Events on Monday, December 8

Artists on Artists feat. Mark Dion on Robert Smithson

Special Event

Mark Dion on Robert Smithson

Monday 12/ 8 @ Dia Art Foundation

Dia's long-running lecture series (founded back in '01 with funds from the city and Art for Art's sake), Artists on Artists,... 

The Foggy Monocle Holiday Party

Party

The Foggy Monocle Holiday Party

Monday 12/ 8 @ The Professor's Loft

The consumate gentlemen behind online IM laugh-tank the Foggy Monocle are at it again, hosting a holiday soiree to end all... 

New York Cares Benefit feat. David Cross, Fred Armisen, Amazing Baby, Leona Naess, and Eugene Mirman

Special Event: Benefit

New York Cares Benefit feat. David Cross

Monday 12/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Tis the season for giving, but with the current financial situation, that might seem harder than usual. Fortunately, with returns like... 

Don Caballero w/ Tombs, La Otracina, and Villa Vina

Music: Experimental

Don Caballero

Monday 12/ 8 @ Club Europa

When Don Caballero burst onto the scene in the early '90s, their heady, precise, neo-classical metal (unfortunately tagged "math rock") seemed... 

Ladies Lotto Benefit for charity: water

Special Event: Benefit

Ladies Lotto Benefit

Monday 12/ 8 @ The Event Space

It's a fairly straightforward proposition: without clean water, there can be no life. Although the focusing of international efforts has made... 

Ongoing Events

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Theatre

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Monday 12/ 8 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 12/ 8 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Monday 12/ 8 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Monday 12/ 8 @ Cinema Village

Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Monday 12/ 8 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 12/ 8 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Monday 12/ 8 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 12/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Monday 12/ 8 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 12/ 8 @ Paragraph

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

Federico Fellini's <em>Amarcord</em> (1973)

Film

Amarcord

Monday 12/ 8 @ Film Forum

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... 

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Monday 12/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Monday 12/ 8 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Monday 12/ 8 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 12/ 8 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 12/ 8 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Monday 12/ 8 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Monday 12/ 8 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Monday 12/ 8 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

Mingus Mondays

Music

Mingus Mondays

Monday 12/ 8 @ Jazz Standard

The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus,... 

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Monday 12/ 8 @ Union Square

Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 12/ 8 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Monday 12/ 8 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Monday 12/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...