Two notes: The supine choir was performance art that will be repeated during the run (through November 30). And there was evidently a plaque I didn’t notice; it’s a work by Jankowski expressing his “desire to be interred, in the event of his death, on the grounds of City Hall Park.”

Lo and behold, the opening of Museum was last night. The founders—Alex Kalman (son of Maira and Tibor Kalman) and Josh and Benny Safdie (their great uncle is architect Morris Safdie)—are displaying everyday objects from around the world, each of which has a story attached. You can read the stories in the pamphlet—presumably available when Museum is open Friday through Sunday—or call a toll-free number, press the object’s code, and listen (the instructions, objects, and codes are visible 24/7 through plexiglass panels in the door). The mission statement explains the philosophy: “The space intends to show respect for the everyday, and displays the often overlooked beauty of real life. There is always beauty and magic in the plebian.” If this sounds like the kind of whimsy you’d come across at Partners & Spade, well, the Spades helped fund it.

I hoped to take a photo of the three guys and ask some questions, but the party swelled with the young and the artsy. The invitation had mentioned that Rudy Giuliani would be attending, which was amusing on paper, but as the possibility loomed, my enthusiasm waned. Those boys may be too young to recall the Decency Commission, among other choice moments. Besides, my pug was expecting his dinner.

Go check Museum out—it’s the kind of quirk that’s been developed out of existence around here. It’s in Cortlandt Alley—like Staple Street, but much cooler—between Franklin and White.

AIRE ANCIENT BATHS
A bathhouse from a Spanish company. UPDATE: Now open.

AAMANNS/COPENHAGEN
Danish restaurant specializing in smørrebrød.

DEMI MONDE
The bar part (at 90 Broad) is open; the café will follow.

ASPHALT GREEN BATTERY PARK CITY
Teaching us all to exercise our patience.

JEAN
(Right) Dr. Michel Cohen of Tribeca Pediatrics is opening a lunch café/wine bar.

ALL GOOD THINGS
European-style food hall with restaurant.

SUSHI OF GARI
Popular uptown sushi mini-chain.

FIKA
Swedish café and chocolatier.

THE BUTTERFLY
A bar with food from chef Michael White’s company (Marea, Osterini Morini).

ROBIN BROUILLETTE
Tribeca designer’s shop on W. Broadway.

CITIBANK
Said to be taking over a prominent spot; now not so sure….

TRIBECA CANVAS
Masaharu Morimoto’s non-Japanese restaurant.

CHIPOTLE
(Right) Work has started on the second location in the area.

THE ELEVENS
Crowdsourced restaurant where membership gets privileges.

NEAR AND FAR FOOD COMPANY
Big restaurant and bar in eastern Tribeca. (Is this iffy too? The space has been gutted for a while.)

AMERICAN FLATBREAD
Vermont pizza chain’s first New York outpost.

LITTLE ONE
Restaurant coming to the old Columbine space.

27 DESBROSSES RESTAURANT AND BAR
Anchor Bar is opening a bar and restaurant.

THE FLEA
The theater company is moving.

SHINOLA
Steven Alan’s parent company is reinventing the shoe polish brand.

73 WARREN
(Right) Prepared food.

TETSU
Chef Masa Takayama’s teppanyaki restaurant.

BARRY’S BOOTCAMP
Group-fitness studio.

DUXIANA
Swedish beds and furniture.

SUPERSTAR GYM
In Truffles Tribeca.

MULINO A VINO
Italian wine bar and restaurant.

BENARES
(Right) Indian restaurant on Murray.

BALCONY CAFÉ
Bar and restaurant in the old Mocca space (iffy).

AQUA STUDIO
Group aquatic-fitness facility.

TEMPLE COURT HOTEL AND CONDOS
In the marvelous 5 Beekman.

