Events on Monday, June 22
Monday 6/22 @ Barnes & Noble
Though Esquire contributor and former Spin writer Chuck Klosterman made his name in nonfiction — Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs entertains...
Monday 6/22 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Rising from the ashes of her previous band, the Distillers, Brody Dalle's Spinnerette is a musical beast of quite a different...
Ongoing Events
Monday 6/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 6/22 @ 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...
New York Asian Film Festival 2009
Monday 6/22 @ IFC Center
For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does...
Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place
Monday 6/22 @ Film Forum
Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film...
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but...
Monday 6/22 @ Vineyard Theatre
The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the...
Monday 6/22 @ Collect Pond Park
The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their...
Monday 6/22 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the...
Monday 6/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The pop troupers of the British Invasion weren't the 1960s' only across-the-pond transplants. In fact, several famous American studio directors —...
Monday 6/22 @ 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...
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
Monday 6/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With its almighty title, The Birth of a Nation (1915) proclaimed a novel directive for then-nascent cinema: let there be narrative....
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ 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...
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including...
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ 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...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Monday 6/22 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Monday 6/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
View the exhibition Napoleon III and Paris before it closes on Monday, September 7 and explore the changing shape of Paris during...
Monday 6/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 6/22 @ 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 6/22 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Monday 6/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Monday 6/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Monday, September 7! Do you remember your first painting? Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his...
Monday 6/22 @ 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
Monday 6/22 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Monday 6/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Monday 6/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Learn how with strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored...
