Events on Monday, October 19
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,...
Bob Weir & Ratdog @ Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center
Monday 10/19 @ The Bowery Presents
New York, NY 10001-2418
(212) 279-7740
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)
Monday 10/19 @ Joe's Pub
Morgan Karr returns to Joe's Pub following his sold-out...
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
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
Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein / Introduction by Melvin Konner
What happens...
Ongoing Events
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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”
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
Monday 10/19 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
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,...
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
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
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...
Monday 10/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rosa Rodriguez
Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the...
“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”
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...
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....
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: 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
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”
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...
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
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
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
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)
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
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...
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
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...
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”
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
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...
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...
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
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
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!
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
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
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...
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
Monday 10/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
