Events on Monday, December 28
Met Holiday Monday: Christmas/New Year's Week
Monday 12/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come and explore the Met on a Monday! December 28 the Main Building—select galleries, public restaurants, and shops—will be open from...
Monday 12/28 @ Joe's Pub
Fresh from a sell-out show at The Hollywood Palladium and a major UK tour, Pam Ann,...
Susan Collins and Tucker Caploe
Monday 12/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
My Teenage Stride , Fluffy Lumbers and Little Gold
Monday 12/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Monday 12/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
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Ongoing Events
Monday 12/28 @ Joe's Pub
1989: George H.W. Bush had replaced Reagan, Soviet war was waged in Afghanistan, and Sandra Bernhard was wowing Broadway with a...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 12/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Monday 12/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly...
Monday 12/28 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For its last hurrah of the year, the Film Society plays best-loved titles from programs gone by, like Latinbeat and First...
Monday 12/28 @ Village Vanguard
The Bad Plus merge the best of jazz and rock, covering everyone from Nirvana to Serge Gainsbourg. Expect a festive set...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 303 Bond Street
Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Monday 12/28 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Monday 12/28 @ Kraine Theater
In its round-up of irreverent Christmas shows, the New York Times joked, "Come On, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On." The...
Monday 12/28 @ IFC Center
Having bid a fond fare-thee-well to the Tramp four years earlier in Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin took on Hitler and fascism...
Monday 12/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Museum of the Moving Image
With its ballooning list of all-ages favorites — from Toy Story to WALL-E — Pixar has become the byword for animated...
Monday 12/28 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Monday 12/28 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Theatrical director Bart Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) re-envisions Jacques Offenbach's popular opera about the crazy imagination of...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Film Forum
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Monday 12/28 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Union Square Theatre
When reminding audiences to silence phones and not take pictures, Groovaloo's DJ should add, "Don't try this at home!" After all,...
Monday 12/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Gogol Bordello are known for raucous live shows that spill into the crowd, often ending with a Gogol girl perched defiantly...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Film Forum
Glamour, bon mots, and mythos define this tribute to our city's comedic heritage. There are "aha"s throughout Harold Lloyd's Speedy and...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 12/28 @ 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: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Monday 12/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Monday 12/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Monday 12/28 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 12/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Joe's Pub
"Just the ticket" –Time Out New York "Cruelly funny" -Madonna "We love her" –Vogue Fresh from a sell-out show at The...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Monday 12/28 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and restaurant owner Danny Meyer discuss the painting Chinese Restaurant by John Sloan in...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 12/28 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 12/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Monday 12/28 @ Joe's Pub
"Funny, Moving, Sexy, Hot, Cool and Genuinely on the edge. A powerhouse. You are likely to be...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Monday 12/28 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Monday 12/28 @ 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,...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Monday 12/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Come in for our end-of-the-year blowout sale where all books, DVDs, CDs, and records are 10% off for all customers and...
Monday 12/28 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Monday 12/28 @ 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....
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 12/28 @ 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...
