Events on Monday, June 8
Monday 6/ 8 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
David Byrne kicks off the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series with a show similar to his Radio City performance in February. For...
Monday 6/ 8 @ Webster Hall
Amadou & Mariam perform tonight at Webster Hall as a stop on their whirlwind US tour. The couple first met 30...
Ongoing Events
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 6/ 8 @ Various locations
Internet Week successfully brings together the masters, muses, and mutts of the digital age for parties, discussions, panels, mixers, and seminars....
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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...
Dastangoi: The Adventures of Amir Hamza
Monday 6/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum
Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas — a ten-day festival gathering works of artistic expression from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and...
The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009
Monday 6/ 8 @ Open House Gallery
Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork....
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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....
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Monday 6/ 8 @ 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 6/ 8 @ 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...
