NYCity 1-2-3 : What's Happening / Manhattan's WestSide

Today’s TOP 10 – SATURDAY, MAY 09, 2015
“We search the internet everyday looking for the very best of What’s Happening,
primarily Manhattan’s WestSide, so that you don’t have to. We make it as easy as 1-2-3.
(click on links for complete event info)

Music, Dance, Performing Arts
> “The SINATRATHON:
The World’s Longest and Best Centennial Celebration of Frank Sinatra”.
The Cutting Room / 10AM+, $40 Daytime Ticket, $50 Evening Ticket, $80 All Day Ticket
> Jennifer Sheehan – Stardust: A Night in the Cosmos
54 Below, 254 West 54th St. (btw 8th Ave./Broadway) / 9:30PM, $40
> Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival (through May 9)
Tonight’s Highlight: Jason Moran: Harlem Nights / U Street Lights
Apollo Theater, / 8PM, $35-$45
> Global Beat Festival With Guayo Cedeño and Aurelio Martinez
Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St. / 8PM, FREE
> The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Guest Vocalist Carmen Bradford
Birdland, 315 W. 44th St. / 8:30PM + 11PM, $45

Smart Stuff / Other
(Lectures, Discussions, Book Talks, Literary Readings, Classes, Food & Drink, Other)
> PEN World Voices Festival (through May 10)
Today’s Highlight: Print Renaissance
Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room, 79 Crosby St. / 11:30AM, $12
> NYC Spring Wine Festival
Broad Street Ballroom / 3pm. $99–$199.
> Graphic Design Talk & Workshop: How Posters Work
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st St. / 5PM, $15-$25
Elsewhere, but “Da Bronx” is always worth the the detour:
>Bronx Week (through May 17)
Various times and locations.
Today: Gun Hill Brewing Company’s “Spring Into Summer” party / 3PM
> RadioLoveFest (through May 10)
Tonight: Selected Shorts: Uncharted Territories, 30th Anniversary Event
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave / 7:30PM, $30

Have time for only one event? Do this:
“The SINATRATHON: The World’s Longest and Best Centennial Celebration of Frank Sinatra”.
Frank Sinatra, born a century ago in 1915, was not only the greatest singer in all of American culture, he was also the most prolific. Over a career that spanned nearly 60 years, he recorded over 1,600 songs, starred in over 50 movies, and made innumerable concert, radio, and TV appearances. No single tribute is big enough to do justice to the full length and breadth of Sinatra’s contribution to music, so the Cutting Room is announcing the SINATRA-THON. On Saturday, May 9th , New York’s newest and hippest music venue will present a day-long celebration of the greatest of all musical icons, the legendary Frank Sinatra, in honor of the centennial of this celebrated singer and actor.

The event will involve the talents of more than 50 of New York’s finest singers and musicians (including a full big band) and will continue for over 14 hours.

The show will take place on the day before Mother’s Day, 2015, in honor of the singer’s legendary devotion to his mother, Dolly Sinatra. The Sinatra-Thon will begin at ten in the morning on that day, and will continue at least until midnight – or quite possibly even later, into Sunday morning. The event will be curated and produced by Cary Hoffman (singer, composer, and producer, whose one-man show My Sinatra has been played in long runs in New York and at Performing Arts Centers and other venues in and around New York City and the United States) and Will Friedwald (columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of the well-received book on the singer, Sinatra! The Song is You.
Checkout a sample of the many performers at: thecuttingroomnyc.com/
The Cutting Room, 44 E. 32nd St.
10AM+  / $40 Daytime Ticket – $50 Evening Ticket – $80 All Day Ticket

Bonus – Music Venues:
So much fine live music every night in this town. These are a few of my favorite music venues on Manhattan’s WestSide. Check out who’s playing tonight:
City Winery – 155 Varick St., citywinery.com, 212-608-0555
Joe’s Pub @ Public Theater – 425 Lafayette St. joespub.com, 212-967-7555
Metropolitan Room – 34W22ndSt., metropolitan room.com, 212-206-0440
Le Poisson Rouge – 158 Bleecker St. lepoissonrouge.com, 212-505-3474
Beacon Theatre – 2124 Broadway @ 74th St., beacontheatre.com, 212-465-6500
B.B. King’s Blues Bar – 237W42nd dSt. bbkingblues.com, 212-997-2144
Special Mention:
Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. nr Bleecker St. caffevivaldi.com, 212-691-7538
a classic, old jazz club in the Village, Caffe V often surprises with a wonderfully eclectic lineup. It’s my favorite spot for an evening of listening enjoyment and discovery.

