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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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....
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
