Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – MONDAY, OCT. 14, 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
Among today’s activities:
AIANY/Center for Architecture
Around Manhattan Boat Tour: NYC Architecture/ 10:00am;1:45pm
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
National Design Week: Drop-in on Design – Family Programs
Building of the Day: NY City Center / Tour Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Amiri Baraka’s Blues People at Fifty
A conversation with Professors William J. Harris, Robert G. O’Meally and John F. Szwed
On September 25, 1963 Amiri Baraka’s classic, Blue People: Negro Music in White America, was published in New York City with a first impression of 5000 copies, and, remaining fresh and relevant, has never gone out of print.

Professors William J. Harris, University of Kansas, Robert O’Meally, Columbia University and John Szwed, Columbia University, will discuss the musical, sociological, aesthetic and theoretical implications of this sociocultural history of African American music and its unique place in American music history and culture. This comprehensive study, the first to be written by an African American, is a precursor to the fields of cultural studies and critical race theory.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JAZZ STUDIES
622 Dodge Hall, West 116th Street & Broadway, Columbia Main Campus
At 8PM / FREE

Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road
“Clarinet Road” is the name of a pair of recent albums by Mr. Christopher, a superbly gifted clarinetist steeped in the traditional New Orleans style. He appears here under that banner (and under the aegis of the Sidney Bechet Society) with a group that includes the cornetist Randy Reinhart, the singer Hilary Gardner and the pianist Eli Yamin. Joining as an honored guest is Marty Napoleon, a former pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars. (Chinen-NYT)
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th St.
At 7:15 p.m./ $35, $25 for members
(212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org

The American Brass Quintet performs Gabrieli and others
Program:
SEBASTIAN CURRIER Cadence, Fugue, Fade (2013)
DAVID SNOW Dance Movements
LUCA MARENZIO, ed. Raymond Mase Three Madrigals
GIOVANNI GABRIELI, ed. Raymond Mase Two Canzonas

Recently awarded Chamber Music America’s highest honor, The Richard J. Bogomolny Award, for their significant and lasting contribution to the chamber music field, the American Brass Quintet performs works from the ever-evolving brass chamber music repertoire-works often commissioned or unearthed and arranged by members of the Quintet as part of their efforts to promote the brass quintet as a significant chamber music form.
Julliard School, Paul Hall, 155 W. 65th St.
At 8PM / FREE
1-212-769-7406

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party
A popular weekly soiree that brings a sprinkling of Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the legendary Birdland every Monday night. For the past nine years, it’s been the spot to mix and mingle with Manhattan show folk and their fans.

The buoyant, sharp and charming Broadway impresario Jim Caruso hosts a combination open-mic, networking event and party, where some nights you may hear the biggest stars on Broadway relax on their night off by performing their favorite songs in an informal setting. Always fun.
Birdland – 315 West 44th St (btw 8th/9th ave)
9:30 pm / $20 (includes a drink if you sit at the bar, which are not bad seats)
(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. ================================================================================

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 10/12 and 10/10.