Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 2013

Crafts Festival (last day!)
The annual Autumn Crafts on Columbus — the 34th — will run from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the sidewalk of Columbus Avenue, near the American Museum of Natural History, Columbus Avenue, between 77th and 81st Streets; craftsoncolumbus.com.

This gathering of artisans brings together a selection of leather, textile and brass crafts from all across the United States as well as Australia and Israel. 250 stalls showcase woodwork, glassware, ceramics and other mediums. Demonstrations in pottery, metal and other crafts are offered. Refreshments, including poached pear tarts or strawberry stack cakes from New Amsterdam Baking Company, will be available when you finish perusing the stands.

TOM HARRELL
“Last week, the hard-blowing trumpeter led his customary quintet, and the second week of this prestigious engagement finds him fronting his leaner Trip ensemble. It includes the influential tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, whose smartly conceived improvisations deftly balance lyricism and rigor. Trip’s Ugonna Okegwo, on bass, and Adam Cruz, on drums, will set the horn players off in kinetic splendor.”
(NewYorker mag)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

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. Presented by the American Institute of Architects New York and the Center for Architecture, 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.

A schedule is at archtober.org/calendar.
Among today’s activities:
AIANY/Center for Architecture
Around Manhattan Boat Tour: NYC Architecture- online promo code ARCHOB5 for $5 off
9:45am, 1:45pm
Architecture & Design Film Festival
Architecture & Design Film Festival @ Tribeca Cinemas
2:30-10:30pm
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
National Design Week
The Municipal Art Society of New York
Walking Tour: Noted and Notorious Women of Downtown 2:00pm
Building of the Day: Avenues: The World School New York Tour Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (last day!)
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, “a national treasure” (Variety), celebrates its 45th anniversary with two programs of works spanning more than 40 years.

Program B features a second world premiere, Crazy 8’s, also set to music by Woolf; Lubovitch’s recently premiered As Sleep Befell, a dance for six men with a score by Paola Prestini, performed live by Le Train Bleu conducted by Ransom Wilson; Listen, choreographed by longtime company member Katarzyna Skarpetowska, also set to music by Prestini; Lubovitch’s award-winning Crisis Variations, with an original score by Yevgeniy Sharlat; plus the beautiful and moving Transparent Things, inspired by a Picasso painting and set to Debussy, performed live by The Bryant Park Quartet.
Program B: at 2pm: Transparent Things, Crisis Variations, As Sleep Befell, Listen, Crazy 8′s
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea,
at 2 and 7:30 p.m. / $10 to $69.
(212) 242-0800, joyce.org

Wilson, Rosnes, Washington Trio
“The saxophonist Steve Wilson, the pianist Renee Rosnes and the bassist Peter Washington share acres of history together, in their own bands and in others. Pooling their resources in this collective trio, they should come up with a crisp, approachable representation of jazz modernity.” (Chinen-NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St. and Broadway,
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m./$35 to $45 cover, with a $10 minimum
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. ================================================================================

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
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
All these exhibitions run from Oct 4, 2013–Jan 19, 2014

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 10/18 and 10/16.