Events on Monday, February 22
That Not-So-Fresh Feeling: Marketing Embarassing Products to Women
Monday 2/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Man (er, woman), do we love Sarah Haskins — she of the hilarious, dearly departed Current TV segment "Target: Women." We've...
The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam
Monday 2/22 @ IFC Center
Charles Ludlam carved out a career staging gender-bending gothic satires with his groundbreaking Ridiculous Theatrical Company, influencing countless drag performers like...
Monday 2/22 @ Symphony Space
Music pervades our world, yet who are the men and women creating the sounds we hear? Composers Now is a weeklong...
Service Not Included @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Service Not Included features writers and comedians sharing funny anecdotes and horror stories about their experiences working in the service industry....
The Tenth Muse with John Ashbery
Monday 2/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Readings by Marcella Durand, Robert Elstein and John Gallaher
Living legend John...
Celebrating Black History Month: A Musical Journey of Nina Simone
Monday 2/22 @ Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center and Black Rock Coalition present: American girl, World Citizen: A Musical Journey of Nina Simone A retrospective of the...
Lucy Woodward w/ Conrad Korsch at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
6:30pm doors | 7pm show
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Speaking of the Arts: Composers Today
Monday 2/22 @ Symphony Space
New York Times culture writer Daniel J. Wakin speaks with composers Joan Tower (concert music), Arturo O'Farrill (Afro-Latin jazz), Henry Threadgill...
Monday 2/22 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
King Expressers plus Marianne, Beyondo, Sami Akbari (solo set) Between Fall 2007-Summer 2008 King Expressers was invented in a living...
Monday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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In the Country
10pm doors | 10:30pm show
$12...
Monday 2/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Have you ever dreamt of stepping inside a painting? Under the guidance of Khenchen Tsewang Gyamtso Rinpoche you will be able...
Ongoing Events
Monday 2/22 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Monday 2/22 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Ethan Hawke revives Sam Shepard's 1985 play about an act of violence that sets off a strange series of events. This...
Monday 2/22 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Monday 2/22 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Although she produced art in many mediums, from painting to photography, Viola Frey's lasting imprint can be found in ceramics. As...
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Monday 2/22 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Monday 2/22 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Monday 2/22 @ Theater for the New City
Veteran playwright and actor Charles Busch aims his flamboyant and acerbic wit at the cinematic depiction of convent life in this...
Monday 2/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Various locations
Back in their respective days, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) and The Lover (1984) caused quite a scandal for author Marguerite Duras, who may or may...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Guggenheim Museum
It's been eight-plus decades since the six arresting paintings in this exhibition have been shown together. Their emphatic use of color...
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Monday 2/22 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ International Center of Photography
"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Monday 2/22 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ New York City Center
Bill Cain's fascinating new play gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of Shakespeare and his acting company, the King's...
Monday 2/22 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Monday 2/22 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For the past decade, Film Comment has handpicked art-house, festival, and repertory musts for NYC cinephiles. This trend continues with a...
Monday 2/22 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Peter Gelb's decision to bring in theatrical directors to revive the Met's classic repertoire has paid off nicely, introducing opera lovers...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Monday 2/22 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Monday 2/22 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Monday 2/22 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Monday 2/22 @ 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,...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 2/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Join Nancy and Rachel for reading, singing, and dancing appropriate for kids 3 and under and their caretakers. Special discounts on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua: H3
Monday 2/22 @ New York Live Arts
Brazilian choreographer, Bruno Beltrão makes his NYC debut in an anticipated first ever US tour that highlights his remarkable fusion of...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 2/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Monday 2/22 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Ian Wardropper discusses the Met’s recent acquisition of its first work by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the Austrian sculptor best...
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Monday 2/22 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Monday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Monday 2/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before collage techniques were being used by avant–garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 2/22 @ 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...