MAY 23–SEPTEMBER 4
“The Clocktower Gallery presents Nervescape, a site-specific exhibition by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter, on view to the public from May 23 to September 4, 2012. Shoplifter’s sculptures, drawings and installations explore themes of vanity, beauty, and beastly mythology, as well as notions of obsession and fetish. In the Clocktower’s Upper Gallery, Shoplifter makes use of a large existing metal structure as the skeleton for an organic, enveloping installation that is both a landscape and a beast, activating the space and engulfing the viewer in its cavernous entrails.”

THROUGH LABOR DAY
“On the heels of its successful Made in New York exhibition, the South Street Seaport Museum will open Made in New York II on May 16. Like its predecessor, the new exhibition will highlight contemporary counterparts to the productive industries that once populated the Seaport district.”

JUNE 3
“On Sunday, June 3 at 2:45 p.m., a special screening of Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar nominated Best Foreign Language Film, In Darkness (Poland, 2011, 114 min.), will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. A discussion with Krystyna Chiger Keren, the last living member of the group dramatized in the film, will follow the screening.”

JUNE 8–JULY 7
“Hionas Gallery is pleased to present Microphone Check, a multi-media exhibition comprised of new sculpture, mixed media collage, and abstract paintings by Karlos Cárcamo. For this show the artist introduces the union of seemingly disparate forms, joining hard edge painting and graffiti tagging, sculptures that mimic the gestural three-dimensional movement of spray paint, and the constructed nature of city landscapes vs. hard edge abstraction.”

JUNE 9–17
The ARChive of Contemporary Music‘s Surfin’ Summer Record & CD sale is at 54 White St. every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

AUGUST 5–6
Cowboy Junkies play City Winery. I bought my tickets already. Last time, I sat next to a woman who insisted on talking during my favorite song—even after I told her it was my favorite song! (This is the song; the fan-made Sims video is priceless.)

AUGUST 8, 21, 29; SEPTEMBER 5
Joan Osborne plays City Winery.

AUGUST 25–26
Taj Mahal play City Winery.

••• JCP’s pop-up shop is now online.

••• Per a tweet from @TibiTaylor: “USPS moving from Peck Slip to 114 John St on June 4.” The old USPS building at Peck Slip will become a school.

••• From New Amsterdam Market: “Please join us this Sunday for our second Gathering of Fisheries, which will bring together local fishmongers, shellfish vendors, chefs, and other supporters of a revived Fulton Fish Market site for a day of celebrating our coasts and the bounty they provide. [...] In addition to the fisheries, nearly 40 regular New Amsterdam Market vendors will be present—including Flying Fox, making her season debut with fresh-picked strawberries from Maryland—so check out the full list on our website.”

••• A note in the window of Seaport restaurant SamSara says it’s reopening soon with a new chef and a new menu.

••• From local art furniture designers Cmmnwlth: “A furniture show of ours (for ICFF, with three other U.S. designers) opens at Mondo Cane tonight 6–9 p.m. The exhibit is called “No Frontier”: and it’s co-curated by Volume Gallery of Chicago. We’ll be presenting the entire Seltanica series consisting of a family of lights, a wall mounted hook and an umbrella stand.”

••• From a reader: “I’m the parent of a Spruce Street School student. Last night the school held a fundraiser on the school’s rooftop playground, which sits below the west side of the Gehry tower. Harry’s Italian donated excellent food, local wine merchants donated cases of vino, and someone renting one of the apartments above the party donated several brown eggs, which came splattering down on the parents. If the party was that noisy, wouldn’t a call to the doormen of the building to do something about it have been the easiest thing to do? Spruce Street School and the Gehry tower co-exist in the same building. I know a relationship exists between building management and school staff because they’ve had to meet and discuss the beer bottles another tenant (or the same?) previously rained down on the playground. What’s next? If recess gets too noisy should parents and school staff need to worry that someone is going to injure the kids? That behavior is disgusting. A doorman could have easily called the school to complain, or simply walked around the corner and said something to the security staff in the school lobby. People in this city are really gross.” It’s true! But they’re gross everywhere.

