Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – SUNDAY, OCT. 06, 2013

Archtober /October 1–31
To the design world, October is Archtober, or Design and Architecture Month, in New York City. For 31 days, the entire city opens its doors for design tours, lectures, films and celebrations, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the buildings that give this metropolis its distinct character. More than 50 organizations are participating this year, including the Museum of Arts and Design, Queens Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR (last day!)
In the early nineties, Will Ramsay had risen to the position of captain in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, but by 1996 he had left the British Army to lead a new charge: that of affordable contemporary art. He founded Will’s Art Warehouse, a user-friendly gallery for collectors on a budget. Three years later, the Affordable Art Fair was born, and it has since spread to fifteen cities. At the four-day, family-friendly fair here, prices start at less than one hundred dollars a work, and more than half of them cost below five thousand dollars.
The Tunnel, 269 Eleventh Ave., btw 27th and 28th Sts.
Affordableartfair.com

MUSIC BEFORE 1800
Ensemble Peregrina – Sacer Nidus, The Holy Nest: Polish Medieval Music
The international vocal quartet Ensemble Peregrina based in Basel specializes in Western European music from the 9th through 14th centuries. Extensive touring brings the singers to the U.S. for a debut performance, offering the earliest extant Polish music—songs and sequences from 1000 AD—written for St. Adalbert, Boleslaw I, and Otto III.

This concert is part of the New York Early Music Celebration, a Service Project of the Early Music Foundation, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute of New York. Partial funding is provided by the West Harlem Local Development Corporation via a re-grant program admnistered by the EMF.
Corpus Christi Church
529 W. 121 Street (at corner of Broadway across from Teachers College)
At 4:00pm / $27.50 – $45
website: Peregrina.ch

McCoy Tyner Quintet
“The thunderclap power that used to rattle the walls of the clubs may arise only in fits and starts these days, but the seventy-four-year-old pianist retains the harmonic keyboard signature that has made him a key influence since his sixties stint with John Coltrane. His quintet features the saxophonist Gary Bartz and the violinist John Blake, Jr.” (NewYorker mag)
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village
At 8 and 10:30 p.m., $45 cover at tables, $30 at the bar, with a $5 minimum.
475-8592, bluenote.net

The New Yorker Festival (last day!)
“The literary smorgasbord known as The New Yorker Festival is offering ample servings of readings, discussions and screenings with writers, actors and others, at several locations. Online sales are closed for many events, but tickets to some notable ones are still available.

Among them are a talk on Sunday at 2 p.m. by Jill Lepore (“Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” just released by Alfred A. Knopf) at the SVA Theater 2, 333 West 23rd Street, Chelsea.
Tickets are $35. A schedule is at festival.newyorker.com.” (NYT-Anne Mancuso)

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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WHAT’S ON VIEW: Special Exhibitions @ 3 MUSEUMS
(Manhattan’s WestSide & the BrooklynMuseum) 

‘Walker Evans: American Photographs’ (through Jan. 26, 2014)
American Modern: Hopper to O’Keefe (through Jan. 26, 2014)
America’s cultural landscape shifted rapidly in the early 20th century. American Modern at the Museum of Modern Art looks at this change via some of the iconic works produced between 1915 and 1950. Artists highlighted include George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz and Andrew Wyeth. In organizing the art thematically, American Modern will highlight the connections between the artists’ works.
Museum of Modern Art: 11 W 53rd St. (btw 5th /6th Ave.)
(212) 708-9400 / moma.org.
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The Art of the Brick by Nathan Sawaya (ongoing)
This exhibition by artist Nathan Sawaya is a critically acclaimed collection of intriguing and inspiring works of art made exclusively from one of the most recognizable toys in the world — LEGO® bricks. The Discovery Times Square exhibit will be the world’s biggest and most elaborate display of LEGO® art ever and will feature brand-new, never-before-seen pieces by Sawaya. This show was named ‘One of CNN’s Ten Global Must-See Exhibitions.’
Discovery Times Square, 226 West 44th St. (btw 7th/8th ave)
866.987.9692 / http://www.discoverytsx.com

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‘Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn’ (continuing)
This eclectic, imaginatively thought-out one-gallery immersion experience in world art, all from Brooklyn’s collection and installed in the museum’s revamped Great Hall, serves as a teaser to the fabulous collections in the galleries beyond.
‘Divine Felines: Cats of AncientEgypt’ (through Dec. 29)
Brooklyn Museum: 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park,
(subway: easy ride from midtown on #2 or #3 express to Eastern Pkway/Bklyn Museum)
(718) 638-5000 / brooklynmuseum.org

WHAT’S ON VIEW: Top Photography Exhibitions
(NYCity / Manhattan’s WestSide)

  Museum of Modern Art
Walker Evans: American Photographs (through Jan. 26, 2014)
New Photography 2013 (through Jan. 6, 2014)
11 West 53rd Street / 212-708-9400

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

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

   ICP
New Exhibitions begin Oct.4
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street / 212-857-0000

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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 (10/04) and (10/02).