Events on Monday, July 14

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Music: Global

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Monday 7/14 @ (le) poisson rouge

Roma lovers and accordion aficionados take note — your cup overfloweth tonight as Nomadic Albuquerquean Jeremy Barnes brings maddened accordion, wily... 

Davila 666 w/ Ex-Humans and Vilent Lovers Club

Music

Davila 666

Monday 7/14 @ Don Pedro's

Although it's summer, this gig at Greenpoint venue Don Pedro's might make you think of Halloween: disguised as a mellow Monday-night... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 7/14 @ 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,... 

Chris Burden: <em>What My Dad Gave Me</em>

Art

What My Dad Gave Me

Monday 7/14 @ Rockefeller Center

In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 7/14 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>When Did You Last See Your Father?</em>

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Monday 7/14 @ Angelika Film Center

Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 7/14 @ Center for Book Arts

In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 7/14 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

<em>Stitching</em>

Theatre

Stitching

Monday 7/14 @ Wild Project

On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the... 

<em>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</em>

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Monday 7/14 @ Quad Cinema

Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 7/14 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Monday 7/14 @ IFC Center

New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 7/14 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

Ricky Gervais

Comedy

Ricky Gervais

Monday 7/14 @ WaMu Theater at MSG

It's true that comedy doesn't always survive its trips overseas (Coupling, anyone?), but before Steve Carell stepped into the awkward 'n... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 7/14 @ Various locations in the East River

Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Monday 7/14 @ McCarren Park Pool

Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to... 

<em>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Monday 7/14 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize... 

<em>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Monday 7/14 @ Angelika Film Center

Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode... 

<em>Encounters at the End of the World</em>

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Monday 7/14 @ Film Forum

In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... 

<em>The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac</em> and <em>The Young Ladies of...</em>

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Monday 7/14 @ HERE Arts Center

As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes... 

<em>The Exiles (</em>1961)<em> </em>

Film

The Exiles

Monday 7/14 @ IFC Center

Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Monday 7/14 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

<em>Beauty in Trouble</em>

Film

Beauty in Trouble

Monday 7/14 @ Angelika Film Center

Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,... 

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 7/14 @ Zipper Factory Theater

The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 7/14 @ Dixon Place

Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 7/14 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage... 

<em>Eight Miles High</em>

Film

Eight Miles High

Monday 7/14 @ Cinema Village

German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — sleeping her way through a variety of... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 7/14 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Monday 7/14 @ IFC Center

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

<em>My Winnipeg</em>

Film

My Winnipeg

Monday 7/14 @ IFC Center

In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Monday 7/14 @ The Joyce Theater

It wouldn't be a sultry summer in the city without Pilobolus emoting some high heat from the Joyce stage. The much-anticipated... 

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Festival: Performing Arts

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Monday 7/14 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths...