Events on Monday, November 28
Monday 11/28 @ powerHouse Arena
Stencil master Ed Roth shares some pointers on the craft made ubiquitous by Banksy, Swoon, and other artists. Learn the basics...
Monday 11/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinématek's series Brooklyn Close-Up continues with Alan Pakula's film Sophie's Choice (1982), in which Meryl Streep gives an Academy Award-winning performance...
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
Monday 11/28 @ Asia Society and Museum
Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently...
Monday 11/28 @ Joe's Pub
Following the release of his debut EP, 'Daylight', Matt Doyle is thrilled to return to Joe's Pub. This stripped, acoustic set of...
Monday 11/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Doors 6:30 PM // Show 7 PM // 18+ The Big Quiz Thing, the live game show that you get to...
Nasty Mondays NYC featuring DJs Max and Sören w/ DJ Ivan Rodriguez
Monday 11/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Nasty Mondays Barcelona is Spain's biggest weekly party. Once every month the duo of Nasty Mondays DJs Max and Sören make...
Monday 11/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Come celebrate the launch of Emily Books, an independent ebookstore that specializes in mind-blowingly awesome, criminally underappreciated works of fiction and...
Monday 11/28 @ General Assembly
You've made something people want. Great - that's required before graduating to creating something people love. This course will provide guidelines...
Ongoing Events
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's that time of year when MoMA looks into its crystal ball and forecasts the upcoming film awards season. Always a...
Monday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Oh please, stop with the "so kinky!" reviews. Not by today's standards, it's not. See this show for a brilliant young...
Monday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the...
Monday 11/28 @ David H. Koch Theater
George Balanchine, who grew up in Russia, danced the role of the Prince in The Nutcracker in 1919 when he was...
Warby Parker Holiday Spectacle Bazaar
Monday 11/28 @ 45 Grand Street
Warby Parker, a socially conscious startup online prescription eyewear company known for its affordable fashion-forward frames, has turned a 4,000 square-foot...
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA kicks off the fall season with a blockbuster exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated abstract expressionist...
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Monday 11/28 @ The Hole
Acclaimed British artist Matthew Stone crosses the pond to present his first major solo show in America, a multimedia discovery of...
Monday 11/28 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Monday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Monday 11/28 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Artist Rashaad Newsome became interested in heraldry while visiting the castles of Europe. He has been fascinated ever since with the...
Monday 11/28 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Monday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Burning is an irreverantly entertaining look at three unconventional families —interracial, gay, and neo-Nazi — connected by the arts, funerals, sex, drugs,...
Monday 11/28 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Monday 11/28 @ New York Public Library
In celebration of its centennial, the New York Public Library is going into its archives and bringing out some items that...
Monday 11/28 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Monday 11/28 @ Roundabout Underground
A wonderfully inventive script from Andrew Hinderaker is hardly credible but none the less riveting with its dark humor, fascinating, unique...
Monday 11/28 @ 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...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Monday 11/28 @ Museum of Jewish Heritage
Established almost 6 years ago, Andy Goldsworthy's living memorial garden was the artist's first permanent commission in New York City. The...
Monday 11/28 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Monday 11/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Celebrating nine decades of Brooklyn film history and revealing how filmmakers since the silent era have been inspired by the County...
Monday 11/28 @ Lincoln Center
Franco Zeffirelli’s vivid Met production returns with Hei-Kyung Hong and Hibla Gerzmava sharing the role of Mimì and Dimitri Pittas as...
Monday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Clic Gallery
The artist K-NARF might exhibit his "photograffiti" installations in an old cinema, a functioning plant, or an abandoned garage. But he's...
Nitehawk presents The Skin I Live In
Monday 11/28 @ Nitehawk Cinema
Antonio Banderas stars as the eminent and obsessive plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Ledgard in The Skin I Live In, a delightfully...
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Monday 11/28 @ 59E59 Theaters
The annual gathering of anglophile theatre at 59 East 59th is a blast — like taking a trip London's West End,...
Monday 11/28 @ Huckleberry Bar
If you're feeling like a cozy evening with a drink and a movie in the neighborhood, Huckleberry bar's Monday Night Movies...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Monday 11/28 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
Monday 11/28 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Monday 11/28 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Monday 11/28 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Monday 11/28 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Monday 11/28 @ Broadhurst Theatre
This show makes you wonder if he looks in the mirror each day and realizes he is ruining everything for all...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Monday 11/28 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Monday 11/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 11/28 @ The Monocle Order
Members-only sunglasses retail site the Monocle Order is going brick-and-mortar for a month of the high holiday shopping season. Swing by...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Monday 11/28 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Monday 11/28 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Hebrew scholars and horror fans know a golem is "unshaped matter" which becomes a "creature of clay." The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Monday 11/28 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
For those desiring an unearthly Halloween thrill this year, try looking in your own backyard (or more likely your alley or...
Monday 11/28 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Monday 11/28 @ Barneys New York 660 Madison Avenue 5th Floor New York NY 10065
Move over Santa, there's a new head elf in town and she goes by "Gaga." With the help of her fashion...
Monday 11/28 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Monday 11/28 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Monday 11/28 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Monday 11/28 @ Classic Stage Company
Have things changed so much since Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1904? Flighty, ridiculous Lubov (Dianne Wiest) and her...
Monday 11/28 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
How to Make a Book with Steidl
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Welcome to the wonderful world of German book publisher Gerhard Steidl. A master at his craft, Steidl has published a hit...
Monday 11/28 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Monday 11/28 @ Westside Theatre
This show is based on Ilene Beckerman's simple, sweet book, spruced up by the incomparable Ephron sisters, and then interpreted by...
Monday 11/28 @ 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,...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Monday 11/28 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Monday 11/28 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's...
Monday 11/28 @ 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....
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Monday 11/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Monday 11/28 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Monday 11/28 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Monday 11/28 @ El Museo del Barrio
This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Monday 11/28 @ El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven...
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great...
Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the second in a series of installations that focus, one at a time, on masterworks of Hebrew manuscript illumination...
Monday 11/28 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,...
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that ushered in a new era of architectural anticipation and uncertainty,...
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by artist Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Monday 11/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from collections in...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Monday 11/28 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing on its and collector Russell Goings’s collections, presents a retrospective of Romare...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Monday 11/28 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
Monday 11/28 @ El Museo del Barrio
Get in on the game as we challenge you to follow the clues around NYC to satellite venues and events surrounding...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Monday 11/28 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media that exploded...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Met...
Monday 11/28 @ El Museo del Barrio
This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images....
Monday 11/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
In just over three short years, the pioneering Brooklyn dhol n’ brass party juggernaut Red Baraat have made a name for...
Monday 11/28 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the...
Monday 11/28 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Monday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Harun Farocki has developed an experimental documentary style, integrating his...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Monday 11/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Monday 11/28 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Monday 11/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the...
Monday 11/28 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection....
