All events on Monday May 19
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- Theo Parrish
- Monday May 19 (10pm) @ Cielo
- François K's weekly party at Cielo always goes deep, but when Mala, the heaviest of the London steppas, and soulful Midwestern house pioneer Theo Parrish... View details »
- Art
- I Wish to Say
- Monday May 19 (12:30–2:30pm) @ Bryant Park More times »
- Free
- Shadowing the campaign tours of Obama, Clinton, and McCain, performance artist Sheryl Oring has traveled all over the country to gather information for the upcoming... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- What Is Green Architecture?
- Monday May 19 (7pm) @ Goethe-Institut New York
- Free
- "Green" means different things to different people. Architects, in particular, are motivated by an array of priorities — some aim merely to reduce carbon footprints... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion
- Monday May 19 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- Composed primarily of members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor (which, sadly, remains on indefinite hiatus), Thee Silver Mt. Zion have developed a cult-like following with... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday May 19 (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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Monday May 19 (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
- Olafur Eliasson
- Monday May 19 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- NY Design Week
- Monday May 19 @ Various locations More times »
- As the design community flocks to New York for the 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center (May 17-19), over 50 design... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Monday May 19 @ 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
- The Fall
- Monday May 19 @ 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
- New York African Film Festival
- Monday May 19 @ 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
- Redbelt
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Monday May 19 (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
- James Nares Retrospective
- Monday May 19 (7:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
- As befits a linchpin of film's no wave movement, an anti-commercial culture founded partly in response to downtown NYC's new wave, director James Nares is... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- Film
- Noise
- Monday May 19 @ 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
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Monday May 19 @ IFC Center More times »
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Monday May 19 @ 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
- White Like Me
- Monday May 19 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican 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: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Monday May 19 (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
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday May 19 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Monday May 19 (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 »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Monday May 19 (10am–5pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
- The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Monday May 19 (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 »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Monday May 19 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Monday May 19 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
