MUSIC
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 16 - 21, 2019 (continuing through JUNE 2, 2019)
11:15 AM & 12:30, 3:00 & 4:30 PM TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & SUNDAY
1:00, 2:30, 5:00 & 6:30 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY

Reich Richter Pärt
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan

$52
https://theshed.org/program/2-reich-richter-part

This show is both quite good and somewhat dispiriting.  It is an almost discorporate collaboration among three major international artists.  And yes, the three principals are all undeniably great (the new piece Steve Reich wrote for this show is especially good, maybe the best thing he's written in years -- perhaps because, as he has noted, Gerhard Richter's artistic approach impelled him to recur in part to the style of his early years).   But another outlet for Major Collaborative Works by the Established International Avant-Garde isn't going to make at least one visitor forgive the epic scar on the urban fabricthis real estate development represents, built for the ultra-rich with money filched from taxpayers.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  If you go to one of the early shows, you can avail yourself of Kāwi, the most forthrightly Korean (which is not to say it's straight Korean) of the Momofukus -- or its adjacent sandwich/snack bar.  Later on, you might try the meatcentric food at restaurant/butcher shop Belcampo -- although it seems emblematic that the delicious dishes they served to the elite guests (and me) at the Hudson Yards preview reception the night before opening were much more interesting, and infinitely better prepared, than what actually appears on the menu.