Today’s “Fab 5″+1/ Selected NYCity Events –TUESDAY, SEPT. 09, 2014

Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Artist Marcus Robinson spent eight years documenting the work at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. Robinson shot time-lapse footage using thirteen digital cameras to capture the rise of the tallest building in NYC. Rebuilding the World Trade Center (62 mins.) is a story about construction on an epic scale, but above all it focuses on the construction workers, from the site managers to those who dug the building’s foundations and the ironworkers who assembled its steel frames.

The director and workers in the film will sit down for a conversation with New York Times reporter James Glanz, author of City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center (2003), following the screening.
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
6:30PM / $16
212-534-1672 / mcny.org

Laurel Halo
“Laurel Halo is a shape-shifting electronic musician adept at everything from propulsive techno to slow, contemplative ballads in which she sings with an otherworldly coo. Her production style is diverse and hands-on, with an ear for the sounds of vintage and contemporary gear, and her recordings emit an aura of having been considered in great detail. Her 2012 debut album “Quarantine” featured mesmerizing songs with lyrics about alienation and lost love, and then last year’s “Chance of Rain” downplayed words for mysterious rhythms and atmospherics. It’s never quite clear what Ms. Halo will do next, which bodes well for her performance here as part of the series “Synth Nights.” (WSJ)
The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St. (btw 10/11 ave)
8pm / $15
(212) 255-5793 / thekitchen.org

Book Readings
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand “ Off the Sidelines”
Senator Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, discusses her memoir, “Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World,”
Barnes & Noble in Union Square, at 33 East 17th St.
at 7 p.m / FREE
Priority seating with book purchase begins at 3:00 pm on the 4th floor.
OR
Charles Finch Reading
This mystery novelist, who is known for his Charles Lenox series, will read from his latest, “The Last Enchantments.” The reading will be followed by a discussion of the art of the novel and a Q. and A. (Men are required to wear collared shirts and jackets.)
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, at Irving Place
At 8 p.m. / FREE
212-475-3424 / nationalartsclub.org

Karen O (through Friday)
“The beaming, formerly beer-spewing frontwoman of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cleaned herself up extremely well for the Oscars this year; she performed the award-nominated “Moon Song,” from the Spike Jonze movie “Her,” in a gorgeous red dress and with transfixing delicacy.

She celebrates the release of her first solo record, “Crush Songs,” which nods to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ early lo-fi roots and adds downcast folk emphasis, with three nights at the intimate Manderley Bar of the McKittrick Hotel and one at Le Poisson Rouge.” (Anderson-NYT)
Tuesday through Thursday at 11 p.m.,
Manderley Bar, McKittrick Hotel, 530 West 27th Street, Chelsea, mckittrickhotel.com; $35.
Friday at 6:30 p.m.,
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, 212-505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; sold out.

Honey Week 2014 (September 8–14, 2014)
A weeklong, citywide festival celebrating the honeybee, Honey Week 2014 merges the educational, the entertaining, and the downright delicious. From beekeeping classes to honey-themed dinners, apiary tours to honey tastings, cooking classes to kids’ workshops, the festival flits from neighborhood to neighborhood, drawing deep from apicultural traditions and New York City’s cultural traditions alike.

The week culminates in the fourth annual daylong Honey Fest at Rockaway Boardwalk on Saturday, September 13, a free, family-friendly extravaganza featuring art, food, music, kids’ arts and crafts, the Bee Marketplace, and, of course, honey galore!
The full schedule is on the Honey Week site.

Today’s Highlight:
“Let’s Talk Bees” Lecture & Panel Discussion
NYC Beekeepers Association invites former Peace Corps volunteer Ivan K. Landers to sweet-talk about his time in Paraguay amongst the Guarani, followed by a panel discussion about urban swarm catching, pollinator decline, and the problems almond pollinating presents for honeybee health, featuring Landers, former NYPD detective “Tony Bees” Planakis, and Gretchen Heine.
Seafarers & International House
7:00pm – 9:00pm // Free w/ RSVP

All Week:
Honey Happenings at Eataly
Eataly, that mecca of all things culinary from Italy, celebrates NYC Honey Week by highlighting all things bee and honey. This weeklong, store-wide promotion buzzes with varietal honeys, honey-infused craft beers, and special offers of honey-inspired dishes and pairings with cheeses and wines.

Elsewhere, but looks too good to miss:

Steve Reich and Philip Glass (also Wednesday and Thursday)
Part of 2014 Next Wave Festival

In this landmark festival, BAM celebrates the artists of Nonesuch Records, in honor of the influential label’s 50 years. With a shared dedication to connecting artists across genres, BAM and Nonesuch have cultivated the work of artists including Steve Reich, Philip Glass , Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Stephin Merritt, and Youssou NDOUR, among so many others.

Opening the festival on September 9, iconic artists Steve Reich and Philip Glass take the stage together for the first time in more than 30 years. Glass and Reich are joined by their respective ensembles, as well as Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, Synergy Vocals, and others for a rare three-program retrospective.

Through September 28, BAM is highlighting artists drawn from the label’s back catalogs, including Senegalese singer-songwriter Youssou N’Dour (September 12 & 13), Jeff Tweedy (September 23), Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters (September 27 & 28).
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.
7:30 p.m. / Tickets start at $30
bam.org / 718.636.4100

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♦ 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:
‘Garry Winogrand’ (through Sept. 21)
Mr. Winogrand, who died at 56 in 1984, was the photographer laureate of urban and suburban middle-class life in the United States from the late 1950s through the ’70s and beyond. This ample retrospective focuses on his prime years, when he recorded a newly prosperous America while strolling Manhattan’s avenues and then followed it as it waded into increasingly troubled political waters. The result is a remarkable panorama of an era, with some terrific pictures, and some that Winogrand, who left a mountain of unprocessed film behind, never edited or printed. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter-NYT)
‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’ (through Oct. 26)
‘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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‘Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face’ (through Oct. 26)
The 400th anniversary celebration of El Greco’s death begins with a stunning clarification of the youthful greatness of his portrait “Vincenzo Anastagi” — a Frick Collection stalwart — that also teaches much about radicalism, fame and painting. This is done simply by pairing it with the obsessively detailed “Jacopo Boncompagni,” a rarely seen portrait by Scipione Pulzone, the now-forgotten artist of the moment in 1570s Rome, where both works were made. (Roberta Smith-NYT)
Frick Collection: 1 East 70th St. (btw 5th/Madison)
212-288-0700, frick.org.
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Kandinsky Before Abstraction, 1901–1911 (through spring 2015)
Early in his career Vasily Kandinsky experimented with printmaking, produced brightly-colored landscapes of the German countryside, and explored recognizable and recurrent motifs. This intimate exhibition drawn from the Guggenheim collection explores the artist’s representational origins.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.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 09/07 and 09/05.