Events on Monday, February 8
Mighty Kate w/ Greg Holden @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 2/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
CD release party for Katy Pfaffl’s latest studio album, “Mighty Kate”!
For tickets, visit http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/875 or call 866 55...
Monday 2/ 8 @ Symphony Space
*FLAVORPILL SPECIAL Get your $25 tickets for this benefit event by using code SSH139 when purchasing tickets. For nearly two...
Abby Joseph Cohen: After the Great Recession
Monday 2/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I. Noveck, moderators
Abby Joseph Cohen is...
Monday 2/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Destry
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Mean Creek, The Narrative, Borrowed Eyes & The Blood Red Road ...
Fancy Trash / The Bridesmaids / Green Girl
Monday 2/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
Fancy Trash works the line between rock and folk, blending a non-traditional sensibility with the tradition of acoustic instruments to make...
Monday 2/ 8 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The music of Brooklyn's Yeasayer is an eclectic, genre-bending journey into pop, druggy rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and...
Ongoing Events
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ The Gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center
Only a footnote by David Foster Wallace could inspire a constellation of artists and filmmakers to make real what was dreamt....
Monday 2/ 8 @ Film Forum
Ahead of Akira Kurosawa's centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur's consummate filmography (on queue:...
Monday 2/ 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 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Monday 2/ 8 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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 2/ 8 @ Various locations
Poland's Unsound Festival, a blowout for experimental, club, and post-classical music, comes to New York with a slew of concerts, films,...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
This week-long celebration of chocolate satisfies a wide variety of sweet tooths with an inventive lineup of top-notch confectionaries. A sample...
Monday 2/ 8 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Monday 2/ 8 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Monday 2/ 8 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Richard Strauss' richly constructed opera-within-an-opera combines a savvy comment on the art of creating with some of the most fantastical creations...
Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanity
Monday 2/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In terms of pure wonder, the Planet-Earth documentaries of yesteryear can definitely compete with today's HD beauties. See Cousteau's 1964 World...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 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 2/ 8 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Monday 2/ 8 @ IFC Center
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 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 2/ 8 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Monday 2/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Springing up in 1970 UWS as a weekends-only screening room, Film Forum is now the Houston Street mecca for tri-state cinephiles....
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
Cacao alchemists and chocolate aficionados gather under the same roof for an ecstatic chocolate excursion through the senses, courtesy of Migration...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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 2/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Monday 2/ 8 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 8 @ Performance Space 122
FINAL CHANCE: Guarantee a high-performance Valentine’s
Purchase (or use) a PS122 Passport between NOW and FEBRUARY 15 and be entered...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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 2/ 8 @ 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. ...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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/ 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....
Monday 2/ 8 @ 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...