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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, with a population of  8.5 million, had a record 56 million visitors last year and is TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Top U.S. Destination for 2015.  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
My Fave Special Exhibitions – MUSEUMS / Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue
(See the New York Times Arts Section for listings of all museum exhibitions,
and also see the expanded reviews of these exhibitions)

Metropolitan Museum of Art:
‘Reimagining Modernism: 1900-1950’ (continuing)
One of the greatest encyclopedic museums in the world fulfills its mission a little more with an ambitious reinstallation of works of early European modernism with their American counterparts for the first time in nearly 30 years. Objects of design and paintings by a few self-taught artists further the integration. It is quite a sight, with interesting rotations and fine-tunings to come. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.” (Smith)

‘The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky’ (LAST 2 DAYS)
Some of the earliest surviving art by native North Americans left America long ago. Soldiers, traders and priests, with magpie eyes for brilliant things, bundled it up and shipped it across the sea to Europe. Painted robes, embroidered slippers and feathered headdresses tinkling with chimes found their way into cupboards in 18th-century London and Paris, and lay there half-forgotten. Now, with the arrival at the Met of this traveling show, some of those wondrous things — truly world masterpieces — have come home in an exhibition context that carries the Native American story from 100 B.C. into the 21st century. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)

‘Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Selects From The Met Collection’ (through June 14) Complementing the survey of his photographs, the artist has orchestrated 80 works from the museum’s holdings — along with a few of his own — into a mesmerizing display meditating on sex and death. Consisting mostly of photographs, it is bolstered by paintings by Dali and Cranach sculptures from several cultures and several surprises. Scratch any artist of note, even a post-modern one, and you often find a connoisseur. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)

‘Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Photographs’ (through Aug. 16)
A small but succinct survey of the multimedia bad-boy artist’s polymorphous relationship to photography shows him constantly changing scale, film and printing methods while exploring the medium’s ability to startle, seduce and become generic. He appropriates, imitates and pays homage as he goes, regularly invoking his Polish roots. Don’t miss the large photo-banners in the museum’s Great Hall or the massive fiber-sculpture monument to the eye and to insatiable looking. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)

Neue Galerie:
‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ (through Sept. 07)
“Of the approximately 125 items in this terrific show, there are only 11 oil paintings, which is a good thing. Except for a large picture of his wife, Edith, in a colorful striped dress, Schiele’s works on canvas are dark and turgid. But his drawings are nimble and nuanced. Working on paper with pencil, charcoal, ink, gouache, watercolor and crayons, he portrayed himself and others with infectious avidity. There’s hardly a single sheet here that doesn’t warrant close looking for its virtuoso draftsmanship and psychological acuity. 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, 212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org. “(Johnson)

Guggenheim Museum:
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.

El Museo del Barrio:
‘Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa, Art and Film’ (through June 27)
Painting with light is one way to define the cinematographer’s task, and it describes the art of Gabriel Figueroa (1907-1997), who worked with some of the leading international film directors of his time and was a national hero in his native Mexico, the supreme painter-in-light of Mexicanidad. How do you put this particular kind of art across in a museum — art that is as much about time as it is about material, as much about flux as it is about fixity? This show, which mixes Figueroa film clips with paintings and prints by some of Mexico’s greatest artists and in the process utterly transforms El Museo’s interior spaces, gives an enthralling answer. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem, 212-831-7272, elmuseo.org. (Cotter)

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (continuing):
The stately doors of the 1902 Andrew Carnegie mansion, home to the Cooper Hewitt, are open again after an overhaul and expansion of the premises. Historic house and modern museum have always made an awkward fit, a standoff between preservation and innovation, and the problem remains, but the renovation has brought a wide-open new gallery space, a cafe and a raft of be-your-own-designer digital enhancements. Best of all, more of the museum’s vast permanent collection is now on view, including an Op Art weaving, miniature spiral staircases, ballistic face masks and a dainty enameled 18th-century version of a Swiss knife. Like design itself, this institution is built on tumult and friction, and you feel it. 2 East 91st Street, at Fifth Avenue, 212-849-8400, cooperhewitt.org. (Cotter)

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Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Nine 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
Last, but certainly not least, America’s premier museum
• 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although 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.
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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar dated 05/07 and 05/05.

Today’s TOP 10 – FRIDAY, MAY 08, 2015
“We search the internet everyday looking for the very best of What’s Happening,
primarily Manhattan’s WestSide, so that you don’t have to. We make it as easy as 1-2-3.
(click on links for complete event info)

Music, Dance, Performing Arts
> Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival (through May 9)
Tonight’s Highlight: Joaquin Pozo – Afro Cuban
Showmans Jazz Club, 375 W125th St. / 9:30PM, no cover
> Stanley Clarke Band (through May 10)
Blue Note, 131 West Third St., Greenwich Village / 8PM and 10:30PM, $30+$45
> Global Beat Festival With Niyaz and Emel Mathlouthi
Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St. / 8PM, FREE
> The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Guest Vocalist Carmen Bradford
Birdland, 315 W. 44th St. / 8:30PM + 11PM, $45
> World Nomads Tunisia Weekend (through Sunday)
Tonight: Sonia M’Barek
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th St. / 7:30PM, $20
> Ruthie Foster
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. / 8PM, $35

Smart Stuff / Other
(Lectures, Discussions, Book Talks, Literary Readings, Classes, Food & Drink, Other)
> The Money Series | The Social, Legal, and Political Life of Money
Columbia University, 116th St. & Broadway / 12:30-6:30PM, FREE
> “If These Walls Could Talk” with Jim Kaat on the New York Yankees
Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. / &PM, $15
Elsewhere, but STREB is always worth the the detour:
> PEN World Voices Festival (through May 10)
Tonight: Risky Talking
STREB@SLAM, 51 North 1st St., Brooklyn / 7PM, $30
> RadioLoveFest (through May 10)
Tonight: Death, Sex & Money
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave / 7:30PM, $20

Have time for only one event? Do this:
Risky Talking
With Laura Flanders, Donna Hylton, Piper Kerman, Elizabeth Streb

Piper Kerman, whose memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison was adapted into an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning original series for Netflix, and Donna Hylton, a Community Health Advocate for Coming Home, a program that addresses the medical and psychosocial needs of formerly incarcerated people during the transition from prison/jail back to the community team up with MacArthur “Genius” Fellow choreographer Elizabeth Streb and best-selling author and broadcaster Laura Flanders to discuss the nature of risk-taking.

This rollicking inquiry includes an action event designed by STREB, and that’s why this is my top pick today. You ain’t seen nothing until you have seen STREB in action!
STREB@SLAM, 51 North 1st Street, Brooklyn / 7:00PM
Tickets: $30 | Special Discount Code. Enter RISKYSTREB at checkout for $15 tickets.

Bonus – Jazz Venues:
Many consider NYCity the Jazz capital of the world. Here are my favorite Jazz clubs, all on Manhattan’s WestSide. Check out who’s playing tonight:
Greenwich Village:
Village Vanguard – 178 7th Ave. South — villagevanguard.com / 212-255-4037
Blue Note – 131 W3rd St. nr 6th ave. — bluenotejazz.com / 212-475-8592
55 Bar – 55 Christopher St. nr 7th ave.S. — 55bar.com / 212-929-9883
Outside Greenwich Village:
Dizzy’s Club – Broadway @ 60th St. — jazz.org/dizzys / 212-258-9595
Birdland – 315 W44th St.(btw 8/9ave) — birdlandjazz.com / 212-581-3080
Smoke Jazz Club – 2751 Broadway nr.106th St. — smokejazz.com / 212-864-6662
Special Mention:
Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. nr Bleecker St. — caffevivaldi.com / 212-691-7538
a classic, old jazz club in the Village, Caffe V often surprises with a wonderfully eclectic lineup. It’s my favorite spot for an evening of listening enjoyment and discovery.