••• From the Department of Transportation: “The New York City Department of Transportation today announced the installation of a prototype for the agency’s first-ever outdoor art display case at TriBeCa’s Bogardus Plaza on Hudson Street between Chambers and Reade streets. The model, designed by Architecture Research Office, will be in place for one month to observe the design’s performance in an outdoor environment. Last fall, DOT issued a challenge to designers, asking them to reinvent the fixed display cases seen in museums and galleries as a moveable piece for outdoor use. ARO’s design was selected for implementation. The goal is to temporarily install display cases in pedestrian plazas and other areas within the public realm to create new opportunities for displaying art such as photos, paintings and collages.” Call me old-fashioned, but I think parks should be a respite from manmade visual stimulation.

••• From Manhattan Youth: “The Art Shack is a place where kids can get together for special art projects or to participate in the creation of  murals we are now making at Pier 25. The Mural Project is an on-going project and one day we hope to wrap the entire pier in children’s murals.” Let’s see if I can piss even more people off: I’m not sure how I feel about that last part, actually. Is kids’ art not best appreciated on the family’s fridge?

••• From a reader: “Janet Newman is opening a show of her very unique flower paintings [tonight] at the Sovereign Bank at corner of Franklin and Hudson, 5:30 to 8 p.m.”

••• Something called Delmonico’s Café wants to open at 300 Spring (between Hudson and Renwick, where Sora Lella used to be).

••• 481 Washington—just north of Canal—is being marketed as the Spice Warehouse (as if the real spice warehouse isn’t further south). No clue if this is new; I don’t walk up that part of Washington very often.

••• I’m pretty sure this is about whether to allow residential development on Pier 40: “The Hudson River Park Trust has been working with a task force comprised of elected officials, community boards, and environmental and civic organizations to discuss possible changes to the Hudson River Park Act. We have just scheduled a public meeting to update the general public about these discussions. The meeting will include time for questions and answers, and the public will be able to provide their ideas about how the Park can best meet its financial challenges. [...] The meeting will take place on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway.”

••• Remember: Taste of Tribeca is Saturday! Here’s the list of participating restaurants—love seeing new places like Lotus Blue, Tribeca Tap House, Tre Sorelle, and Super Linda on there. Also: There will be “an exciting raffle sponsored by Sean Turner of Stribling & Associates. 10 lucky winners will receive a $200 gift certificate to the Taste of Tribeca participating restaurant of their choice. Visit the Stribling booth at Taste on Saturday and show your ticket to enter.”

••• Speaking Super Linda: Its take-out taqueria (at the north end) sure looks close to opening….

••• Just a reminder that the twice-weekly email newsletter is the easiest way to keep up with everything on TribecaCitizen.com. You can sign up by entering your email in the box in the upper-right corner (and then you’ll be sent an email where you have to click a link). I promise that the list will never be handed to anyone, and unsubscribing is a breeze.

••• The Dusty Rebel tweeted this great street-art image and I thought it was worth passing along….

••• The burger joint coming to Canal has opened: It’s called Black Burger. Look, there’s already a Yelp review! “I’ll preface this by saying that I understand that they just opened this week”—the “Coming Soon” sign is a bit confusing—”and they’re probably working some things out, but my lunch at Black Burger yesterday afternoon was one of the most disappointing, frustrating dining experiences I’ve had in a while. [...] When I finally got my food it was completely inedible: the burger patty was burned and tough, the tomato was either rotten or had frozen and thawed out, the onion was past it’s prime and the bun had was soggy and completely fell apart when I picked it up.”

••• The next Tribeca Meet & Greet—organized by BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center—will be Thursday, May 24 (6:30–9 p.m.) at ARC Athletics: “Anyone with an interest in Lower Manhattan is welcome to attend. Frankly Wines will provide libations and MaxDelivery will be donating wonderful nibblybits.

