Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – TUESDAY, OCT. 08, 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.
archtober.org

The Columbus Avenue Match: 
West Side Wines and Gastronomie 491 Cheese
Yes, the days are growing shorter and the nights are growing chillier but that isn’t the most important change of the season!  The wines are different and so are the cheeses.  Autumn is prime time for amazing wines, richer and more sublime, and this is the best time of year for cheese, so many full bodied flavors in every ounce.

Andy Besch, owner of West Side Wines, and author of “The Wine Guy: Everything You Want to Know about Buying and Enjoying Wine from Someone Who Sells It,” will present six awesome wines, which will be chosen to match six extraordinary cheeses from the Gastronomie 491 selection. Martin Johnson, the lead cheesemonger at Gastronomie and one of the leading cheese wits in the city (or at least the New York Times thinks so, http://bit.ly/VSYuhe), will present the cheeses.
Gastronmie 491, 491 Columbus Avenue (btw 83rd and 84th St.)
at 7 pm / $20
(212) 974-7871 / http://www.gastronomie491.com

TOM HARRELL (through Oct. 13)
Jazz has had its share of triumph-over-adversity tales, but few have been as inspirational as that of Harrell.

Harrell is widely regarded as being among the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. He is a past winner of both the Down Beat Readers and Critics Polls in the trumpet category, whose roots go back to an early-seventies run with Horace Silver, Harrell is also a diagnosed schizophrenic.

Yet his condition hasn’t kept him from establishing himself as an active bandleader. While his communication with audiences is minimal, his forthright skills as a player are not affected. He begins a two-week engagement, splitting the time between two different ensembles; his longtime quintet, featuring the saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, is up first.(NewYorker mag)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St.
at 8:30 & 10:30PM / $25 cover with a one drink minimum
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

Mary Oliver
Rare appearance by the Dog Songs author.
Oliver, whom nature would probably appoint poet laureate were it in a position to do so, has a new book out about the subset of the natural world with four legs and waggy tails. Normally a scarce public commodity, she’ll read from Dog Songs twice this week in New York. “Said Ricky to me one day, ‘Why is it you / don’t have a tail?’ / Well, I just don’t.” I can’t guarantee she’ll read that line, but I hope so. —K.S./NY mag
Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E 17th St.
7PM / FREE
212-253-0810 

Jorge Drexler
The best Uruguayan song you’ll hear this week.
The producer Gustavo Santaolalla has an ear for genius, and one of his finer inspirations was to use the song “Al Otro Lado Sel Rio” in the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. The man who wrote it is the velvet-voiced, big-hearted singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, and he’ll be onstage, courtesy of the World Music Institute, at Ethical Culture. —J.D. / NY mag
New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St., nr. Central Park West
At 7:30PM / $45
212-874-5210 / nysec.org

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

What’s on View:
Special Exhibitions @ 4 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. Museums:

‘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)
“Medieval Treasurse From Hildesheim” (through Jan. 5, 2014)
“Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800” (through Jan. 5, 2014)
“Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan” (through Jan. 12, 2014)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

“Monika Grzymala, Volumen” (through Nov. 3)
‘Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings’ (ends Jan. 5)
Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th St.
(212) 685-0008 / themorgan.org.

“Kandinsky in Paris, 1934–1944” (through Apr.23, 2014)
Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.

“La Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump” (through Jan. 4, 2014)
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th St.
(212) 831-7272 / elmuseo.org

========================================================== 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. ========================================================== What’s on View: 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
All these exhibitions run from Oct 4, 2013–Jan 19, 2014:
Lewis Hine
The Future of America: Lewis Hine’s New Deal Photographs
JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History
Zoe Strauss: 10 Years

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

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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar: “NYCity Events: Manhattan’s WestSide” dated 09/30 and 09/28.