Events on Monday, May 3
Monday 5/ 3 @ NYU Kimmel Center
Acumen Fund is a fantastic nonprofit that approaches poverty through an entrepreneurial lense, helping poor but intrepid people around the world...
Monday 5/ 3 @ New York Society for Ethical Culture
In the past few years, the inventive Elevator Repair Service has been transposing the American literary canon into lively staged works....
Monday 5/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
In 2006 Corinne Bailey Rae released her self-titled debut album, a record she had recorded on a shoestring budget while still...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Introduced by Charles Gibson, John Irving makes his 10th appearance at the Poetry Center, reading from his new novel, Last Night in...
Monday 5/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Inga Kuznetsova was born in the Krasnodar region in 1974. She studied journalism, philosophy, and literary criticism at Moscow State University,...
The Knights w/ music of Gabriela Lena Frank, Dvořák, Schubert, and Satie/Debussy
Monday 5/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Knights are a fellowship of adventurous musicians who creatively engage audiences in the shared joy of musical performance. Based in...
Luciano Siracusano: Investing with ETFs
Monday 5/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I. Noveck, moderators
Luciano Siracusano is cofounder...
Ongoing Events
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Monday 5/ 3 @ Various locations
We love New York Restaurant Week, and LuckyRice's spin on that fine-dining super-saver is a welcome one. Tons of top restaurants...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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....
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Monday 5/ 3 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Monday 5/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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,...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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....
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos closes May 10th
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 5/ 3 @ 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...
