Events on Monday, March 15

Marina & the Diamonds w/ Samuel

Music

Marina & the Diamonds w/ Samuel

Monday 3/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Under the Marina & the Diamonds moniker, Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis brings quirk back to pop music in an epic way.... 

Hockey

Music

Hockey

Monday 3/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Based out of Portland, Oregon, Hockey's appeal lends itself to a wide variety of music enthusiasts, from those interested in more... 

Music

Bobby Long

Monday 3/15 @ The Mercury Lounge

Cocoon

Music

Cocoon

Monday 3/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Cocoon is a two-piece French band formed in 2006 by Mark Daumail (born 1984, composition, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, ukelele, banjo,... 

American Popular Culture of the Great Depression Era - Escapism

Special Event

American Popular Culture of the Great Depression Era - Escapism

Monday 3/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Howard Oboler, MA

Escapism
Lost Horizon, The Wizard of Oz, King... 

Books: Reading

Writing on Human Rights with Mac McClelland, Gabriel Thompson, and Dana Goldstein

Monday 3/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Join The Daily Beast’s Dana Goldstein, the Nation Institute Investigative Fund’s Gabriel Thompson, and Mother Jones’ Mac McClelland for Writing on... 

Music

The Lovely Feathers w/ Silvertone

Monday 3/15 @ The Mercury Lounge

BrooklynVegan presents a Pre-SXSW Party

Music

BrooklynVegan presents a Pre-SXSW Party

Monday 3/15 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

BrooklynVegan presents a Pre-SXSW Party featuring Let's Wrestle
Casiokids
The Wave Pictures
... 

Muddled Mondays

Food/Wine

Muddled Mondays

Monday 3/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Muddled Mondays 

Service Industry Night $5 Wines, Well Drinks, and Draft Beers!!
Every Monday Night
7-9
... 

Ongoing Events

The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Miroslav Tich&yacute;</em>

Art: Photography

Miroslav Tichý

Monday 3/15 @ 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."... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 3/15 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 3/15 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Malevich in Focus: 1912-1922 </em>

Art

Malevich in Focus

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Monday 3/15 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

<em>Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves</em>

Art

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Monday 3/15 @ The Morgan Library

Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Monday 3/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Carmen</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Carmen

Monday 3/15 @ Metropolitan Opera House

There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by... 

Film: Documentary

Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss

Monday 3/15 @ Film Forum

Leni may be more famed, but this well-made documentary reminds that Veit Harlan was equally instrumental to the Nazi's achtung propaganda.... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Time Stands Still</em>

Theatre

Time Stands Still

Monday 3/15 @ Biltmore Theater

Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of... 

That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!

Film

That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!

Monday 3/15 @ BAM

The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up... 

<em>+30NYC</em>

Theatre

+30NYC

Monday 3/15 @ Center Stage

+30NYC features seven different short plays imagining New York three decades in the future. Best of the bunch are Christine Evans'... 

<em>In the Words of Duras</em>

Performing Arts

In the Words of Duras

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Monday 3/15 @ 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,... 

<em>The New Typography</em>

Art

The New Typography

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Present Laughter</em>

Theatre

Present Laughter

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Diary of a Teenage Girl</em>

Theatre

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Monday 3/15 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Marielle Heller adapts and stars in this raw and powerful take on Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical graphic novel. Diary centers on 15-year-old... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Monday 3/15 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

<em>Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris</em>

Art: Photography

Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris

Monday 3/15 @ International Center of Photography

Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for... 

Last Chance—The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Art

Last Chance—The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Monday 3/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Belles Heures (1405-1408/9) of Jean de Berry is one of the most... 

<em>SN&Oslash;HETTA: architecture &ndash; landscape &ndash; interior</em>

Art

SNØHETTA

Monday 3/15 @ Scandinavia House

   There's currently much ado about the innovative, eco-friendly architecture firm Snøhetta. Based in Oslo, the two-decade-old outfit counts the harmonious,... 

