia Johnson.
BookCourt, 163 Court St. (btw. Pacific & Dean St.)
books and beer! can you beat that!
subway: #2,3 express to Borough Hall; walk S 6 blocks on CourtSt.
At 7:00 PM / FREE
Website: www.bookcourt.com, www.blog.largeheartedboy.com, www.slicemagazine.org, www.sackettworkshop.com

City and Colour
“The lithe pop singer Dallas Green offers a featherweight falsetto and the palpable humility of an artist with his feet firmly planted. This solo project of Mr. Green’s, long a cult favorite in his native Ontario, yielded a hearty, enriching release in 2012, “Little Hell” (Vagrant). With Lissie and Lucy Rose.”(Anderson-NYT)
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, midpark at 70th St.
At 6 p.m./$35. ticketmaster.com

VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Vampire Weekend’s third album, “Modern Vampires of the City,” with its rhythmic complexities, mellow singing, and textural references to seventies pop, departs from the slick yet groovy African-influenced sound that put it on the map. Opens with Solange, who is best known as Beyoncé’s sister but whose bouncy, minimal, eighties-influenced dance pop holds its own, and Sky Ferreira and her moody lyrics and breathy vocals. (NewYorker mag)
Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave, at Flatbush Ave.
sometimes the event is special and we just have to go to Brooklyn.
fortunately, the #2-3 express will get you there quickly.
subway: #2-3 to atlantic ave.; walk upstairs and you are there!
At 8 p.m./ $35 to $49.99
(800) 745-3000, barclayscenter.com

Coltrane Revisited (Friday and Saturday)
“In advance of what would have been John Coltrane’s 87th birthday, the pianist Steve Kuhn — one of Coltrane’s sidemen, however briefly — assembles an astute and respectful cast. Mark Turner and Eric Alexander share tenor saxophone duties, each with his own style; the rhythm section has Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums.”(Chinen-NYT)
Birdland, 315 West 44th St.
At 8:30 and 11 p.m./$35 and $45 cover, with a $10 minimum.
(212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change. ================================================================================

Special Exhibitions @ 3 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. Museums:

“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective” (through Sept. 22)
‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi’ (through Nov. 3)
“Legends of the Dead Ball Era” (1900-1919) (through Dec. 1)
“Eighteenth Century Pastels” (through Dec. 29)
“Julia Margaret Cameron” (through Jan. 5, 2014)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

“Monika Grzymala, Volumen” (through Nov. 3)
Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th St.
(212) 685-0008 / themorgan.org.

“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) ========================================================== 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

Last, but certainly not least, America’s premier museum
• 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. ========================================================== Top Photography Exhibitions – NYCity / Manhattan’s WestSide   

Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street / 212-708-9400
XL: 19NewAcquisitions in Photography (through Dec. 31)
Walker Evans: American Photographs (through Jan. 26, 2014) 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) / 212-535-7710
Julia Margaret Cameron (through Jan. 5, 2014)
Everyday Ephiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969  (through Jan. 26, 2014)

ICP 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street / 212-857-0000
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial (through Sept. 22)

American Museum Natural History 
79th St. And Central Park West / (212) 313-7278
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies (through May 31, 2014)

One more photo exhibition, this one in a special setting – the lovely, new Bklyn Bridge Park with spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline, and of course, the Brooklyn Bridge. (easy to get to via subway: #2 or 3 express to Clark St. 1st stop in Bklyn.)

‘The Fence’ in Brooklyn Bridge Park (through Oct. 1) “When is a fence not a fence? When it is the backdrop for a free display of over 200 jury selected images of people, animals and daily life by 39 photographers from the United States and abroad. Presented for the second year by United Photo Industries, a Brooklyn arts cooperative, as a showcase for young photographers, the display consists of a 1,000-foot-long waterproof mesh banner superimposed with color and black-and-white photos. The banner stretches through Brooklyn Bridge Park, from Pier 15, at Joralemon Street and the East River in Brooklyn Heights, to Main Street in Dumbo.” (Anne Mancuso-NYT)
Pier 5, Joralemon Street and the East River
From 6am to 1am / FREE
(718) 215-9075 / fence.photovillenyc.org ==========================================================

For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar: “NYCity Events: Manhattan’s WestSide” dated 09/18 and 09/16.