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>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>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... 

<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>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... 

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... 

<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>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>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... 

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... 

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>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...