Events on Monday, September 22
Monday 9/22 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera kicks off the season in style with a celebration of its 125th anniversary. The Gala stars Renée Fleming...
Monday 9/22 @ (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...
Ongoing Events
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance....
Monday 9/22 @ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...
Monday 9/22 @ Cinema Village
Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage...
Monday 9/22 @ 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....
Monday 9/22 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Monday 9/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...
Monday 9/22 @ 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...
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Monday 9/22 @ Angelika Film Center
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous...
Monday 9/22 @ The Triad Theater
Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages...
Monday 9/22 @ 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...
Monday 9/22 @ 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...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Monday 9/22 @ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...
Monday 9/22 @ 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...
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...
Monday 9/22 @ Spiegelworld
The wily Wild West-era vaudevillians of the Yard Dogs Road Show blow into town again tonight for two performances at Spiegelworld....
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
Monday 9/22 @ BAM
Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live...
Monday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through...
Monday 9/22 @ Various NYC parks
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional...
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Monday 9/22 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Monday 9/22 @ 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...
Monday 9/22 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...
Monday 9/22 @ Park Avenue Armory
Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign....
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...
Monday 9/22 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Monday 9/22 @ 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,...
Monday 9/22 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Monday 9/22 @ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...
