Events on Monday, December 7
Monday 12/ 7 @ The Rose Gallery
Grant McCracken's work sits at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His most recent book, Chief Culture Officer: How to Create...
The Coming Commercial Revolution in the Muslim World
Monday 12/ 7 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
As an adviser to Obama administration official Richard Holbrooke, Vali Nasr is in a position to turn his ideas into policy....
Live From Home Concert with Rhett Miller and Jill Hennessy
Monday 12/ 7 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A benefit concert starring Rhett Miller and Jill Hennessey. Rhett Miller is the front man and main songwriter of the...
Monday 12/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
"Everything about the Swingles is flawless"
-Los Angeles Times
International a cappella sensation...
WE ARE THE SONG: AFTER THE STORM 2!
Monday 12/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
An extraordinary second helping of original songs to benefit The North Rampart Street Community Center and the...
Liv Ullmann: Between Screen and Stage
Monday 12/ 7 @ BAM
Ingmar Bergman’s muse Liv Ullmann (Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, Autumn Sonata), “the emblem of arthouse cinema throughout the 60s and...
Monday 12/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Nick & Helen Foster Host The show will commence promptly at 8pm. eTown is recorded live and once it has started...
Monday 12/ 7 @ Symphony Space
"A born showman. Creel's ultra-hip stage presence and sleek sexiness barely contain the kind of star quality that other singers can...
New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik at the Rubin
Monday 12/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Writer and commentator Adam Gopnik will join Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck on stage to interpret Carl Jung's Red Book. The Red...
Ongoing Events
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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,...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Film Forum
Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick's three-week Fight Fest celebrates the art and grace of fight choreography and features the premiere of festival curator Tim...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ IFC Center
John Maringouin's documentary charts Solvenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel's journey to swim the (until now) unconquerable Amazon river. He's already wet...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Monday 12/ 7 @ Angelika Film Center
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Film Forum
Bill Condon's wonderful Gods and Monsters (1998) was a boon to the unofficial James Whale appreciation club (of which we're a...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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:...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ Walkerspace
Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text...
Monday 12/ 7 @ IFC Center
For two weekends, this mini-retrospective highlights a few of the legendary Southern dramatist's most memorable cinematic moments, such as Elizabeth Taylor's...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore
Monday 12/ 7 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore has scoured the marketplaces of Asia to bring you the perfect gift at the perfect price! Celebrate the season with...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Starting this Friday! Holidays in the Himalayas Shopping Event
Monday 12/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Shop at the Rubin Museum of Art celebrates its 5th annual Holidays in the Himalayas shopping event from December 4-7....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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. ...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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....
