Events on Monday, May 12
Monday 5/12 @ Collective:Unconscious
Groundbreaking experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer screens eight of her early, lesbian-feminist short films, as part of the ongoing events leading up...
Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Monday 5/12 @ American Museum of Natural History
Even if your knowledge of the planetary sciences is limited to Star Trek dialogue and occasional star-gazing, MIT professor Sara Seager...
Monday 5/12 @ 92nd St Y
William Shatner has parodied himself to the point of once again becoming a respected pop icon. Well, maybe "respected" isn't the...
Ongoing Events
Monday 5/12 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually...
Monday 5/12 @ LIVE from the NYPL
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of...
Monday 5/12 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
New York African Film Festival
Monday 5/12 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Monday 5/12 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full...
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Monday 5/12 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Monday 5/12 @ Ars Nova Theater
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain...
Monday 5/12 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Monday 5/12 @ 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,...
Monday 5/12 @ The Living Theatre
Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers...
Monday 5/12 @ Village East Cinema
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Monday 5/12 @ Fisher Landau Center for Art
Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess...
Monday 5/12 @ 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...
Monday 5/12 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Monday 5/12 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
