Next Saturday, March 18, I will be doing Upper East Side galleries. Agnès Varda, Sterling Ruby, Lawrence Weiner, Forrest Bess, Andy Warhol, Robert Mangold. But I have to be back in Chelsea for a performance of Hanne Darboven’s music at Dia at 3pm.
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On Saturday, March 25, Lygia Pape’s Divisor (Divider) performance, will go from the The Met Fifth Avenue to The Met Breuer, 11:00am-12:00pm, as part of the exhibition, Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms, opening March 21 at Met Breuer. She is not to be confused with Lygia Clark, who had an exhibition at MoMA in 2014. All three shows will be up (Pape, along with Marsden Hartley and Marisa Merz), so I will probably go on this day.
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Other upcoming shows:
Whitney Biennial, opens March 17
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid, a nine-hour version of her dance Vortex Temporum made for museum exhibition, at MoMA, March 25-April 2
Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Les Lalanne, at Paul Kasmin, March 16-April 22
Max Ernst, Paul Kasmin, March 30-May 13
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, MoMA, includes a film by Jonathas de Andrade, March 19–July 30, 2017. Also, An Evening with Jonathas De Andrade, at MoMA, Monday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Frank Heath: Blue Room
Swiss In Situ, until March 19
Frank Heath, still from The Hollow Coin, 2016
Two videos, about 20 minutes each, both funny and unnerving, are worth watching in full. Most exhibitions of video work are painful to endure, as if the curators were trying to avoid accusations of “spectacle” by making viewers stand in front of giant screens for long stretches wearing uncomfortable earphones, but this one is excellently installed. Benches are graciously provided for viewers who actually want to watch the videos, which (graciously) play, one after the other, on two different screens in the same space. A translucent screen holds a third image, which echoes the mise en scène of the two films. Together the three screens form a kind of panorama in the darkened gallery. The panorama extends, conceptually, outside the gallery, as both films involve nearby buildings. One of these is the Long Lines Building, the ominous, windowless behemoth on Thomas Street that makes everyone feel like IT from A Wrinkle In Time is bearing down on them. The other is said to be near City Hall (I did not investigate). The films are not so much films, however, as illustrated voice recordings made for this specific space.
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Heinz Mack
Sperone Westwater, until March 25
If you need to get happy, come to this show. Watch the documentary, Tele-Mack, showing on the second floor. It is narrated by a nasal British voice that is hilarious, but even through the ridiculousness you sense a sincere joy. Psychedelic visuals. About 40 minutes.
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Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by Hilton Als
David Zwirner, until April 22
Alice Neel, Two Puerto Rican Boys, 1956
I did not expect to like this show, but this is because I have only seen her late work, and only online. I felt like I could SMELL these people.
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The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers
Metropolitan Museum of Art, until May 21
Hercules Segers, Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields, ca 1625-30
A great show, although I was a little grossed out by John Malkovich’s narration of an arch trailer for the show that you can hear playing in the galleries. The exhibition sells Segers a little too hard, calling him a genius, an early modernist, even a surrealist; but the enthusiasm seems justified, because the prints are exciting. They are almost all of dreamy, surreal, and somewhat foggy landscapes. Most of the prints on view are duplicates hanging side by side, all painted differently. This seriality reinforces the feeling that one is looking at a kind of diary of different nighttime dream visits to the same landscape. Several of his paintings, at least one of which is great, are also on view.
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Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983
Dia:Chelsea, until July 29
I still do not know quite what to make of this gigantic work, but doing a little reading since visiting the show I have come to learn that I am not alone.
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Film
Jean Eustache, The Mother and the Whore, at Film Society of Lincoln Center, Wednesday, March 29, at 7:00, and Monday, April 3, at 2:30, as part of a Jean Pierre Léaud festival. This film is on my Cahiers du Cinema Top 100 list (only 30 left!), but it has proven difficult to find. There’s a Japanese DVD and a bootleg VHS transfer to DVR available online, but these are not really options, are they? The...Whore is about four hours long. I will see this on April 3 because of a conflict. The last time FSLC did a Léaud thingy they showed Nouvelle Vague (remember, JG?)another film not yet on a readily available DVD, but, alas.
