Events on Monday, January 7

 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dave Eggers w/ Abraham Awolich

Books: Reading

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dave Eggers

Monday 1/ 7 @ 92nd St Y

Unlike the characters in most contemporary African literature familiar to the West, the affluent family in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut novel,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Monday 1/ 7 @ American Airlines Theater

Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... 

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed

Art

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions

Monday 1/ 7 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Monday 1/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Monday 1/ 7 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

Still Moving: Special New Year's Edition, 2008

Film

Still Moving: Special New Year's Edition, 2008

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Because any film worth its salt has already been released in order to achieve 2008 Oscar consideration, the first week of... 

Nordic Oscar Contenders Festival

Film

Nordic Oscar Contenders

Monday 1/ 7 @ Scandinavia House

The American-Scandinavian Association presents a series of exclusive sneak peeks at the best films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden,... 

<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 1/ 7 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí

Art

Salvador Dalí

Monday 1/ 7 @ William Bennett Gallery

If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that... 

<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the... 

Otto Preminger

Film

Otto Preminger

Monday 1/ 7 @ Film Forum

Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Monday 1/ 7 @ Guggenheim Museum

Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...