Events on Monday, April 28

Hate Eternal w/ Soilent Green, Skeletonwitch, and Toxic Holocaust

Music

Hate Eternal

Monday 4/28 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill

Metal fans tend to speak about everything in hyperbole (Epic! Brutal! Technicaaaaaal!), but when it comes to Tampa Bay's Hate Eternal,... 

The Poet's Theatre II: <em>Gilgamesh</em>

Books: Poetry

Gilgamesh

Monday 4/28 @ 92nd St Y

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and Inverse Theater founder Chad Gracia give The Epic of Gilgamesh a thoroughly modern update. Written... 

NYMoth Story Slam: Envy

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

NYMoth Story Slam

Monday 4/28 @ The Bitter End

Everyone is seized by the green goblin now and then — whether because of the usual competitive vices (money, love, jobs)... 

120 Days

Music

120 Days

Monday 4/28 @ The Mercury Lounge

Norwegian dance fiends 120 Days inhabit a distant world awash in electro anarchy — a dark realm where U2 do eternal... 

The Broadway Beauty Pageant

Performing Arts

The Broadway Beauty Pageant

Monday 4/28 @ New World Stages

Before Daniel Radcliffe strips down on the Great White Way, a chorus line of beefcakes gives new meaning to "Broadway babes."... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Up the Yangtze </em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Monday 4/28 @ IFC Center

Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... 

<em>Stuff and Dough</em>

Film

Stuff and Dough

Monday 4/28 @ Film Forum

Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —... 

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

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Monday 4/28 @ 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... 

Tribeca Film Festival

Film

Tribeca Film Festival

Monday 4/28 @ Various locations

The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Monday 4/28 @ Landmark Sunshine

Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

Movement Research at Judson Church

Dance

Movement Research

Monday 4/28 @ Judson Memorial Church

Movement Research's eclectic Monday-night performances at Judson Church provide equal stimulation for trained and untrained eyes. Those familiar with contemporary modern... 

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

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Monday 4/28 @ 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... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Monday 4/28 @ Animazing Gallery

With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... 

<em>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

Monday 4/28 @ Various locations

Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... 

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Workshop/Class

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Monday 4/28 @ The Apple Store, Soho

For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking... 

The Verve

Music

The Verve

Monday 4/28 @ WaMu Theater at MSG

The Verve are best remembered for their mega-hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony," but the Northern English band was more than a one-hit... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Monday 4/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Monday 4/28 @ 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>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Monday 4/28 @ Quad Cinema

Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... 

David Ford: <em>White Like Me</em>

Art

White Like Me

Monday 4/28 @ Jack the Pelican

David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Monday 4/28 @ 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>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Monday 4/28 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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

<em>Roman de Gare</em>

Film

Roman de Gare

Monday 4/28 @ Angelika Film Center

Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's... 

<em>Satyagraha</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Satyagraha

Monday 4/28 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Satyagraha comes to the Met following an acclaimed run in London. This new production of Philip Glass' 1979 opera about Gandhi's... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Paragraph

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

15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>

Film

New York African Film Festival

Monday 4/28 @ Various locations

Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....