••• “Boardwalk Empire” is filming on Warren (near Broadway) this Friday. I think it was Friday. I forgot to take a photo. I’ll check in a bit…

••• If the Rangers win the Stanley Cup, they get a parade, right? I can only imagine what that looks like.

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THROUGH JUNE 2
“Is Schuster returns to her digital roots in her current exhibit, Manifestations, on display at One Art Space in Tribeca from May 11th through June 2nd. Each colorful canvas features vibrant, complex and glowing elaborations of ancient symbols, calling forth living energies and invoking powerful manifestations of humanity’s deepest hopes and dreams. A member of MIT’s pioneering Architecture Machine Group in the 1970’s, Is Schuster was the first artist to exhibit digital art in New York City.”

THROUGH JUNE 13
Eckart Hahn’s “Ancient Light” at Pablo’s Birthday.

MAY 16–JUNE 3
FB Gallery is proud to present Prince Michael’s Neverland: The Measure of an Artist. Michael Anthony Pegues, a fixture of the downtown art scene and true NY icon has finally found a home at FB gallery to present his vision. His constant quest for recognition, almost an obsession, has led him to constantly produce artworks where his image takes center stage.

MAY 17–JUNE 23
“Kansas is pleased to present Incidental Western, a solo exhibition of new work by Michael Berryhill. Michael Berryhill’s studio practice is an intensive exploration of temporal production and the impossibility of painting. His recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper are informed by accident and recovery; an attempt to invent his way into meaningful mystery.”

MAY 18–19
“Apexart invites visitors to exchange pictures from their lives with selections from the photo archive of Brooklyn artist Kambui Olujimi. Come with an image of any size, medium, style, and subject and leave with a photo of your choice. For those unable to bring pictures to the event, there will be limited facilities for on-site printing. A Life in Pictures blurs the lines of biographical authorship in a world moving towards dematerializing means of communication, allowing guests to interject moments from their own lives into this larger life in pictures. Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Parents, give your kids their first exhibition opportunity! Bring your kids and family photos to contribute to the photo archive.”

JUNE 2
Chely Wright at City Winery.

JUNE 15–17
Mark Nizer’s Expect the Impossible at Canal Park Playhouse: “Outrageous comedy antics and wild juggling adventures are in store for Canal Park Playhouse! Using lasers, robots, and extreme 3D juggling, Mark Nizer transforms impossible feats into an awe-inspiring theatrical event. Mark Nizer astounds audiences with his show-stopping tricks mixed with cutting edge technology. 3D glasses will be available.”

JULY 11–13
“Woodyfest” concerts of Woody Guthrie songs at City Winery, with performers such as Billy Bragg, Tim Robbins, and Rachael Yamagata.

AUGUST 9
The BoDeans at City Winery.

••• The city released a map of proposed bike-share locations. I would’ve expected at least one on Greenwich between N. Moore and Murray. The Tribeca section is pictured; click to enlarge. (Click “map” above to see the whole map.) —New York Times

••• “Two elite Downtown schools received envelopes containing white powder Thursday afternoon [....] The mysterious substance was sent to P.S. 234 in TriBeCa and NEST+m on the Lower East Side, police and school officials said. Police later determined that the substance at both schools was non-toxic and investigators are trying to discover where the white powder came from.” —DNAinfo

••• Curbed on 50 Varick (between Laight and Beach), which is “in the process of going from a Tribeca Verizon building afterthought to a model-magnet photo studio with a roof top made to throw parties. The architects are Adjmi & Andreoli, who are turning the Verizon building at 50 Varick into a U.S. outpost for London-based Spring Studios. The renovated building will feature 11 studios photo, 9 green rooms, a signature restaurant, bar, an art gallery, a small movie theater, library, offices, 20,000 square foot roof green roof deck, lighting and equipment rental, and event spaces.”

••• Sarabeth Levine of Sarabeth’s Tribeca did Grub Street‘s “food diary.”

••• “Governors Island announced their summer series of events for 2012.” Repeat after me: Its, its, its. —DNAinfo