Speaking of Léaud. He’s in The Death of Louis XIV, directed by Albert Serra, opens at FSLC on March 29. Good reviews.
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New Olivier Assayas, with Kristen Stewart, playing herself….aaa-gain, in Personal Shopper. IFC and BAM.
Jonathas de Andrade, O Peixe, with four other shorts, at BAM, March 29, 7pm (part of Migrating Forms; also showing at New Museum)
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Dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid, a nine-hour version of her dance Vortex Temporum made for museum exhibition, at MoMA, March 25-April 2
Mark Morris at BAM Curlew River, by Benjamin Britten Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:30pm
Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:30pm
Friday, March 17, 2017 7:30pm
Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:30pm Sunday, March 19, 2017 3pm
Juilliard Dances Repertory, with the Juilliard Orchestra and Chamber Music program Sheer Bravado (2006), choreography by Richard Alston; Shostakovich, Concerto no. 1 for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35 Por Vos Muero (1996), choreography by Nacho Duato; music by Jordi Savall V (2001), choreography by Mark Morris, Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
March 22, 23, 24, 7:30, $30
March 25, 2:00 & 7:30, $30
Doug Varone and Dancers, BAM Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:30
Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:30
Friday, March 31, 2017 7:30
Saturday, April 1, 2017 7:30
Joffrey Ballet, Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, at Joyce Theater March 29, 7:30
March 30, 7:00
March 31, 8:00
April 1, 2:00
April 1, 8:00
April 2, 1:00
Ailey II, at Skirball March 29, 7:30
March 30, 7:30
March 31, 8:00
April 1, 2:00
April 1, 8:00
Plus E.K.’s picks?
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Music
Morton Feldman: The Late Piano Works, at Spectrum Sunday, March 12th at 3PM: Jed Distler plays Triadic Memories (1981)
Sunday, March 19th at 7PM: Tania Chen plays For Bunita Marcus (1985)
Sunday, March 26th at 7PM: Nils Vigeland plays Piano (1977) & Palais de Mari (1986)
Tristan Perich at The Kitchen
March 17 & 18, 8:00 p.m., $20 ($30 for both evenings) https://vimeo.com/12244413
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Kabir Carter: Feelings are Rooms
March 23, Issue Project Room, 22 Boerum, Brooklyn, 8pm, FREE ($10 donation)
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Deathprod (Helge Sten) / Jeremy Gara
March 28, Issue Project Room, 8pm, $15
Composers Concordance
American Festival of Microtonal Music
Svjetlana Bukvich, Monroe Golden, Dan Cooper, Johnny Reinhard, Zach Seely, David Taylor, Joseph Pehrson
7 p.m. Gallery MC, 549 W. 52nd St., $15
Monday, March 13
Mozart: Idomeneo, 7:30, Met Opera
Sheer Pluck and Bodies Electric
Sharon Harms, soprano; Rodrigo Vega, baritone; Joan Forsyth, pianist
Luke Gopnik-Parker: untitled; Nick Anton: Gantry Plaza; Emil Awad: Fouad; Frank Brickle: Ab nou cor; Stephan Chatman: Five Songs; Willam Anderson: Poema harmonico; Daniel Conant: Personals; Angel Mendez Barrios: Tema Variado y Finale; Michael Donovan: Three and a Half of These; Charles Wuorinen: Dodecadactyl; Charles Wuorinen: Electric Quartet (world premiere)
8 p.m. Tenri Cultural Institute, FREE
Tuesday, March 14
Verdi: La Traviata, 7:30, Met Opera
Lysander Piano Trio
Views of Ireland (Irish songs by various composers)
Hindemith (1895-1963) Sonata No. 4 for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 (1919)
Gilad Cohen (b. 1980) Around the Cauldron (2016)
Fauré (1845-1924) Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 (1879)
Weill, 7:30, $25
Wednesday, March 15
Gounod: Romeo and Juliette, 7:30 Met Opera
Mark Morris Dance Group
MMDG Music Ensemble
Britten: Curlew River
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Isaiah Bell, Stephanie Blythe, Douglas Williams
7:30 p.m. BA
Thursday, March 16
