Events on Monday, September 20
Monday 9/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
One of our very favorite Canadians (and at the top of our list of Twitter personalities, as well), Margaret Atwood opens...
Monday 9/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
difrent: Launch Party Stephan Said , Pete Seeger and Blitz the Ambassador w/ an all star band w/ Cindy Blackman, Kevin...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer in conversation
Monday 9/20 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer declares that we cannot take the public’s confidence in the Court for granted and reminds...
Monday 9/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
In less than two years the Mercury Award winning Klaxons have gone from a nebulous but strangely spot-on 'concept' combining indie-rock...
Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit—In Partnership with United Nations Foundation
Monday 9/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Keynote Event – A Conversation with Ted Turner Mashable and 92Y present a Summit of the most inspirational, most promising...
Down Here Below: A Tribute Concert to Abbey Lincoln
Monday 9/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Down Here Below: A Tribute Concert to Abbey Lincoln w/ featured vocalists: Maya Azucena, Tamar Kali, Gretchen Parlato , Somi, Pyeng...
Turtle Island Quartet @ (le) poisson rouge
Monday 9/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
It’s name derived from creation mythology found in Native American Folklore, the Turtle Island Quartet, since its inception in 1985, has...
DCD Collective Presents Blue Monday
Monday 9/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DCD Collective Presents Blue Monday 9.20.10 FREE 9:00PM | 21+ DCD Collective Presents Blue Monday The DCD Collective is...
Ongoing Events
Monday 9/20 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Monday 9/20 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Monday 9/20 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Monday 9/20 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Monday 9/20 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Another American: Asking and Telling
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Monday 9/20 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 9/20 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Monday 9/20 @ 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...
Inspired by the Arts: Using Painting, Poetry and Music to Trigger Your Creativity
Monday 9/20 @ 92YTribeca
Take your inspiration from the arts. In each class, a painting, a poem, a photograph or a piece of music is...
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Monday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Monday 9/20 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Monday 9/20 @ 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...
