Events on Monday, September 13
Monday 9/13 @ Death by Audio
The Rumpus, culture blog run by Stephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries), is hosting yet another spectacular variety show with high-caliber performers....
Gala Benefit for Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool
Monday 9/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
RECEPTION AND DINNER 6:00 - 10:00 pm Join Honorary Chairs Tom Freston, Lucy Liu, and Mrs. Yoshiko Mori in celebrating Yoshitomo...
Monday 9/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Peter Evans Quintet 9.13.10 $10 10:00 PM | All Ages Peter Evans Quintet Peter Evans has been a member...
Ru Freeman and Jessica Jiji: Novelists on “The East”
Monday 9/13 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Sri Lankan novelist Ru Freeman (A Disobedient Girl) and Iraqi novelist Jessica Jiji (Sweet Dates in Basra) read from their books...
Deerhoof w/Father Murphy and AXIOM @ (le) poisson rouge
Monday 9/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
San Francisco’s Deerhoof mixes sugary melodies and an experimental spirit into sweetly challenging and utterly distinctive music. The group began as...
An Evening with Dan Barber of Blue Hill and The Mirror Visions Ensemble @ LPR
Monday 9/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Dan Barber began farming and cooking for family and friends at Blue Hill Farm in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In May of...
Monday 9/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also Performing: Sherlocks Daughter Prior to the release of the group's eponymous third album, Tim Burgess sang on the Chemical Brothers'...
Heathers: The Musical (concert presentation)
Monday 9/13 @ Joe's Pub
“Heathers: The Musical” is making its New York City debut with a concert at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater...
Eliza Griswold and Steve Coll: The Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Monday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Hear award-winning investigative journalist Eliza Griswold discuss her seven-year journey along a faith-based fault line running nearly 9,000 miles through Africa...
Ongoing Events
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Monday 9/13 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Monday 9/13 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Monday 9/13 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Art and terrorism make a gruesome twosome in this contemporary noir drama of intrigue and roadkill. A modern-day undercover agent with...
Monday 9/13 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
"Crossing the Line" lives up to its name with these two site-specific presentations — though attendees won't know the exact details...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Monday 9/13 @ Angelika Film Center
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part in a two-part series based on the memoir of notorious French gangster Mesrine. During...
Another American: Asking and Telling
Monday 9/13 @ DR2 Theatre
Marc Wolf's performance in his one-man show Another American: Asking and Telling is revelatory. As he inhabits the voices of dozens...
Monday 9/13 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 9/13 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Monday 9/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
Is our government lying to us? In Amir Bar-Lev's documentary The Tillman Story, the Tillman family is unfortunately faced with this...
Monday 9/13 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"...
Monday 9/13 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Visual Arts Gallery
Some say that Iran hasn't seen protests this size since the 1979 revolution. These green movement protests began as a response...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ IFC Center
Actor Romain Duris displays his charming versatility in Heartbreaker, a clever romantic-comedy from first-time French feature-filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil. Duris is Alex...
Free Reading Installation of Hetero
Monday 9/13 @ Performance Space 122
In Hetero by Arthur Nauzyciel, an all-male cast struggles with concepts of gender in modern society. Humorous and cynical, Hetero is...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Monday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Monday 9/13 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Monday 9/13 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Monday 9/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Create and submit your own prayer flag in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence. The completed flags will be strung...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 9/13 @ 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...