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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, with a population of  8.5 million, had a record 56 million visitors last year and is TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Top U.S. Destination for 2015.  Quality shows draw crowds. Try to reserve seats in advance, even if just on day of performance.
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A PremierPub / West Village

Corner Bistro / 331 W. 4th St.

Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.

In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town.

The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro celebrated it’s 50th anniversary last year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.

Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.

Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening, in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.

For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).
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Website: cornerbistrony.com
Phone #: 212-242-9502
Hours: 11:30am-4am Mon-Sat; 12pm-4am Sun
Happy Hour: NO
Music: Juke Box
Subway: #1/2/3 to 14th St. (S end of platform)
Walk 2 blk W. on 13th St. to 8th Ave.; 1 blk S. on 8th Ave. to Jane St.
Update:

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“Pub” is used in it’s broadest sense – bars, bar/restaurants, jazz clubs, wine bars, tapas bars, craft beer bars, dive bars, cocktail lounges, and of course, pubs – just about anyplace you can get a drink without a cover charge (except for certain jazz clubs).

If you have a fave premier pub or good eating place on Manhattan’s WestSide let us all know about it – leave a comment.

Today’s TOP 10 – THURSDAY, MAY 07, 2015
“We search the internet everyday looking for the very best of What’s Happening,
primarily Manhattan’s WestSide, so that you don’t have to. We make it as easy as 1-2-3.
(click on links for complete event info)

Music, Dance, Performing Arts
> Stanley Clarke Band (through May 10)
Blue Note, 131 West Third St., Greenwich Village / 8PM and 10:30PM,
>The Claudia Quintet  (through May 8)
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. / 8:30+10:30PM, $10
> Global Beat Festival With the Libyans + The Feedel Band
Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St. / 8PM, FREE
>The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Guest Vocalist Carmen Bradford
Birdland, 315 W. 44th St. / 8:30PM + 11PM, $45

Smart Stuff / Other
(Lectures, Discussions, Book Talks, Literary Readings, Classes, Food & Drink, Other)
> PEN World Voices Festival (through May 10)
Today’s Highlight: “Writing Gender”
Albertine Books in French and English, 972 Fifth Avenue (at 79th St.) /  7PM, FREE
> Grand Gourmet, The Flavor of Midtown (fundraiser for homeless programs)
Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, 89 East 42nd St. / 7PM, $125
> Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life (Joyce Carol Oates & Stephen Sondheim)
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. / 7PM, $20
>Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival  (through May 9)
Today’s Highlight: Jazz and the Spirit: Freedom Now, Again
Union Theological Seminary, James Chapel, 3041 Broadway at 121st St. / 4PM, FREE
> Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn
Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave. / 6:30PM, FREE
Elsewhere, but looks worth the detour:
> RadioLoveFest (through May 10)
Tonight: “Wait Wait. . .Don’t Tell Me!”
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave / 7:30PM, $35

Have time for only one event? Do this:
Global Beat Festival With the Libyans + The Feedel Band
Experience the hottest bands from around the world in a global explosion of music and dance in the magnificent Winter Garden at Brookfield Place!

“Tonight kicks off a wide-ranging three-day festival of music from around the globe that puts a contemporary, largely beat-conscious spin on traditional styles. This evening’s bands are from North and East Africa. One of the bands, the Libyans, though based in neighboring Israel, offers rollicking music that mixes Arabic and Turkish influences with the enduring spirit of the Jews who settled in Libya. The Feedel Band is a fiery ensemble that recalls what happened when hot jazz and funk came to Ethiopia back in the ’60s.” (seniorplanet.org)

Global Beat Festival explores music from around the world befitting the stunning acoustics of the magnificent glass-vaulted Winter Garden. Each night pairs two groups from different traditions for an unforgettable 3-day experience from May 7–9, 2015.
Thursday, May 7: The Libyans, Feedel Band
Friday, May 8: Niyaz, Emel Mathlouthi
Saturday, May 9: Flavia Coelho, Guayo Cedeño + Coco Bar

