Events on Monday, August 25

Patti LaBelle

Music

Patti LaBelle

Monday 8/25 @ Wingate Field

Legendary R&B songstress Patti LaBelle has inspired everyone from Mary J. Blige to Joss Stone, and tonight, the original diva brings... 

Mortified

Comedy

Mortified

Monday 8/25 @ Comix

Luckily, some people resist the urge to burn every artifact from their Kurt Cobain shrine when they gain the self-awareness that... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet </em>(2005)<em>
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Film: Documentary

Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet

Monday 8/25 @ Film Forum

American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 8/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 8/25 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

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

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Monday 8/25 @ 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... 

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Monday 8/25 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... 

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 8/25 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Monday 8/25 @ 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 Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 8/25 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... 

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 8/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

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

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 8/25 @ 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.... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old,... 

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Theatre

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Monday 8/25 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 8/25 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

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

Art

Max Beckmann

Monday 8/25 @ Neue Galerie

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 8/25 @ Paragraph

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

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 8/25 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Monday 8/25 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right...