Events on Monday, January 4
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge
Bryan Scary brings back the glee of glam, evoking Bowie in his well-crafted songs about fantastical adventures. His energy is unmistakable,...
Monday 1/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Ongoing Events
Monday 1/ 4 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 1/ 4 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
Monday 1/ 4 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Monday 1/ 4 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Film Forum
Glamour, bon mots, and mythos define this tribute to our city's comedic heritage. There are "aha"s throughout Harold Lloyd's Speedy and...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Morgan Library
J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 1/ 4 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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 1/ 4 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Monday 1/ 4 @ American Airlines Theater
Nicholas Martin's madcap revival of Present Laughter scores some big laughs, even if the subtlety of Noel Coward's original wit becomes...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 303 Bond Street
Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris...
Monday 1/ 4 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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 1/ 4 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision....
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and restaurant owner Danny Meyer discuss the painting Chinese Restaurant by John Sloan in...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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....
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Monday 1/ 4 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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. ...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two historians of New York’s Lower East Side—Joyce Mendelsohn and Annie Polland—discuss Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows's 1913 depiction of the neighborhood,...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,...
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition...
Monday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Monday 1/ 4 @ New York Live Arts
"Bogart's SITI Company touches the transcendent." - Columbus Dispatch Five evenings, five windows into the creative process of the groundbreaking SITI...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Monday 1/ 4 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Monday 1/ 4 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric...
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
