Events on Monday, November 30
Monday 11/30 @ Lincoln Square
The brag: it's the largest outdoor holiday festival in a city where magnitude matters. The backup: a varied and vibrant program...
Monday 11/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Acclaimed Spanish novelist Javier Marias makes his first US appearance in over 20 years at the 92Y's legendary reading series, joining...
An Evening with Christopher Plummer
Monday 11/30 @ Film Forum
A Christopher Plummer completist has a mighty assignment since the prolific Canadian has spent 60 years on the tele, stage, and...
Sports Lit Reading and Discussion with Jesse Katz, L. Jon Wertheim, and Will Leitch
Monday 11/30 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Whether the topic is little league, pro tennis, or the fans themselves, writing about sports presents a unique set of challenges....
Monday 11/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Rob Drabkin The band's debut recording Roll Away, which featured Adam Jones on bass and Ross Doyle on...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Future Quest: re-imagining the music of Meredith Monk Todd Reynolds
Monday 11/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
Future Quest: re-imagining the music of...
Monday 11/30 @ Joe's Pub
CLEAR, a new musical experience by Paul Oakley Stovall. Chosen as resident artist at Eugene O'Neill National...
Colman Domingo's BIG ASS 40th Birthday Party!
Monday 11/30 @ Joe's Pub
Fresh from his critically acclaimed show "A Boy and His Soul" at the Vineyard Theater, Colman Domingo...
Ongoing Events
Monday 11/30 @ 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,...
Monday 11/30 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Monday 11/30 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
This month, Liv Ullmann redoes A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois. But before she shines a Norwegian...
Monday 11/30 @ IFC Center
A simple, late-career classic from François Truffaut, Small Change is a collection of loving vignettes of the resourceful children in a...
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ Film Forum
Holiday is Jacques Tati's superfine intro to Monsieur Hulot, the French director's lovable alias and a magnet for pratfalls and faux...
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Monday 11/30 @ Village East Cinema
Constructed by Noah Buschel, this neo-noir stars Michael Shannon as a Chicago P.I. with — surprise, surprise — a don't-ask past...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Monday 11/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Monday 11/30 @ Angelika Film Center
Collapse recalls Errol Morris' superlative series of interviews, First Person. Here, it's former LAPD officer turned rebel with cause-for-alarm Michael Ruppert,...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Monday 11/30 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Monday 11/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 11/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
Monday 11/30 @ 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,...
Monday 11/30 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Monday 11/30 @ The Morgan Library
J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Monday 11/30 @ 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: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision....
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Monday 11/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Now on view at the Met is the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo. For decades the fragmentary marble figure...
Monday 11/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 11/30 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Monday 11/30 @ 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
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the...
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Monday 11/30 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Monday 11/30 @ New York Live Arts
"Bogart's SITI Company touches the transcendent." - Columbus Dispatch Five evenings, five windows into the creative process of the groundbreaking SITI...
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ 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
Monday 11/30 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Monday 11/30 @ 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 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Monday 11/30 @ 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
Monday 11/30 @ Lincoln Center
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Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Monday 11/30 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 11/30 @ 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
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Monday 11/30 @ 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
Monday 11/30 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 11/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Monday 11/30 @ 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....
