Events on Monday, November 2

Raymond Chandler Meets Craigslist: HBO's <em>Bored to Death</em>

Special Event

Raymond Chandler Meets Craigslist

Monday 11/ 2 @ Paley Center

Where Raymond Chandler left off, Robert B. Parker took up. Now, it's Jonathan Ames' turn, as he heralds in the new... 

Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson: Symphony no. 1

Music: Experimental

Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson: Symphony no. 1

Monday 11/ 2 @ Performance Space 122

The Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson (currently representing Iceland at the Venice Biennale with "The End", a non-stop performance... 

The Forward and the Foundation for Jewish Culture present “Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred” With special guests Girls In Trouble

Music: Global

The Forward and the Foundation for Jewish Culture present “Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred” With special guests Girls In Trouble

Monday 11/ 2 @ Joe's Pub

The Forward and the Foundation for Jewish Culture present ... 

"Music/Words" Inna Faliks, piano Jesse Ball, poet

Music

"Music/Words" Inna Faliks, piano Jesse Ball, poet

Monday 11/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

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Noah & The Whale / Robert Francis

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge

Special 3-Night Run! Noah & The Whale - 10:00 Robert Francis - 9:00   Charlie Fink started playing the guitar when... 

Alessio Bax

Music: Classical

Alessio Bax

Monday 11/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

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Alessio Bax, piano
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spanDavid Darst: Asset Allocation in Challenging Times

Special Event

David Darst: Asset Allocation in Challenging Times

Monday 11/ 2 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I. Noveck, moderators

David Darst is the... 

TONIGHT! Twitter Founder tweets his subconscious at the Rubin Museum

Special Event

TONIGHT! Twitter Founder tweets his subconscious at the Rubin Museum

Monday 11/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art

*** $7 if you have a student ID! ***   Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sits down with analyst Douglas Tompkins during... 

NYMF’s Next Broadway Sensation winner Shawna M. Hamic: Outside The Box

Music

NYMF’s Next Broadway Sensation winner Shawna M. Hamic: Outside The Box

Monday 11/ 2 @ Joe's Pub

For the past four years, hundreds of actors have auditioned for the opportunity to be crowned NYMF’s... 

Music: Experimental

Fuck Buttons

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Performing with Growing.   The Bristol, England-based experimental duo Fuck Buttons -- Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power -- formed in... 

An Exploration Of Adlerian Ideas: Alfred Adler: Understanding His Vision

Special Event

An Exploration Of Adlerian Ideas: Alfred Adler: Understanding His Vision

Monday 11/ 2 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Ellen Mendel and Barbara Berger

Discover how Adler's concept of "social interest"... 

Maria Muldaur's Garden of Joy Jug Band

Music

Maria Muldaur's Garden of Joy Jug Band

Monday 11/ 2 @ Joe's Pub

Maria Muldaur, “America’s First Lady of Roots Music,” is coming full circle and returning to her beginnings... 

China Art(s) Today: A Conversation between Tan Dun and Wenda Gu

Special Event

China Art(s) Today: A Conversation between Tan Dun and Wenda Gu

Monday 11/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum

Come hear two of China’s most provocative and adventuresome artistic voices
... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

The Wilde Years

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 11/ 2 @ Paragraph

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

1962 New York Film Critics Circle

Film

1962 New York Film Critics Circle

Monday 11/ 2 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr.... 

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

Art

Re:Construction

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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,... 

Ars Nova presents ANT Fest 2009

Theatre

ANT Fest

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Monday 11/ 2 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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,... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Monday 11/ 2 @ August Wilson Theatre

Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical... 

Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond

Film

Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond

Monday 11/ 2 @ Anthology Film Archives

If Hollywood is a machine, its most prolific mechanic has to be Roger Corman. He's worked in more genres and discovered... 

Maurice Sendak

Art

Maurice Sendak

Monday 11/ 2 @ Animazing Gallery

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

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Performa 09

Festival: Art

Performa 09

Monday 11/ 2 @ Various locations

Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city... 

<em>What Once We Felt</em>

Theatre

What Once We Felt

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Duke Theater

With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy... 

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

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Omar Mullick

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Les Paul Mondays

Music

Les Paul Mondays

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Monday 11/ 2 @ New York Public Library

On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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>This Is Beauty, Girls</em>: Nine Cyanotypes by Jo Andres

Art

This Is Beauty, Girls

Monday 11/ 2 @ Superfine Gallery and Restaurant

Jo Andres, a filmmaker and choreographer from NYC's '80s experimental art scene, presents a collection of her visual artwork for the... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Monday 11/ 2 @ IFC Center

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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'... 

<em> Creature </em>

Theatre

Creature

Monday 11/ 2 @ Ohio Theatre

Set in the 15th century, Creature is a play that captures its backward period while remaining thoroughly modern. Beer brewer (and... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 11/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Monday 11/ 2 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,... 

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Monday 11/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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You Cannot Start Without Me

Film

You Cannot Start Without Me

Monday 11/ 2 @ Symphony Space

An exclusive "year in the life" look at one of the leading conductors of our time on the go: rehearsal excerpts and performance... 

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Art

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of... 

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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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,... 

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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: 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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Art

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Monday 11/ 2 @ 92YTribeca

Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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 11/ 2 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Monday 11/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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.... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Monday 11/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his... 

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

Art: Photography

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

Monday 11/ 2 @ 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...