All events on Monday May 26

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Reading: Poetry
Kate Colby and Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Monday May 26 (8pm) @ St. Mark's Church
It's rare that anyone describes a poem as a "page turner," but Kate Colby's latest book, Unbecoming Behavior, draws readers in with its kinetic rhythms,... View details »
Kate Colby and Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Music: Electronic
White Williams
Monday May 26 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
Giveaway
A noise-rock veteran and former tourmate of fellow gee-whiz electro artists Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, Joe Williams was still only 23 when he dropped... View details »
White Williams

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Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Monday May 26 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Monday May 26 (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 »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Monday May 26 (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 »
Olafur Eliasson
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Dance
DanceAfrica 2008
Monday May 26 @ BAM More times »
BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as an outdoor bazaar brimming... View details »
DanceAfrica 2008
Film
The Fall
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
The Fall
Film
New York African Film Festival
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
New York African Film Festival
Film
Redbelt
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Redbelt
Art
Ralph Bakshi
Monday May 26 (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 »
Ralph Bakshi
Film
Noise
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Noise
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Film
Poultrygeist
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Poultrygeist
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Monday May 26 @ Various locations More times »
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) saved Chinese... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
Art
Darina Karpov
Monday May 26 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
Free
Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
Darina Karpov
Film
Son of Rambow
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Son of Rambow
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Monday May 26 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Performing Arts: Theatre
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Monday May 26 (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 »
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
E.S.T. Marathon
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Monday May 26 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Monday May 26 (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 »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Art
GlassLab
Monday May 26 (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 »
GlassLab
Film
The Edge of Heaven
Monday May 26 (1, 3:30, 7:15 & 9:40pm) @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into your system. His latest,... View details »
The Edge of Heaven
Film
Masculine Feminine 
Monday May 26 @ Film Forum More times »
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 star Chantal Goya as... View details »
Masculine Feminine 
Art
Telectroscope
Monday May 26 @ Fulton Ferry Landing More times »
Free
British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean. He also claims that... View details »
Telectroscope
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
Monday May 26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little theatre takes over the... View details »
Toy Theater Festival
Film: Documentary
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Monday May 26 @ Clearview Cinema More times »
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just plain reckless. Long hair... View details »
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Art
Purvis Young
Monday May 26 (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 »
Purvis Young
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Monday May 26 (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 »
Eminent Domain