Events on Monday, April 26
Monday 4/26 @ The Greene Space
This joint event presented by Guernica and the PEN American Center is one of the first events of the PEN World...
The Netherlands / Object/ Gelatine / Quaff
Monday 4/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
"The Netherlands play a kind of futuristic biker rock. Their singer slathers his voice in weird, psycho effects, and their 30...
NewMusicalTheater.com Launch Concert
Monday 4/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
NewMusicalTheatre.com celebrates its recent website launch with a one-night-only live concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City's Greenwich Village....
Monday 4/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Led by one of the most charismatic vocalists in generations, the Boston Globe declares that "SPW splits the difference between AC/DC...
Monday 4/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Danny Robas is one of Israel's most unique singer/songwriters. Full of energy and passion, his powerful music and original lyrics have...
Monday 4/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades:...
Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey
Monday 4/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Terrance Hayes’s “poems explode with the euphoria of summer lightning for our instruction and joy,” wrote John Ashbery. His new collection...
Monday 4/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
Is the Chinese yuan undervalued? Are the Chinese "manipulating" the value of the renmimbi in relation to the dollar? What are...
Monday 4/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Service Not Included features writers and comedians sharing funny anecdotes and horror stories about their experiences working in the service industry....
Ongoing Events
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
We love Ingmar Bergman as much as the next cinephile, but there really is much more to Swedish cinema. Broaden your...
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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,...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Monday 4/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 4/26 @ American Folk Art Museum
Henry Darger is famous for being an outsider artist par excellence, but, with each passing year, the custodian's life in the...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Monday 4/26 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Monday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA says: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography....
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Monday 4/26 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
In back of a small-town cafe, two thirty-something men ponder their existence — or rather, hang out with nothing to do....
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Between grief and nothing, widower and father-of-two Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) chooses grief — a perfectly Gothic response in Irish dramatist...
Monday 4/26 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
The Young@Heart chorus joyfully proves that age is just a number, breathing new life into classics by Lou Reed, Neil Young,...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 4/26 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buried near his tomb in around 1327 B.C., remains from the mummification and funeral of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Monday 4/26 @ Rubin Museum of Art
See the eerily beautiful and grotesque images from the Tibetan Buddhist and Christian European traditions in the form of paintings, sculptures,...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Monday 4/26 @ 3rd Ward
Sweatshop Social
Every last Monday of the Month, 7 to 10 p, FREE
Made for food-shopping fashionistas...
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Hungover Happy Hour: Game Night
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Monday 4/26 @ 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....
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, talks with curator Seán Hemingway about what inspired him...
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Episodes from the great Indian epic the Ramayana are among the themes most favored for Indian miniature painting. This classic of...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 4/26 @ 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...
