Events on Monday, June 22

Chuck Klosterman reads from Downtown Owl

Books: Reading

Chuck Klosterman

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... 

Spinnerette w/ Band of Skulls

Music

Spinnerette

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

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 6/22 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

BAMcinemaFEST

Festival: Performing Arts

BAMcinemaFEST

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... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

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... 

Bryant Park P&eacute;tanque

City Gems

Pétanque

Monday 6/22 @ Bryant Park

Members of champion pétanque team La Boule New Yorkaise present Bryant Park Pétanque, to give you newbies a chance to hone... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

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... 

Film

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... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

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... 

Theatre

Hound

Monday 6/22 @ Robert Moss Theatre

John Patrick Bray's Hound takes its name from Sherlock Holmes' and Dr. Watson's best-known case. Only now, the Victorian detecting duo... 

DJ Spooky's <em>Rebirth of a Nation</em>

Film

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.... 

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

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... 

Theatre

Stunning

Monday 6/22 @ The Duke Theater

David Adjmi's off-Broadway debut is a striking, and yes, stunning black satire of the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn. Teenage... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

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... 

<em>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

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... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

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... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

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 Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

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,... 

Film

The Sixties: Yanks in Britain

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 —... 

Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

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... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

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... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

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,... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

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,... 

<em>Shafrika, the White Girl</em>

Theatre

Shafrika, the White Girl

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... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

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.... 

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

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... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

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... 

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Art

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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Art

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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

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

Art

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... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

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...