Events on Monday, May 26
Kate Colby and Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Monday 5/26 @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery
It's rare that anyone describes a poem as a "page turner," but Kate Colby's latest book, Unbecoming Behavior, draws readers in...
Monday 5/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A noise-rock veteran and former tourmate of fellow gee-whiz electro artists Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, Joe Williams was still only...
Ongoing Events
Monday 5/26 @ Pierogi
Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting...
Monday 5/26 @ Clearview Cinema
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just...
Monday 5/26 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Monday 5/26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little...
Monday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Monday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Monday 5/26 @ Film Forum
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into...
Monday 5/26 @ Film Forum
At its core, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine Feminine is a simple boy-meets-girl tragedy, with Jean-Pierre Léaud as the pensive boy and yé-yé...
Monday 5/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and...
New York African Film Festival
Monday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Various locations
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson...
Monday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Monday 5/26 @ BAM
BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as...
Monday 5/26 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Monday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Fulton Ferry Landing
British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean....
Monday 5/26 @ 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...
