Events on Monday, July 7

<em>Journey to the End of Night</em>

Special Event

Journey to the End of Night

Monday 7/ 7 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's nihilistic philosophy and vulgar language distinguishes him as one of France's more assertive misanthropes, but he's also one of... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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... 

Afro-Punk Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Afro-Punk Festival

Monday 7/ 7 @ Various locations

While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with... 

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

Art

What My Dad Gave Me

Monday 7/ 7 @ Rockefeller Center

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

<em>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>Die Soldaten </em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Die Soldaten

Monday 7/ 7 @ Park Avenue Armory

German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's original vision for Die Soldaten was to present the opera on 12 stages surrounding the audience.... 

<em>Brick Lane</em>

Film

Brick Lane

Monday 7/ 7 @ Various locations

With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen... 

Max Snow: <em>It's Fun to Do Bad Things</em>

Art: Photography

It's Fun to Do Bad Things

Monday 7/ 7 @ Moeller Snow Gallery

Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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>Stitching</em>

Theatre

Stitching

Monday 7/ 7 @ Wild Project

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

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

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Monday 7/ 7 @ Film Forum

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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,... 

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Festival: Performing Arts

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Monday 7/ 7 @ IFC Center

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

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>Finding Amanda</em>

Film

Finding Amanda

Monday 7/ 7 @ Landmark Sunshine

In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines... 

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>Trumbo</em>

Film: Documentary

Trumbo

Monday 7/ 7 @ Landmark Sunshine

The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about... 

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

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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?... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

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

Film

My Winnipeg

Monday 7/ 7 @ IFC Center

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

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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... 

JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Festival: Performing Arts

JAPAN CUTS

Monday 7/ 7 @ Japan Society

The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 7/ 7 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Monday 7/ 7 @ 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>A Perfect Couple</em>

Theatre

A Perfect Couple

Monday 7/ 7 @ DR2 Theatre

Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 7/ 7 @ Various locations

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

<em>Salvador Dal&iacute;: Home Movie </em>(1954) and<em> The General (</em>1927)

Film

Salvador Dalí: Home Movie and The General

Monday 7/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In his early art criticism, Salvador Dalí extolled the great silent comedians — Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and the lesser-known Harry Langdon... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 7/ 7 @ Various locations

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