All events on Monday August 04

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Film: Double Feature
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and L'Hippocampe
Monday Aug 4 (6pm) @ MoMA More times »
With its impressionistic dreamscapes and surreal sets, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a masterwork of art direction. Rising from the ashes of... View details »
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and L'Hippocampe
Music: DJ
Flosstradamus
Monday Aug 4 (11:30pm) @ Santos Party House
As most club kids know, Flosstradamus deserve the next-big-thing ink that's been spilled over their sweaty DJ sets during the last few years. For the... View details »
Flosstradamus
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Improvised Shakespeare
Monday Aug 4 (8pm) @ Hudson Guild Theater More times »
If this summer's production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater left you craving more Elizabethan melodrama, the Improvised Shakespeare Company has a bagful of iambic... View details »
Improvised Shakespeare
Performing Arts: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Monday Aug 4 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago... View details »
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

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Art
Louise Bourgeois
Monday Aug 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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: Documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Monday Aug 4 @ Quad Cinema More times »
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Film
Sixty Six
Monday Aug 4 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Monday Aug 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 (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
Good Wood 2008
Monday Aug 4 @ 3rd Ward More times »
Free
Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its own unscuffed moment. Good... View details »
Good Wood 2008
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Monday Aug 4 (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
Art
Crop Rotation
Monday Aug 4 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
Crop Rotation
Art
Beautiful Burnout
Monday Aug 4 (10am–6pm) @ Jacobson Howard Gallery More times »
Free
Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design, videos, and multimedia installations.... View details »
Beautiful Burnout
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Monday Aug 4 (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 »
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Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Monday Aug 4 (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 4 @ 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