All events on Monday September 22
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- The Met: Live in HD
- Monday Sep 22 (6pm) @ BAM More times »
- Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live in HD screening of... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- White Williams
- Monday Sep 22 (8pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- A noise-rock veteran and former tourmate of fellow gee-whiz electro artists Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, Joe Williams was still only 23 when he dropped... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Met's Opening Night Gala
- Monday Sep 22 (6:30pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House
- The Metropolitan Opera kicks off the season in style with a celebration of its 125th anniversary. The Gala stars Renée Fleming in fully staged scenes... View details »
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- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Monday Sep 22 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Monday Sep 22 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Film
- Battle in Seattle
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Monday Sep 22 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
- Free
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Film
- Towelhead
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Monday Sep 22 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Monday Sep 22 @ 37 Arts More times »
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Trouble the Water
- Monday Sep 22 @ IFC Center More times »
- Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
- Film
- Traitor
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- FIAF Fall Festival
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking groceries; jazz is "turned... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Monday Sep 22 (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
- Street Art, Street Life
- Monday Sep 22 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
- Art
- Other Options
- Monday Sep 22 @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Celebrity Autobiography
- Monday Sep 22 (7:30pm) @ The Triad Theater More times »
- Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages and nuanced performances eliciting... View details »
- Art: Festival
- Democracy in America
- Monday Sep 22 @ Park Avenue Armory More times »
- Free
- Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign. The ambitious array of... View details »
- Film
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Monday Sep 22 @ Film Forum More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Music: Festival
- The Festival of New Trumpet Music
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance. Starting today, the high... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Circus Amok
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various NYC parks More times »
- Free
- After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
- More Flavor: Competition
- Monday Night Bingo
- Monday Sep 22 (7:30–10pm) @ The Bowery Poetry Club More times »
- Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words, instead of dentures and... View details »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Monday Sep 22 @ MoMA More times »
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sa Ka La
- Monday Sep 22 (8pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street More times »
- Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work until three years ago,... View details »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Monday Sep 22 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Film
- A Secret
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Crossing the Line
- Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
- A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French dance festival, but after... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Yard Dogs Road Show
- Monday Sep 22 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- The wily Wild West-era vaudevillians of the Yard Dogs Road Show blow into town again tonight for two performances at Spiegelworld. In a hodgepodge of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- All of Us
- Monday Sep 22 @ Cinema Village More times »
- Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage their HIV/AIDS diagnosis, their... View details »
