Events on Monday, October 19

Best New Poets 2009

Books: Reading

Best New Poets 2009

Monday 10/19 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Hear from top talent and emerging poets tonight. Because tonight they're giving a free reading at Housing Works, but next year,... 

Music

Bob Weir & Ratdog @ Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center

Monday 10/19 @ The Bowery Presents

Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center
www.mcstudios.com
311 W 34th St
New York, NY 10001-2418
(212) 279-7740
... 

Hildur Guðnadóttir w/ Bing and Ruth

Music

Hildur Guðnadóttir w/ Bing and Ruth

Monday 10/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Hildur Guðnadóttir Bing & Ruth 6:30 pm doors, 7:30 pm show $10 advance, $12 day of show All Ages This is... 

Morgan Karr (of Spring Awakening)

Theatre

Morgan Karr (of Spring Awakening)

Monday 10/19 @ Joe's Pub

Morgan Karr returns to Joe's Pub following his sold-out... 

In Conversation: An Evening with John Cale

Special Event

In Conversation: An Evening with John Cale

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


Part of the Modern Mondays film series
In conjunction with the exhibition Looking... 

Chinua Achebe in Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah

Books: Poetry

Chinua Achebe in Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah

Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

The year 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which "may well be Africa’s best-loved novel," wrote... 

Mind-Body Problems: A Conversation About Science, Fiction and God

Special Event

Mind-Body Problems: A Conversation About Science, Fiction and God

Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein / Introduction by Melvin Konner

What happens... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 10/19 @ Paragraph

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

<em>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Penny Penniworth

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Monday 10/19 @ 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 10/19 @ Film Forum

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

Hungarians in Hollywood

Film

Hungarians in Hollywood

Monday 10/19 @ 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,... 

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Art

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

<em>middlemen</em>

Theatre

middlemen

Monday 10/19 @ Walkerspace

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

<em>The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture</em>

Art

The Wilde Years

Monday 10/19 @ School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts is one of the most respected art schools in the country, but it's usually the fine... 

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

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Monday 10/19 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Monday 10/19 @ BAM

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

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Monday 10/19 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 10/19 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Monday 10/19 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Re:Construction

Monday 10/19 @ Various locations

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 10/19 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Les Paul Mondays

Music

Les Paul Mondays

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Maurice Sendak

Art

Maurice Sendak

Monday 10/19 @ Animazing Gallery

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

Festival: Film

Elia Kazan Festival

Monday 10/19 @ Film Forum

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

<em>In Search of Beethoven</em>

Film: Documentary

In Search of Beethoven

Monday 10/19 @ Cinema Village

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

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Ars Nova presents ANT Fest 2009

Theatre

ANT Fest

Monday 10/19 @ Ars Nova Theater

Ars Nova's ANT Fest gives artists from every imaginable discipline a chance to show off their stuff. Nothing much is sacred... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Omar Mullick

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Monday 10/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Monday 10/19 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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,... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Monday 10/19 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Find Your Perfect Colors

Special Event

Find Your Perfect Colors

Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Rosa Rodriguez

Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the... 

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

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Monday 10/19 @ 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.... 

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 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

<em>Adela</em> (2008)

Film

Adela (2008)

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


Part of MoMA's ContemporAsian film series
Watch the film trailer ... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

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 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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 10/19 @ 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... 

Special Event

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Sharon Good

Are you dissatisfied with your current job or career path... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Monday 10/19 @ 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.  ... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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 10/19 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

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 10/19 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Monday 10/19 @ Brooklyn Bowl

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

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 10/19 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Monday 10/19 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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