Events on Monday, March 8
Monday 3/ 8 @ Tribeca Cinemas
There are few moments more electrifying in rock history than when Johnny Cash belted, "I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time...
Danielson Feat. Ortolan and Ben+Vesper
Monday 3/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Danielson - Hailing from suburban Clarksboro, New Jersey, it is difficult to separate Danielson from their gooey visuals (costumes and graphics)...
Monday 3/ 8 @ Terminal 5
Alice in Chains has sold more than twenty million albums in the United States (and an estimated 40 million worldwide), released...
Monday 3/ 8 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The members of Company of Thieves are collectively grounded, and well-versed in the challenges the world faces today. "This is a...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Suzan-Lori Parks' new play The Book of Grace will premiere at The Public Theater in March of 2010. She is "one...
Monday 3/ 8 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with: I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business / PersonL / Deas Vail Aaron Marsh (vocals/guitar), James Likeness (bass),...
Annie Leonard with David Rakoff: The Story of Stuff
Monday 3/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Annie Leonard, the creator the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff (which has been viewed more than 7 million times),...
The Blackened Music Series presents Harvey Milk , Coalesce and The Atlas Moth @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 3/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 03.08.10
The Blackened Music Series presents
Harvey Milk
Coalesce
The Atlas Moth
8pm doors...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 92YTribeca
Set in a quaint fishing community on the outskirts of New York City, City Island is a hilarious tale about a...
Ongoing Events
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Monday 3/ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Monday 3/ 8 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
Monday 3/ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ 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 3/ 8 @ IFC Center
The Triplets of Belleville producers team up to bring this fantastical tale to the big screen. Tomm Moore's adventurous hand-drawn feature...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAM screens a handful of international releases on the heels of their world premieres at the venerable Rotterdam Festival. Don't miss...
Monday 3/ 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...
Fierce and Fabulous: Anne Bancroft
Monday 3/ 8 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center sings here's to you Anne Bancroft with this best-of look at her lauded career. Otherwise confused for Mrs. Robinson,...
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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 3/ 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 3/ 8 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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 3/ 8 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
The full title of Susanna Centlivre's Restoration comedy is The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! Director Rebecca Patterson's adaptation shortens...
Monday 3/ 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...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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....
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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 3/ 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,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Monday 3/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Monday 3/ 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...
Monday 3/ 8 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Monday 3/ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Monday 3/ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 3/ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 3/ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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....
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 3/ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 3/ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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
Monday 3/ 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...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Monday 3/ 8 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Monday 3/ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 3/ 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...
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Monday 3/ 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...
Hungover Happy Hour: Game Night
Monday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Monday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Monday 3/ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 3/ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Monday 3/ 8 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Monday 3/ 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...
