Events on Monday, October 12

Met Holiday Monday: Columbus Day

Art

Met Holiday Monday: Columbus Day

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's a day off for some lucky New Yorkers (thanks, Chris!), but that doesn't mean you should rest on your cultural... 

<em>Rome 78</em> (1978)

Film

Rome 78 (1978)

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction... 

Figment (North American Album Launch), Matt Haimovitz w/ Du Yun

Music: Experimental

Figment (North American Album Launch), Matt Haimovitz w/ Du Yun

Monday 10/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Matt Haimovitz, solo cello and electronics Figment (North American album launch) with Du Yun 9:30 pm doors... 

Theatre

Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant

Monday 10/12 @ Joe's Pub

Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (a Village Voice Choice and Time Out New York favorite), is not a... 

Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Music

Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Monday 10/12 @ The Bowery Presents

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com  ... 

Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan / Gina Leishman & Kenny Wollesen: An evening of non-traditional instruments

Music: Experimental

Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan / Gina Leishman & Kenny Wollesen: An evening of non-traditional instruments

Monday 10/12 @ Joe's Pub

"transporting...beautiful and inspired sounds" -- Village Voice "Terry Dame is one of those... 

Sarah Cahill, piano and Rachel Grimes

Music: Classical

Sarah Cahill, piano and Rachel Grimes

Monday 10/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Wordless Music and (Le) Poisson Rouge present: Sarah Cahill Rachel Grimes (of Rachels) 6:30 pm doors 7:30 pm show 18+ or... 

Music

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions

Monday 10/12 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Hope Sandoval was born June 24, 1966 and grew up in east L.A. with her Mexican-American family. She started her career... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 10/12 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 10/12 @ 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,... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Monday 10/12 @ City Hall Park

Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a... 

<em>The Yes Men Fix the World</em>

Film

The Yes Men Fix the World

Monday 10/12 @ Film Forum

A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 10/12 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Eye of God</em>

Theatre

Eye of God

Monday 10/12 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

Tim Blake Nelson's Eye Of God is an intriguing, noirish murder mystery set in a small town outside of Oklahoma City... 

Les Paul Mondays

Music

Les Paul Mondays

Monday 10/12 @ Iridium Jazz Club

It's hard to think of someone more instrumental in shaping the sound of modern music than Les Paul. In addition to... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Monday 10/12 @ American Museum of Natural History

What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious... 

Hungarians in Hollywood

Film

Hungarians in Hollywood

Monday 10/12 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Michael "Casablanca" Curtiz, super-producer Alexander Korda, even Béla Legosi — they and other talented compatriots left Hungary in the early-20th century,... 

Festival: Film

Elia Kazan Festival

Monday 10/12 @ Film Forum

Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate... 

Omar Mullick: <em>Can't Take It With You</em>

Art: Photography

Omar Mullick

Monday 10/12 @ Gallery FCB

Call it Omar Mullick's 21st-century angle on The Americans. For his first solo show, the photographer hyphenates Robert Frank's landmark observance... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 10/12 @ 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... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Monday 10/12 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage

Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,... 

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Art

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad... 

<em>In Search of Beethoven</em>

Film: Documentary

In Search of Beethoven

Monday 10/12 @ Cinema Village

For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the... 

Emerging Artists Theatre Company presents<em> Penny Penniworth</em>

Theatre

Penny Penniworth

Monday 10/12 @ TADA! Theater

Charles Dickens didn't write Penny Penniworth, but Chris Weikel's one-act farce might lead you to believe otherwise. Penny's quest for love... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Monday 10/12 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

<em>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Monday 10/12 @ American Airlines Theater

Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's... 

Creative Time presents Bestu&eacute;-Vives, Martha Colburn and Gonzalo Lebrija at 44 1/2

Art

Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2

Monday 10/12 @ 44 1/2

Following last July's presentation of Deadpan, Creative Time kicks off the fall with video art by three up-and-coming artists on MTV's... 

<em>middlemen</em>

Theatre

middlemen

Monday 10/12 @ Walkerspace

In middlemen, Michael and Stan face an existential crisis when they realize they are the only employees left in the center... 

Maurice Sendak

Art

Maurice Sendak

Monday 10/12 @ Animazing Gallery

Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents... 

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years

Film

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Just before the release of Where the Wild Things Are on October 16, Spike Jonze gets his first retrospective, and with... 

Tokyo Screening

Film: Shorts

Tokyo Screening

Monday 10/12 @ Monster Island

From the Land of the Rising Sun comes a new genus of video artists, and Tokyo-based gallery Pepper's Project curates a... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Monday 10/12 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The... 

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late... 

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert... 

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Monday 10/12 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

Heeb 100 Gallery Exhibit

Art

Heeb 100 Gallery Exhibit

Monday 10/12 @ 92YTribeca

Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture.... 

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from... 

In & Out of Amsterdam: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna... 

Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric... 

MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s <em>The Heretics</em>

Film: Documentary

MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The... 

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary... 

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition... 

Spike Jonze: Award-Winning Music Videos, Short Films, and Commercials, Part 2

Film: Shorts

Spike Jonze: Award-Winning Music Videos, Short Films, and Commercials, Part 2

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Jonze continues... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Monday 10/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture.  ... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Monday 10/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created... 

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Art

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States... 

<em>Being John Malkovich</em> (1999)

Film

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Somewhere between... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Monday 10/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Monday 10/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...