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center “New Music” Tanguy Sonata for Two Violins (2010) Hersant Im fremden Land for Clarinet, Two Violins, Viola, Cello, and Piano (2002) Neuburger Plein Ciel for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano (2013) Connesson Sextet for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Bass, and Piano (1997) Rose Studio, 6:30 and 9:00, $35
Friday, March 17
Duo X88, ACME, Dither Vicky Chow, pianist Tristan Perich: world premiere for two pianos Tristan Perich: Noise Patterns Tristan Perich: Interference Logic 8 p.m. The Kitchen, $20 ($30 for Friday and Saturday)
Saturday, March 18
Hanne Darboven, Opus 17B 3 pm, Dia:Chelsea, $8
So Percussion JACK Quartet Mariel Roberts, cellist Tristan Perich: Sequential Tristan Perich: Formations 8 p.m. The Kitchen, $20 ($30 for Friday and Saturday)
Sunday, March 19
Mark Morris Dance Group MMDG Music Ensemble Britten: Curlew River Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Isaiah Bell, Stephanie Blythe, Douglas Williams 3 p.m. BAM
Morton Feldman: The Late Piano Works Tania Chen, pianist Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus 7 p.m. Spectrum, $15
Monday, March 20
Gilles Vonsattel, pianist
Jay Campbell, cellist
Paul Appleby, tenor
Janacek: Fairy Tale
Janacek: “1.X.1905”
Ives: selected songs
7:30 p.m. John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio/Baryshnikov Arts Center, $20
Beethoven: Fidelio, 7:30 Met Opera
LoftOpera
Rossini: Otello
Bernard Holcomb, Cecilia Violette Lopez, Thor Arbjornsson, Blake Friedman
Sean Kelly, conductor
Door at 7 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. LightSpace Studios, Bushwick, $30
Tuesday, March 21
Jocelyn Stewart, harpsichord Frescobaldi, Partite sopra un aria: Romana detta la Manista Couperin, Prelude No.7 from L’Art de toucher le clavecin (ordre sixieme de clavecin) Froberger, Toccata in G Major from Tombeau fait a paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche J.S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in G Major from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 Scarlatti, Four Late Sonatas Manhattan School of Music, 7:30, FREE
Wednesday, March 22
International Street Cannibals Pärt: Fratres Zemlinsky: Imelin Rose und andere Gesänge, Op. 7, No. 2 “Entbietung” Webern: 5 songs from Der siebente Ring, Op. 3 Brahms: Funf Lieder, Op. 47, “Botschaft” Berg: Sieben Frühe Lieder, No. 3 “Nachtigall” Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 Berg: “Schliesse mir die Augen beide” Korngold: “Glückwunsch” Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Stucke Schoenberg: Vier Lieder, Op. 2 “Erhebung” Schnittke: Silent Night Schubert: Erlkönig 7:30 p.m. St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, $20 at door
Thursday, March 23
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Late Night Rose”
Prokofiev Sonata in C major for Two Violins, Op. 56 (1932)
Lyapunov Sextet in B-flat minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, Cello, and Bass, Op. 63 (1915, rev. 1921)
SOLD OUT – LIVE STREAM ONLY ON CMS WEBSITE, 9:00 PM
Kabir Carter: Feelings are Rooms March 23, Issue Project Room, 22 Boerum, Brooklyn, 8pm, FREE ($10 donation)
Friday, March 24
Beethoven: Fidelio, 7:30, Met Opera
New York Baroque Incorporated
Donald Hyde, conductor
Haydn: Symphony No. 49
C.P.E. Bach: Klopstocks Morgengesang Am Schöpfungsfeste
C.P.E. Bach: St. John Passion
7:30 p.m. Saint Thomas Church, $40^
Juilliard Dances Repertory
with the Juilliard Orchestra and Chamber Music program Sheer Bravado (2006), choreography by Richard Alston; Shostakovich, Concerto no. 1 for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35 Por Vos Muero (1996), choreography by Nacho Duato; music by Jordi Savall V (2001), choreography by Mark Morris, Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 7:30, $30
The Barnard-Columbia Chorus performs Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Church of the Ascension, 107th St., 8:00, $5
