Today’s “Fab 5″/ Selected NYCity Events – SATURDAY, JULY 05, 2014.

American Ballet Theater (last day)
Good Grief! We have not given ABT enough attention this spring season.
Tonight is your last chance – go.

Audiences will explore Dr. Coppelius’s enchanted workshop in Frederic Franklin’s “Coppélia” for two more performances, as the company concludes its season tonight.
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center,
212-362-6000, abt.org;
at 2 and 8 p.m. / $20 to $245.

Midsummer Night Swing: James Langton’s New York All-Star Big Band
(the festival continues through July 12.)

Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park transforms into a huge open-air dance party — for pros and newcomers alike this evening for Midsummer Night Swing. Tonight’s dance party pays tribute to the King of Swing, Benny Goodman, with music by an all-star band that features members of Goodman’s own ensemble led by clarinetist Dan Levinson.
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Amsterdam Ave. and W. 62 St.,
At 7:30 p.m. (with a dance lesson at 6:30 p.m.) / $17, $60 for four dance passes
212-721-6500, midsummernightswing.org

The Liar Show
Andy Christie, host; Jim O’Grady, guest host
This month, The Liar Show welcomes Matthew Dicks (NPR’s This American Life), Ophira Eisenberg (Host of NPR’s Ask Me Another), Matthew Mercier (Adjunct Professor, Hunter College; Glimmer Train), and Tracy Rowland (The Moth GrandSlam Finalist).

Four storytellers detail events from their lives. 3 are True Stories, 1 is a Pack of Lies. Uncover the liar and win a prize worth its weight in fool’s gold.
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. (btw Bleecker and W 4th Sts.)
At 6:00pm / $10, plus $10 minimum
212-989-9319 / corneliastreetcafe.com

Joe Farnsworth Quartet
Joe Farnsworth is a briskly swinging drummer, especially persuasive with the dialect of hard-bop. For this shift as a bandleader he enlists the eminent alto saxophonist Gary Bartz, the sharp pianist Eric Reed and the strong bassist Gerald Cannon.” (Chinen-NYT)
Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th St.
212-864-6662, smokejazz.com
At 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m./$38 cover, with a variable minimum.

Arturo O’Farrill with Auction Project (through July 6)
“Mr. O’Farrill is best known as the pianist and bandleader with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, which has a standing Sunday-night engagement at Birdland. This week he’ll also work in that room with Auction Project, a chamber-like ensemble featuring David Bixler on saxophones, Victor Prieto on accordion, Heather Martin Bixler on violin, Carlo De Rosa on bass and Vince Cherico on drums.” (Chinen-NYT)
Birdland, 315 West 44th St., (btw 8th /9th Ave)
212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com
At 8:30 and 11 p.m. / $40, with a $10 minimum.

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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 07/03 and 07/01.