Events on Monday, August 2
Wavves w/ the Smith Westerns and Total Slacker
Monday 8/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom
In line with fuzz-punkers like No Age and Times New Viking, Wavves mastermind Nathan Williams is as inspired by the Beach...
Olivier Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen with pianists Marilyn Nonken and Sarah Rothenberg
Monday 8/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Marilyn Nonken is one of the most celebrated champions of the modern repertoire of her generation, known for performances that explore...
Monday 8/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
The self-proclaimed 'Dirty Old One Man Band' successfully, and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly and country precariously to raucous punk...
Free to Dream: The Songs of Katsaros and Schermerhorn
Monday 8/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
Take a musical road trip across the country in an evening devoted to the songs of Katsaros...
Monday 8/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A Tribe Called Tes is a concept album/mixtape conceived, recorded and mixed by NYC Rap/Producer Tes Uno. Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is part...
Ongoing Events
Monday 8/ 2 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
There are a few more days left to catch 83-year-old British cinematic contrarian Ken Russell in-person at Russellmania, a hit parade...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ IFC Center
If you want to be fully prepared come Oscar-pool time, we recommend checking out DocuWeek's smorgasbord of non-fiction fare. Now in...
Monday 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The MoMA's film collection may not be as old as the Declaration of Independence but it does embody similar principles. Perhaps...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Giant Robot New York
Giant Robot's Printed Matter series has established itself as the place to hunt for great original artwork by up-and-coming artists on...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Monday 8/ 2 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Cinema Village
Long before Lindsay Lohan was a twinkle in her father's eye, Ron "paparazzi extraordinaire" Galella was figuring out devious ways to shoot...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
The Spiegeltent at Bard's annual SummerScape boasts an interior design that would make any Upper East Side apartment-dweller swoon with jealousy:...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Monday 8/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Monday 8/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
Is your house getting cluttered with messy gadgets and wires? Wash 'em out with Performance Space 122's first annual gadget wash....
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Monday 8/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum
Shop AsiaStore’s sale event and enjoy special savings on designer samples, select accessories, jewelry, textiles, home accents, books, and CDs. Asia Society...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Monday 8/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum
This exhibition presents the varied approaches of five contemporary artists to the medium of single-channel video. The simplicity of this video...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Monday 8/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Monday 8/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Monday 8/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Himalayas are home to some of the world's most magnificent peaks and largest glaciers, which supply crucial seasonal flows to...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 8/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 8/ 2 @ 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...
