Events on Monday, May 10
Monday 5/10 @ BookCourt
Hard to believe that a journal first published in 1889 by students of Cambridge, and which published the juvenilia of Ted...
Author Conversation: Belle Yang, 'Forget Sorrow'
Monday 5/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
This is the New York Launch of a remarkable debut graphic memoir by author Belle Yang (Hannah is My Name, The...
Monday 5/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Bomb The Music Industry! with O Pioneers!!!, Junior Battles, Thousandaires ...
"Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners
Monday 5/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Introduced by Timothy Donnelly, Nick Flynn, Susan Howe and Claudia Rankine
Formerly...
Crash Ensemble w/ music of Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang, and Terry Riley
Monday 5/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 5/10 @ The Bowery Presents
Travis McCoy (born August 5, 1981) is the lead vocalist of the alternative hip-hop group Gym Class Heroes. Travis is currently...
Monday 5/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Ane Brun is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist originally from Norway. Since 2000 she has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where she...
Ongoing Events
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Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 5/10 @ OBEY Pop Up Store
Shepard Fairey will be the first to tell you — his game-changing visuals are as much about commerce as they are...
Monday 5/10 @ Various locations
The second-annual Creative Week returns for seven days of inspiration across genres. (Seriously: from spoken word, television, and typeset to photography...
Monday 5/10 @ powerHouse Arena
The artists in Collective League of Talent (a.k.a. C.L.O.T.), a new group show, explore a multitude of questions and ideas relating...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Monday 5/10 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Monday 5/10 @ P.S. 122
This self-indulgent, techno-savvy society makes the art of first-person narrative look easy. However, the best way of getting your story across...
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Various locations
New York City's top galleries are opening their doors at odd hours to introduce new work and offer up talks and...
Monday 5/10 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Monday 5/10 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Monday 5/10 @ 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....
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Lyrics & Lyricists™—Poisoning Pigeons in the Park: The Art of the Satiric Comedy Song
Monday 5/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rob Fisher, artistic director
Sheldon Harnick, host
David Garrison, script &...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Monday 5/10 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro
Monday 5/10 @ BAM
One of the giants of Portuguese cinema, João César Monteiro’s films reveal a mind that was boundlessly intellectual, uncompromisingly nonconformist, refreshingly...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos closes May 10th
Monday 5/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art's Visions of the Cosmos:From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe exhibit is coming to a...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 5/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Monday 5/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view through August 15, is the...
Monday 5/10 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Monday 5/10 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday 5/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 5/10 @ 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...
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