Saturday, March 25
Mozart: Idomeneo, 1:00, Met Opera
Juilliard Dances Repertory
with the Juilliard Orchestra and Chamber Music program Sheer Bravado (2006), choreography by Richard Alston; Shostakovich, Concerto no. 1 for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35 Por Vos Muero (1996), choreography by Nacho Duato; music by Jordi Savall V (2001), choreography by Mark Morris, Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 2:00 & 7:30, $30
LoftOpera
Rossini: Otello
Bernard Holcomb, Cecilia Violette Lopez, Thor Arbjornsson, Blake Friedman
Sean Kelly, conductor
Door at 7 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. LightSpace Studios, Bushwick, $30
Morton Feldman: The Late Piano Works Nils Vigeland, pianist Morton Feldman: Piano Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari 7 p.m. Spectrum, $15
Monday, March 27
Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and Attacca Quartet: Last Words Schütz — Excerpts, Seven Last Words of Christ and St. Matthew Passion Haydn — Excerpts, Seven Last Words of Christ (version for string quartet) Wolfgang Rihm — Seven Passion Texts (New York premiere) David Lang — little match girl passion Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway 7:30, FREE, no reservations, doors at 6:45
Tuesday, March 28
Bach: “ST. JOHN” PASSION, BWV 245 The Choir of New College, Oxford; The English Concert Players; Nick Pritchard (Evangelist), Robert Quinney, conductor St. Barts, 325 Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets 7:30 pm, $40
Deathprod (Helge Sten) / Jeremy Gara
March 28, Issue Project Room, 8pm, $15
Wednesday, March 29
Jonathas de Andrade, five films, including O Peixe, 7:00, BAM
Thursday, March 30
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, 7:30, Met Opera
Diderot String Quartet
Back to the Future: The Legacy of the Fugue
Bach – Art of the Fugue
Mendelssohn – Fugue in E-flat Major
Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13
The Kosciuszko Foundation, 7:30, $30
Jasper String Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Missy Mazzoli: Death Valley Junction
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major (“American”)
David Rubenstin Atrium, 7:30, FREE
Ensemble Signal
Brad Lubman, conductor
Adams: Shaker Loops
Riley: In C
7:30 p.m. Zankel Hall/Carnegie Hall, $64^
Mitsuko Uchida, pianist
Mozart: Piano Sonata, K. 545
Schumann: Kreisleriana
Jörg Widmann: Sonatina facile
Schumann: Fantasy in C Major
8 p.m. Carnegie Hall,$76^
String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Matt Frey/Tim Hansen/Molly Heron: Solo
8 p.m. Roulette, $20
Wall to Wall featuring Steve Reich
Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, FREE
Segment 1: 3pm-5pm
Piano Counterpoint (1973, arr. 2011 by Vincent Corver) performed by Vicky Chow
WTC 9/11 (2010) performed by Mivos Quartet
Electric Counterpoint (1987) performed by Mark Stewart, Dither, and friends
Sidewalk, set to Double Sextet (2007) performed by Keigwin + Company
Segment 2: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Clapping Music (1972); City Life (1995) performed by Alarm Will Sound
Steve Reich and Alan Pierson in Conversation
Four Genesis Settings from The Cave (1990-1993, arr. 2013 by Alan Pierson)
New York Counterpoint (1985); Radio Rewrite (2013) performed by Alarm Will Sound
Segment 3: 8pm-10pm
Different Trains (1988) performed by Mivos Quartet
Steve Reich and Alan Pierson in Conversation
Desert Music (1983, brass arr. 2001 by Alan Pierson) performed by American Composers Orchestra
Cantata Profana
“Two-Part Invention”
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Bach, Kurtag, Vivier, Cage, et al.
Joe’s Pub, 9:30, $15
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Tan Dun
Tan Dun: Terracotta Symphony and Hero Concerto
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 7:00, $65-85
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