All events on Monday August 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Faint
Monday Aug 18 (8pm) @ Terminal 5
The synth-loving new-wave enthusiasts in the Faint have finally left Omaha's scenester Saddle Creek Records in favor of their own blank.wav label — but the... View details »
The Faint
Performing Arts: Comedy
An Evening with The Daily Show
Monday Aug 18 (8pm) @ Comix
The name Rory Albanese may not ring a bell, but his success as co-producer for The Daily Show should. An Emmy award-winning writer, Albanese also... View details »
An Evening with The Daily Show
Film: Documentary
Sync or Swim
Monday Aug 18 (8pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
After Murderball (2005), synchronized swimming just doesn't seem as edgy anymore. Still, incredibly skilled athletes continue to don their noseplugs and swim caps with pride,... View details »
Sync or Swim

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Art
Louise Bourgeois
Monday Aug 18 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
Louise Bourgeois
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Monday Aug 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Monday Aug 18 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Film
The Wackness
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
Monday Aug 18 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
BASH'd
Film
Tell No One
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
Tell No One
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
Brideshead Revisited
Performing Arts
Hot!
Monday Aug 18 @ Dixon Place More times »
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
Hot!
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Monday Aug 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
Dalí: Painting and Film
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Monday Aug 18 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
Arctic Hysteria
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Monday Aug 18 @ IFC Center More times »
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
The Order of Myths
Film
Baghead
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
Baghead
Film
Sixty Six
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old, bespectacled Bernie, who's been... View details »
Sixty Six
Film
Bottle Shock
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
Bottle Shock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Monday Aug 18 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
Free
Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
Twelve Ophelias
Art
Max Beckmann
Monday Aug 18 (11am–6pm) @ Neue Galerie More times »
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism.... View details »
Max Beckmann
Art
Artist as Publisher
Monday Aug 18 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
Free
In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
Artist as Publisher
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Monday Aug 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Monday Aug 18 @ 37 Arts More times »
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
Fela!
Performing Arts: Theatre
NY International Fringe Festival
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years, and Bash'd are among... View details »
NY International Fringe Festival
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Film
Elegy
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
Elegy
Film
Lindsay Anderson
Monday Aug 18 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
The bedrock figure of Britain's influential Free Cinema movement, director Lindsay Anderson clinched his fame with the anarchic end to If. . .: an armed... View details »
Lindsay Anderson
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Monday Aug 18 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
[title of show]
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Day in Dig Nation
Monday Aug 18 (8:30pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
Flying Carpet Theatre's A Day in Dig Nation is the type of genre-defying show that is supposed to be thriving in New York City, but... View details »
A Day in Dig Nation
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Monday Aug 18 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
Free
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
Eminent Domain
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Monday Aug 18 @ Various locations More times »
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
American Teen