Events on Monday, March 17

Black 47

Music

Black 47

Monday 3/17 @ 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... 

The St. Patrick's Day Drunken Throwdown

Comedy

The St. Patrick's Day Drunken Throwdown

Monday 3/17 @ 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... 

<em>Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless</em>

Books: Reading

Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless

Monday 3/17 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers

Whether you're a night owl or just bored by counting sheep, Soft Skull Press' Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless is... 

Zizek Urban Beats Club w/ Nacotheque DJs

Music: DJ

Zizek w/ Nacotheque DJs

Monday 3/17 @ S.O.B.'s

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... 

Ongoing Events

Asian Contemporary Art Week

Art

Asian Contemporary Art Week

Monday 3/17 @ Various locations

Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work... 

<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Monday 3/17 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120... 

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Monday 3/17 @ 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... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Monday 3/17 @ 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),... 

Tim Minchin

Comedy

Tim Minchin

Monday 3/17 @ New World Stages

Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Monday 3/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Monday 3/17 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... 

<em>J'entends plus la guitare </em>(1991)

Film

J'entends plus la guitare

Monday 3/17 @ Cinema Village

J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet... 

Yoon Lee

Art

Yoon Lee

Monday 3/17 @ Pierogi

In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape... 

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Monday 3/17 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

<em>The Unforeseen</em>

Film: Documentary

The Unforeseen

Monday 3/17 @ Angelika Film Center

For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this... 

<em>Questa</em>

Theatre

Questa

Monday 3/17 @ Wings Theatre

Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 3/17 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 3/17 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Monday 3/17 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

The Pogues

Music

The Pogues

Monday 3/17 @ Roseland Ballroom

The Pogues' enduring take on traditional Irish folk — filtered through Joe Strummer's bark and Keith Richards' health regimen — proved... 

<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Monday 3/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Monday 3/17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the...