Events on Monday, May 18
Monday 5/18 @ UCB Theatre
Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis have been enabling flash-mob-style shenanigans in New York — and beyond — for eight...
Ongoing Events
Monday 5/18 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Monday 5/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as...
Monday 5/18 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
If an auteur's debut is their "Dear reader," then their last few films come into sight as postscripts: variations on a...
Monday 5/18 @ 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 5/18 @ Circle in the Square Theatre
Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family...
Monday 5/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Monday 5/18 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Monday 5/18 @ Connelly Theatre
British playwright Chloe Moss has received a number of awards and commissions, but her work hasn't been produced in the US...
Monday 5/18 @ Center for Book Arts
A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use...
Monday 5/18 @ Film Forum
A few albums back, Jay-Z flowed, "I'm living proof that crime do pay/Say hooray to the bad guy." Behold Film Forum's...
Monday 5/18 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Monday 5/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of...
Monday 5/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 5/18 @ 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 5/18 @ Angelika Film Center
Based on cultural stereotypes involving maple syrup, socialized health care, and general congeniality, heavy metal wouldn't seem to be Canada's forte....
Monday 5/18 @ Felissimo Design House
Bring home a taste (or a tasteful element) of Japan from Felissimo Design House's Japan Brand Pop-Up store. If MUJI just...
Monday 5/18 @ 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 5/18 @ International Center of Photography
For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Monday 5/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
Monday 5/18 @ 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....
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Monday 5/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 5/18 @ 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 Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Monday 5/18 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 5/18 @ 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...
