All events on Monday May 12
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- William Shatner
- Monday May 12 (7:30pm) @ 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 right word, but the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Duffy
- Monday May 12 (8pm) @ Apollo Theater
- Sure, you could brand her Winehouse redux, but it's better to think of Duffy as just another student of Stax soul (Amy didn't invent it,... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
- Monday May 12 (7:30pm) @ 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 will expand your known... View details »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Monday May 12 (6–8pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- OpeningFree
- Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Barbara Hammer
- Monday May 12 (7:30pm) @ Collective:Unconscious
- Groundbreaking experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer screens eight of her early, lesbian-feminist short films, as part of the ongoing events leading up to MIX NYC's gay-and-lesbian... View details »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday May 12 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday May 12 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Monday May 12 (noon–6pm) @ PS1 Contemporary Art Center in LIC 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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Monday May 12 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Monday May 12 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Monday May 12 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Movement Research
- Monday May 12 (8pm) @ Judson Memorial Church More times »
- Free
- Movement Research's eclectic Monday-night performances at Judson Church provide equal stimulation for trained and untrained eyes. Those familiar with contemporary modern dance's quirky intellectualism can... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Monday May 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch. But due to the... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Monday May 12 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Monday May 12 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
- Free
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Monday May 12 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Monday May 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Monday May 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Monday May 12 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Monday May 12 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican in Williamsburg More times »
- Free
- David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Fille du Régiment
- Monday May 12 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House More times »
- Sold Out!
- The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full of love and war,... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Monday May 12 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
- Free
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Monday May 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Monday May 12 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Monday May 12 (noon–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times »
- Free
- Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess which one of these... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Monday May 12 (8pm) @ The Living Theatre More times »
- Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers Woods for "accidentally" erasing... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Monday May 12 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Monday May 12 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- Film
- The Fall
- Monday May 12 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
- Film
- Noise
- Monday May 12 @ Various locations More times »
- With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Monday May 12 @ Village East Cinema More times »
- Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
