Events on Monday, June 7
Monday 6/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Perhaps you were first enlightened about typography and its influence on global visual culture from the film Helvetica. But before the...
NYPL Live Featuring John Waters
Monday 6/ 7 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Z-movie turned mainstream filmmaker of the pencil mustache, John Waters comes to the Upper Terrace at Bryant Park to talk trash....
Monday 6/ 7 @ The Fat Black Pussycat
Fifty years ago, the equivalent of Bowery Ballroom (or maybe, due to its size: the Mercury Lounge) was Gerde's Folk City....
Have the Rules Changed for Foreign Businesses in China?
Monday 6/ 7 @ Asia Society and Museum
For over three decades, foreign businesses have been welcomed into China. And with its accession to the WTO in 2001, increased...
Monday 6/ 7 @ Terminal 5
La Roux are an English electropop “synth duo” band made up of singer and synth player Elly Jackson and co-writer and...
Isaiah Fest: an All-Star Salute to Isiah sheffer
Monday 6/ 7 @ Symphony Space
Premium seats to Isaiah Fest are sold out but there are still $40 tickets available! If you would like to contribute at...
The Onion / AV Club Present: Anamanaguchi
Monday 6/ 7 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The Onion / AV Club Present: Anamanaguchi plus Home Video Blast Off!! ...
Camera Obscura @ Grand Ballroom @ Manhattan Center
Monday 6/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Camera Obscura returned to the road in March 2009 with intimate shows in London, New York and at the South By...
Marsen Jules Trio + VJ Nicolai Konstantinovic @ (le) poisson rouge
Monday 6/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Marsen Jules Trio
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Attacca String Quartet
and Columbia Computer Music Center
7:00pm...
Ongoing Events
Monday 6/ 7 @ Matcha Box
Green tea is an ancient tradition, but this Japanese staple gets a thoroughly modern update with Matcha Box, a pop-up store...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Monday 6/ 7 @ Various locations
It's baaaaaaaack! Internet Week is simply the event of the season for New York techies, Silicon Alley residents, designers, bloggers, and...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Astor Center
Enthusiastic and adventurous eaters, rejoice! The first Gourmet Latino Festival brings together the top tier of Latin American chefs and mixologists...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 6/ 7 @ BAM
Perfect for those of us who love soccer — but from the sidelines — this film series covers all the "football"...
Monday 6/ 7 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Monday 6/ 7 @ Theatre 80
In the past two years, the Amoralists have become one of the most daring, complex, and original downtown theatre companies —...
Monday 6/ 7 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
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...
Lyrics & Lyricists™—In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening: The Stardust of Hoagy Carmichael
Monday 6/ 7 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ted Sperling, artistic director & host
Jeffrey Klitz, music director &...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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,...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Monday 6/ 7 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Monday 6/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Killing the Buddha and Obit Mag have teamed up with the Rubin for this deadly essay contest inspired by the exhibition,...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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....
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 6/ 7 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Monday 6/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition presents 70 extraordinary works by masters of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the outstanding collections of...
