Today’s “Fab 5″+1/ Selected NYCity Events  – FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014

FALU Naked Soul
Falu performs a concert of songs that feature her patented Hindu-rock style.

After sold out shows at the Rubin in 2011 and 2012, Falu is back at the Rubin by popular demand for a special Naked Soul concert featuring new, all-acoustic songs, and special guest Chris Washburne on trombone.

Falu is a classically trained Indian vocalist whose diverse musical repertoire captures both her traditional roots as well as her unique ability in combining Hindi music with an inventive rock.

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The Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St. (btw 6th/7th ave)
@ 7:00 PM / $25.00
212.620.5000

Bastille Day Events
Lot’s of Bastille Day events this week. Let’s start here (with more to follow):
The French game of pétanque — kind of like bocce — takes center court this weekend at festivities around the city. The pétanque courts that lined West Broadway, between White and Beach Streets, in TriBeCa last year return for a celebration with music and food.
from noon to 9 p.m.
sponsored by the restaurant Cercle Rouge.
212-226-6252

The New York Philharmonic performs Richard Strauss, Tchiakovsky and Smetena
Program:
Richard Strauss’s Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Smetana’s Vyšehrad from Má v last
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
Alan Gilbert conducts. Fireworks by Bay Fireworks will follow the performance.

For those that appreciate an evening of classical music under a night of summer stars, the New York Philharmonic once again presents its annual Concerts in the Parks series on the Great Lawn in Central Park.
Enter on the Westside at West 81st or 86th Streets at Central Park West.
at 8:00 pm / FREE

Manhattanhenge discussion
“This annual phenomenon, which occurs when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid, can be viewed for the second time this year (it also happened in May). It can actually be experienced on Friday at 8:24 p.m. (with the full sun visible) and Saturday at 8:25 p.m. (with the half sun). Best viewing is along 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd and 57th Streets, and the farther east the better. The history — and mystery — of the occurrence (which was given its name by the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium) will be the topic of a pre-Manhattanhenge discussion on Friday at 7 p.m. in the planetarium with Jackie Faherty, an astrophysicist.” (NYT)
Hayden Planetarium, Central Park West and 79th St.,
212-769-5200, amnh.org
at 7PM / $15, $13.50 for students, 65+ and members.

Juana Molina
“Juana Molina is a musician between worlds. She hails from Argentina, but she comes across as a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, and though her job description can be as simple as “singer-songwriter,” she works with all manner of unusual sounds and electronics too. Her superb 2013 album “Wed 21” plays as both a sort of experimental sonic collage and an extraordinarily pleasing collection of laid-back songs, with warm, approachable melodies and playful shifts in rhythm that signal Ms. Molina’s South American roots.

Ms. Molina plays two events attached to the Latin Alternative Music Conference, at the concert space for WNYC radio, with the “psychedelic salsa” band La Mecánica Popular, and then again on Saturday afternoon at Central Park SummerStage.” (WSJ)
The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St., at Varick St.
At 7PM / $20
866-811-4111 / thegreenespace.org

Midsummer Night Swing (also Saturday)
“This is the last weekend for this festival, which turns Damrosch Park into an open air dance party. On the schedule are samba on Friday, and a special swing evening on Saturday, with an appearance by the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra and a lindy hop dance contest.” (NYT)
At 6:30 p.m. (dance lessons) and 7:30 p.m. (music and dancing).
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center,
212-721-6500, midsummernightswing.org; $17.
but it’s free to just hang out and listen to the music.

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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 07/09 and 07/07.