Events on Monday, July 21

<em>Arsenic and Old Lace </em>(1944)

Film

Arsenic and the Old Lace

Monday 7/21 @ Bryant Park

Arsenic and Old Lace embraces rule No. 1 for a screwball classic: the hero must have a mayhem-making secret. For Cary... 

The Death Set w/ the Mae Shi and Ponytail

Music

The Death Set

Monday 7/21 @ Market Hotel

In the grand tradition of misleading band names (the Pop Group, the Clean), the Death Set's handle suggests Satanic verses and... 

Datarock w/ Boy Crisis

Music: Electronic

Datarock

Monday 7/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Norwegian duo Datarock cite Devo as one of their main influences, as if it weren't obvious. (They wear matching sci-fi jumpsuits,... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 7/21 @ 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>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Monday 7/21 @ 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>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 7/21 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 7/21 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 7/21 @ Various locations

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

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Theatre

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Monday 7/21 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

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

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Monday 7/21 @ Quad Cinema

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

Gerald Dearing: <em>Indivisible</em>

Art: Photography

Gerald Dearing

Monday 7/21 @ Gallery Nine5

The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 7/21 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 7/21 @ Various locations

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

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 7/21 @ 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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 7/21 @ 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>The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac</em> and <em>The Young Ladies of...</em>

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Monday 7/21 @ HERE Arts Center

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

Film

Felon

Monday 7/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

Muscular and smart, Felon takes a long, hard look at many men's worst fear — incarceration — and actually comes up... 

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 7/21 @ 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... 

All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green

Film

The World of David Gordon Green

Monday 7/21 @ BAM

David Gordon Green's talent for creating moody, coming-of-age dramas has drawn universal acclaim since his feature-length debut George Washington (2000). To... 

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

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Monday 7/21 @ Film Forum

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

George Michael

Music

George Michael

Monday 7/21 @ Madison Square Garden

Although his career is divided sharply between the sugary boy-band confections of the '80s and the adult-contemporary fare of the '90s,... 

<em>A Man Named Pearl</em>

Film: Documentary

A Man Named Pearl

Monday 7/21 @ Angelika Film Center

In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black... 

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 7/21 @ 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>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 7/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... 

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Monday 7/21 @ IFC Center

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

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 7/21 @ Dixon Place

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

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Monday 7/21 @ 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... 

<em>Take</em>

Film

Take

Monday 7/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

Take begins with two close-ups: that of Ana (Minnie Driver), her face drawn and mouth grim; and Saul (Jeremy Renner), wearing... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 7/21 @ 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,... 

<em>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Monday 7/21 @ 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>My Winnipeg</em>

Film

My Winnipeg

Monday 7/21 @ IFC Center

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

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 7/21 @ Zipper Factory Theater

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

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

Film

The Exiles

Monday 7/21 @ IFC Center

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