Events on Monday, August 25

Patti LaBelle
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Music: Soul/R&B
Patti LaBelle
@ Wingate Field
Legendary R&B songstress Patti LaBelle has inspired everyone from Mary J. Blige to Joss Stone, and tonight, the original diva brings...  View details »
Free
Mortified
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Performing Arts: Comedy
Mortified
@ Comix
Luckily, some people resist the urge to burn every artifact from their Kurt Cobain shrine when they gain the self-awareness that...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>BASH'd </em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
@ Zipper Factory Theater
The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Wackness </em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
The Wackness
@ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet </em>(2005)<em>
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Month_08 Monday Day_25
Film: Documentary
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
@ Film Forum
American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra...  View details »
Ongoing
Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Performing Arts
Hot!
@ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Baghead</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Baghead
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Max Beckmann: <em>Self-Portrait with Horn</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Max Beckmann
@ Neue Galerie
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fela!</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
@ 37 Arts
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Artist as Publisher</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Artist as Publisher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Monday Night Bingo
Month_08 Monday Day_25
More Flavor: Competition
Monday Night Bingo
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Brideshead Revisited
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Bottle Shock
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Trouble the Water</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
@ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>American Teen</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film: Documentary
American Teen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Tell No One</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Tell No One
@ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Arctic Hysteria
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sixty Six</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Sixty Six
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>
Month_08 Monday Day_25
Art
Louise Bourgeois
@ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Hamlet 2</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Hamlet 2
@ Various locations
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Elegy</em>
Month_08 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Elegy
@ Various locations
Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip...  View details »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_08 Monday Day_25
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Ongoing
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