Today’s “Fab 5″+1/ Selected NYCity Events – TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014.

Cody Chesnutt
Universally hailed as a thrilling new figure in music for his edgy, lo-fi debut, The Headphone Masterpiece, back in 2002, Cody ChesnuTT is a soul troubadour whose frank, socially conscious ruminations on life continue to challenge popular notions of what modern soul music can look and sound like: a raw storyteller for the people wearing a guitar and a toothpick-chewing smirk; a wide-eyed, intense soul brother in a crazy-fly get-up singing about bedraggled love in the land of Lost Angeles – he’s all of that, but wiser now while still wearing poetic license on his skin like a battle scar.

Keeping it truthful is ultimately what matters most in Cody’s songs: how it reveals itself in your darkest thoughts, how it can heal old wounds with a handclap and a foot stomp. Truthfulness emanates from Cody’s vocal chords and the strings of his guitar while his, strong, sensitive voice continues to command listeners with its riveting sound, leading them to their own higher ground.
City Winery, 155 Varick St, Tribeca (btw Vandam/Spring St. – #1 to Houston).
from 5PM-7:30PM / FREE
212-608-0555 / citywinery.com
This is part of the 6th Annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival.
This after-work Backyard Party is held every Tuesday from June 3rd through August 26^th, in the back parking lot behind City Winery.

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade (through Friday, June 22.)
“The pianist Pérez, the bassist Patitucci, and the drummer Blade have provided the structural framework for the saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s highly interactive quartet since its inception, in 2000. Although Shorter’s absence might be the elephant in the room, these exceptionally gifted, idiosyncratic improvisers (each of whom also composes and has lead his own ensembles) are certainly capable of conjuring sonic mystery without their enigmatic leader at the helm.” (NewYorker)
Blue Note, 131 W. 3rd St.
At 8:00 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. / $20-$35
212-475-8592.

Virginia Craft
Foodstuffs, craft beer, Virginia wines,  and other things made in Virginia are featured at Chelsea Market. Virginia Craft is a culinary reception hosted by the Virginia Tourism Corporation, to introduce us to some of Virginia’s best craft food and drink.
Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave. (btw 15th/16th St.)
4 to 9 p.m. / chelseamarket.com
Follow the event via #VACraft on Twitter.

Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band (also Wednesday)
“The most happy-go-lucky Beatle has developed a non-Fab Four career to match: releasing more than a dozen studio albums, hamming in a British comedy with Peter Sellers and John Cleese (“The Magic Christian”) and narrating a pack of anthropomorphized trains on “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.” His All Starr Band, a rotating jam group currently cobbled from high-profile friends like Todd Rundgren, is a good-natured classic rock saloon.” (NYT- Anderson)
Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th St.
800-745-3000, beacontheatrenyc.com
At 8 p.m. / $59.50 to $129.50.

Mercan Dede & Istanbul Tribe + The Secret Trio
“Making his first local appearance in a decade, Dede (AKA DJ Arkin Allen) is a popular Turkish progressive who fronts a traditional ensemble on turntables, electronics, and occasional ney flute. The concept behind his 2013 double-CD album _Dunya_ is environmental apocalypse. The Secret Trio – Tamer Pinarbasi (kanun zither), Ismail Lumanovski (clarinet), and Ara Dinkjian (ud lute) – play mesmerizing originals and traditional music from Turkey, Armenia, and Macedonian Roma.” (Richard Gehr-VillageVoice)
Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza, 220 Vesey Street, near West Street
brookfieldplaceny.com
At 7:30 p.m. / FREE

PlusOne
Other Rooms: A Conversation with Jo Ann Callis and Lesley A. Martin
Join artist Jo Ann Callis for a conversation with Lesley A. Martin, publisher of Aperture’s book program. They will discuss Callis’s mid-1970s investigation of the nude body and sexuality, featured in her new Aperture book, Other Rooms. The artist’s playful, evocative use of constrictions and overlays on the human form, including twine, belts, tape, and other everyday materials, is both humorous and fraught. Her work offers an intensely personal assessment of the variable meanings of pleasure, eros, and the female nude as a staple of fine art photography.
Aperture Foundation Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th St, 4th Floor
AT 6:30pm / $5
aperture.org/event

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

♦ NYCity is a big town with many visitors where quality shows draw crowds. Try to reserve seats in advance, even if just on day of performance.
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What’s on View:
Special Exhibitions @ 3 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. Museums:

‘Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century’ (through July 27)
The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection’ (through Sept. 7)
‘Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C.F. Martin’ (through Dec. 7)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

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Guggenheim Museum: ‘Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe’ (through Sept. 1)
“This epic, beautifully designed exhibition may be one of the more thorough examinations of modernism’s most obnoxious and conflicted art movement that you are likely to see. Awash in the manifestoes that its members regularly fired off, it follows Futurism through to its end with the death of its founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in 1944. It covers the Futurist obsessions with speed, war, machines and, finally, flight and the aerial views it made possible. And the show highlights relatively unknown figures like the delightful Fortunato Depero and Benedetta Cappa, Marinetti’s wife. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org.“ (Smith-NYT)
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.
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‘Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937’ (through June 30)
Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th St.
212-628-6200 / neuegalerie.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. ==========================================================

For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar: “NYCity Events: Manhattan’s WestSide” dated 06/15 and 06/13.