All events on Monday March 17

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Reading
Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless
Monday Mar 17 (7pm) @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
Free
Whether you're a night owl or just bored by counting sheep, Soft Skull Press' Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless is the perfect nocturnal companion.... View details »
Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless
Music: Rock/Pop
Black 47
Monday Mar 17 (7pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
With the Pogues' Shane MacGowan about as reliable as a narcoleptic night watchman these days, it's good to know there is another option for St.... View details »
Black 47
Performing Arts: Comedy
The St. Patrick's Day Drunken Throwdown
Monday Mar 17 (11pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
It very well could be that alcohol makes tonight's drunken improv comics exponentially funnier — but they're still banking on the fact that you've had... View details »
The St. Patrick's Day Drunken Throwdown
Music: DJ
Zizek w/ Nacotheque DJs
Monday Mar 17 (10pm) @ S.O.B.'s
Giveaway
It was only a matter of time before party-cum-label Zizek ventured out of Buenos Aires and waded into New York's mashup-hungry club scene. Mixing traditional... View details »
Zizek w/ Nacotheque DJs

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Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Monday Mar 17 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Monday Mar 17 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
Jan de Cock
Monday Mar 17 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Monday Mar 17 @ International Center of Photography More times »
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
Archive Fever
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Monday Mar 17 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Jasper Johns
Monday Mar 17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
Jasper Johns
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
Monday Mar 17 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
The Unforeseen
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Monday Mar 17 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Monday Mar 17 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
Design and the Elastic Mind
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Monday Mar 17 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
The 39 Steps 
Performing Arts: Theatre
Questa
Monday Mar 17 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
Questa
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Monday Mar 17 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Film
J'entends plus la guitare
Monday Mar 17 @ Cinema Village More times »
J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet Underground, the German-born icon... View details »
J'entends plus la guitare
Art
Yoon Lee
Monday Mar 17 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
Free
In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape beneath it. Each canvas... View details »
Yoon Lee
Art
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Monday Mar 17 @ Various locations More times »
Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work in the shadow of... View details »
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Music: Rock/Pop
The Pogues
Monday Mar 17 (7:30pm) @ Roseland Ballroom More times »
The Pogues' enduring take on traditional Irish folk — filtered through Joe Strummer's bark and Keith Richards' health regimen — proved that the spirit of... View details »
The Pogues
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
Monday Mar 17 (8pm) @ New World Stages More times »
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his self-deprecating, raunchy humor. Armed... View details »
Tim Minchin
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Monday Mar 17 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph