Events on Monday, July 28

<em>The Apartment </em>(1960)

Film

The Apartment

Monday 7/28 @ Bryant Park

In The Apartment, Billy Wilder's satirical take on mid-century corporate life, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine's chemistry is the undisputed draw.... 

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Music

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Monday 7/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Unlike their namesake, elusive playwright Margot Tenenbaum in quirky Wes Anderson delight The Royal Tenenbaums, bittersweet indie collective Margot & the... 

Ongoing Events

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

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Monday 7/28 @ 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>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 7/28 @ Various locations

The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school... 

Max Beckmann: <em>Self-Portrait with Horn</em>

Art

Max Beckmann

Monday 7/28 @ Neue Galerie

With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a... 

<em>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Monday 7/28 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 7/28 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 7/28 @ 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>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Monday 7/28 @ IFC Center

Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially... 

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 7/28 @ 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... 

Good Wood 2008

Art

Good Wood 2008

Monday 7/28 @ 3rd Ward

Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 7/28 @ 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 7/28 @ 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 7/28 @ 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>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 7/28 @ 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 7/28 @ 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>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Monday 7/28 @ 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... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 7/28 @ Dixon Place

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

Keigwin + Company: <em>elements</em>

Dance

Keigwin + Company

Monday 7/28 @ The Joyce Theater

Never mind the well-trod theme of Larry Keigwin's latest dance opus, elements — the choreographer's work is anything but conventional. The... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 7/28 @ 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>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 7/28 @ 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 7/28 @ Various locations

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

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 7/28 @ 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>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Monday 7/28 @ Various locations

Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie... 

Gerald Dearing: <em>Indivisible</em>

Art: Photography

Gerald Dearing

Monday 7/28 @ Gallery Nine5

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

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

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 7/28 @ 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>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 7/28 @ Various locations

For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....