Events on Monday, August 4

Flosstradamus

Music: DJ

Flosstradamus

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Dance

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Monday 8/ 4 @ The Joyce Theater

The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County,... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>Beautiful Burnout: The Art Jam of Underworld</em>

Art

Beautiful Burnout

Monday 8/ 4 @ Jacobson Howard Gallery

Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design,... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</em>

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Monday 8/ 4 @ Quad Cinema

Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... 

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Monday 8/ 4 @ McCarren Park Pool

Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to... 

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

Art

Max Beckmann

Monday 8/ 4 @ Neue Galerie

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

<em>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Monday 8/ 4 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Monday 8/ 4 @ Various locations

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

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari </em>(1920) and <em>L'Hippocampe </em>(1934)

Film: Double Feature

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and L'Hippocampe

Monday 8/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With its impressionistic dreamscapes and surreal sets, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a masterwork of art direction. Rising... 

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

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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... 

Good Wood 2008

Art

Good Wood 2008

Monday 8/ 4 @ 3rd Ward

Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Monday 8/ 4 @ Dixon Place

Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... 

Improvised Shakespeare

Comedy

Improvised Shakespeare

Monday 8/ 4 @ Hudson Guild Theater

If this summer's production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater left you craving more Elizabethan melodrama, the Improvised Shakespeare Company has... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 8/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...