<em>Next Fall</em>

Theatre

Next Fall

Monday 3/15 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall arrives on Broadway with its superb original cast intact, tackling difficult questions about religion and the nature of... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Monday 3/15 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

Brainwave 2010

Festival

Brainwave

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Come Fly Away</em>

Theatre

Come Fly Away

Monday 3/15 @ Marquis Theater

See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway.... 

Victor Fleming Festival

Film

Victor Fleming Festival

Monday 3/15 @ Film Forum

With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded.... 

<em>Blind</em>

Theatre

Blind

Monday 3/15 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Craig Wright's sleek interpretation of Oedipus Rex opens after the dirty secret is revealed and Oedipus (Seth Numrich) and Jocasta (Veanne Cox) are... 

<em>Lenin's Embalmers</em>

Theatre

Lenin's Embalmers

Monday 3/15 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark... 

<em>Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey</em>

Art

Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Theatre

A View From the Bridge

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

The Amoralists present <em>Happy in the Poorhouse</em>

Theatre

Happy In The Poorhouse

Monday 3/15 @ Theatre 80

The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of... 

Les Paul Mondays

Music

Les Paul Mondays

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>A Lie of the Mind</em>

Theatre

A Lie of the Mind

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010

Festival: Film

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010

Monday 3/15 @ Various

This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 3/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Equivocation</em>

Theatre

Equivocation

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Exploding Girl</em>

Film

The Exploding Girl

Monday 3/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

 The pains of being pure at heart are many in Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl, a moody, osmotic character study that... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

William Kentridge:<em> Five Themes</em>

Art

William Kentridge: Five Themes  

Monday 3/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

South African artist William Kentridge paints stark images of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism. Through a wash of pastel and charcoal, he... 

<em>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

<em>Mr. and Mrs. Fitch</em>

Theatre

Mr. and Mrs. Fitch

Monday 3/15 @ Second Stage Theatre

Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played... 

Marguerite Duras on Film

Film

Marguerite Duras on Film

Monday 3/15 @ Anthology Film Archives

The film leg of our city's all-out, month-long tribute to Marguerite Duras salutes her radical directorial career. While that means sorry... 

<em>Black Angels Over Tuskegee</em>

Theatre

Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Monday 3/15 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

<em> Palestine </em>

Theatre

Palestine

Monday 3/15 @ Fourth Street Theatre (83 East 4th street)

What does it mean to be the daughter of "the most famous Palestinian-American"? In Palestine, Najla Said — daughter of the... 

<em>Zero Hour</em>

Theatre

Zero Hour

Monday 3/15 @ DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15th Street

Zero Mostel made his name as a comedian and Broadway star — most famously as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof... 

Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums

Special Event

Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums

Monday 3/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Your ticket to two-for-one admission to the Rubin Museum and six other NYC museum gems. Print it, cut it, and keep... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open

Special Event

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Art

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Special Event

Hungover Happy Hour: Game Night

Monday 3/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

The debut of Hungover Happy Hours, casual Monday-night get-togethers with a variety of themes but consistently cheap drinks. Tonight, BYO board... 

The Drawings of Bronzino

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids

Special Event

Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Romare Bearden&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Block&rdquo;

Art

Romare Bearden’s “The Block”

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Monday 3/15 @ 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.... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

Art

The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

Monday 3/15 @ National Academy Museum

The National Academy presents ... 

Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast

Art

Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Monday 3/15 @ 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

Art

Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Tours

Art

Tours

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport

Special Event

iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport

Monday 3/15 @ Performance Space 122

Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March... 

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

Art

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

Monday 3/15 @ 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... 

Tom Wool: Photography

Art

Tom Wool: Photography

Monday 3/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Come see photographer Tom Wool's awe-inspiring black and white images of life in the Rongbuk Valley. Wool's sensitive images capture the... 

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

Art

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

Monday 3/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures...