Events on Monday, August 11
Monday 8/11 @ McNally Jackson Booksellers
Ammon Shea, writer and — let's face it — all-around nerd, decided to expand his vocabulary and erase his social life...
Monday 8/11 @ Wingate Field
Grammy-winning songstress Jill Scott is the latest iconic musician to take the stage at Wingate Field in Brooklyn as part of...
Ongoing Events
Monday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
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Monday 8/11 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Monday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Monday 8/11 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Monday 8/11 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Monday 8/11 @ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
Monday 8/11 @ Neue Galerie
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a...
Monday 8/11 @ Jacobson Howard Gallery
Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design,...
Monday 8/11 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Monday 8/11 @ The Joyce Theater
The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County,...
NY International Fringe Festival
Monday 8/11 @ Various locations
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
Monday 8/11 @ 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....
Monday 8/11 @ 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...