The Libyans give new life to the fascinating, sacred music of the Jews of Libya. Based in Israel, the six-member ensemble’s sound gains influence from Arabic, African and Turkish culture. Accompanied by guest dancers, The Feedel Band performs music inspired by the golden age of Ethiopia merged with 1960s jazz and R&B.
Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St
8:00PM – 10:00PM / FREE
artsbrookfield.com

Bonus Music Picks:
So much fine live music every night in this town. These are a few of my favorite music venues on Manhattan’s WestSide. Check out who’s playing tonight:
City Winery – 155 Varick St., citywinery.com, 212-608-0555
Joe’s Pub @ Public Theater – 425 Lafayette St. joespub.com, 212-967-7555
Metropolitan Room – 34W22ndSt., metropolitan room.com, 212-206-0440
Le Poisson Rouge – 158 Bleecker St. lepoissonrouge.com, 212-505-3474
Beacon Theatre – 2124 Broadway @ 74th St., beacontheatre.com, 212-465-6500
B.B. King’s Blues Bar – 237W42nd dSt. bbkingblues.com, 212-997-2144
Special Mention:
Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. nr Bleecker St. caffevivaldi.com, 212-691-7538
a classic, old jazz club in the Village, Caffe V often surprises with a wonderfully eclectic lineup. It’s my favorite spot for an evening of listening enjoyment and discovery.

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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, with a population of  8.5 million, had a record 56 million visitors last year and is TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Top U.S. Destination for 2015.  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
My Fave Special Exhibitions – MUSEUMS / Manhattan’s WestSide
(See the New York Times Arts Section for listings of all museums,
and also to see the expanded reviews of these exhibitions)

Museum of Modern Art:
‘One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North’ (through Sept. 7)
“In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of African Americans left the rural South for the industrial North in search of jobs, homes and respect. Officially, this MoMA show is meant to mark the centennial of that immense population shift, though it also marks another anniversary: the first time in two decades that all 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence’s great “Migration Series,” now divided between New York and Washington, D.C., have been shown together at the museum. Here they are surrounded by period photographs, books and fabulous music in a display as stimulating to the mind and the ear as it is to the eye. 212-708-9400, moma.org.” (Cotter)

American Folk Art Museum:
‘When the Curtain Never Comes Down’ (through July 5)
“A sprawling, cacophony of objects, audiotapes, photographs and films is here orchestrated into a curatorial marvel. Strange and wonderful in numerous ways, the show sheds new light on the performance aspects of much outsider art while reminding us how eccentricity is not only basic to creativity but to personal liberty and democracy itself. 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 212-595-9533, folkartmuseum.org.” (Roberta Smith)

Museum of Arts and Design:
‘Richard Estes: Painting New York City’ (through Sept. 20)
“The core of this show is a selection of vivid, Photorealist paintings of urban subjects like glass and chrome storefronts, movie theater marquees, cars and trucks, subways, the Brooklyn Bridge, views from the Staten Island Ferry and idyllic images of Central Park made between 1965 and 2015. The exhibition also includes didactic sections about the craft and technique that go into Mr. Estes painting and prints, but that aspect doesn’t fully deliver what it promises. 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 212-299-7777,madmuseum.org.”(Johnson). I LOVE THIS ONE.

Museum of Biblical Art:
‘Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces From Florence Cathedral’ (through June 14) “This terrific 23-piece show features three major works by the early Renaissance sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), including the life-size statue of a bald prophet known as “lo Zuccone” or “Pumpkin Head,” which is widely considered the sculptor’s greatest work. Along with a half-dozen other works by or attributed to Donatello are sculptures by Nanni di Banco (circa 1386-1421), Donatello’s main competitor, including his monumental representation in marble of St. Luke. With the addition of a series of octagonal marble reliefs by Luca della Robbia and wooden models of the Florence Cathedral’s enormous dome attributed to its designer, Filippo Brunelleschi, the exhibition amounts to a tightly cropped snapshot of the birth of the Renaissance. 1865 Broadway, at 61st Street, 212-408-1500, mobia.org.”(Johnson)

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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar dated 05/05 and 05/03.