Events on Monday, September 28
Monday 9/28 @ Highline Ballroom
The Moth recently expanded its popular StorySLAM series into Brooklyn, incorporating some of our favorite venues and creating exponentially more opportunities...
"Girls Gone Weill" Main Squeeze Orchestra
Monday 9/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 09.28.09
Main Squeeze Orchestra
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm show
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Monday 9/28 @ Joe's Pub
"Cara Dillon, is without exaggeration, amongst the very finest to be heard today."
All Dolled Up: A New York Dolls Story (2005)
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
Monday 9/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 09.28.09
Loren Stillman featuring Bad Touch
10pm doors | 10:30pm...
John and Molly Get Along w/ Ted Alexandro, Ophira Eisenberg and Mike Lawrence
Monday 9/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 09.28.09
John and Molly Get Along
w/ Ted...
Monday 9/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer...
Monday 9/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tony Dekker, the singer/songwriter behind the musical project Great...
Ongoing Events
Monday 9/28 @ Blank SL8
Marrying a contemporary design aesthetic to old-fashioned wanderlust, the Design-to-Go pop-up boutique by retailer AREAWARE presents an alternative view of the...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Alain Resnais opens the NYFF's strongest lineup in years with Wild Grass, which beguiled critics at Cannes. Other...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)
Blind Lemon Blues shines brightest when the writers let classics by Blind Lemon, Led Belly, and others take center stage. Three...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ Various locations
FIAF's yearly, interdisciplinary festival Crossing the Line presents a three-week slate of exciting new works by artists from New York and...
Monday 9/28 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ New York City Center
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ Angelika Film Center
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Monday 9/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
French actress Juliette Binoche has built an impressively diverse resumé over the past two decades. But while she tackles traditional leading-lady...
Monday 9/28 @ Film Forum
"How'd you like to wake up in the morning and be him?" slurs delusional prizefighter Stacy Keach in this late-career tour...
Monday 9/28 @ Various locations
One glance at the schedule for the second-annual 1st Irish theatre festival makes clear that the dramatic voices of today's Ireland...
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Monday 9/28 @ powerHouse Arena
This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre...
Monday 9/28 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
Monday 9/28 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Monday 9/28 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Monday 9/28 @ 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
Monday 9/28 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 9/28 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Monday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide...
Monday 9/28 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition...
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Monday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Monday 9/28 @ 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 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Monday 9/28 @ 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— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Monday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Monday 9/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Monday 9/28 @ 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...
