Events on Monday, November 7
Monday 11/ 7 @ Southpaw
From small businesses to major cities to Wall Street, lately everyone's trying to occupy something. In a strange act of parallel...
Monday 11/ 7 @ The Mercury Lounge
Remember when Kings of Leon were, well, new, exciting and good? The Features still are. The first signees to Kings of...
Transform America Moving Minds Benefit Concert
Monday 11/ 7 @ Terminal 5
Nonprofit activist org Transform America hosts tonight's benefit concert, raising funds to sustain its community-based human rights work. Quick-witted MC Lupe...
Intermediate Watercolors - New Lower Price!
Monday 11/ 7 @ 3rd Ward
Expand on your watercoloring techniques and produce super sized images while exploring all of the mediums components! In this second level...
Monday 11/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Media Circus returns on November 7th with three diverse speakers—Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine; noted philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, a professor...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Tulsa-born and New Orleans-raised, indie artist AM brings a heady brew of twanging Americana, twinkling Anglified folk-rock-pop, caressing Philly soul and...
The Tao of Broadway: Aaron Lazar
Monday 11/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Aaron Lazar has appeared in 7 Broadway shows originating roles in A Tale of Two Cities, the world premiere of Impressionism...
Daniel Breaker with Condola Rashad
Monday 11/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Tony nominated actor Daniel Breaker (Shrek, Passing Strange) teams up with Condola Rashad (Ruined, Stick Fly) for a night of musical...
Occupy: Presented by n+1 and Housing Works
Monday 11/ 7 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A discussion of the Occupy movement with activists and writers, moderated by n+1 editor Keith Gessen.
Monday 11/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) was a born superstar, exhibiting his cool as a child with his sultry walk and unique jargon...
Monday 11/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
ALASH are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What...
Ongoing Events
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 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 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 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 11/ 7 @ 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/ 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 11/ 7 @ IFC Center
It's party time for documentary fans, as DOC NYC returns with a program sweeter and saltier than the last. Showcasing over...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
Expose your taste buds to the flavors of Greenwich Village in this two-hour walking tour. Break your parents' rules and start...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 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...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Second Stage Theatre
World War I may not strike you as perfect fodder for a musical, but the current crop of plays indicates otherwise:...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Artist Rashaad Newsome became interested in heraldry while visiting the castles of Europe. He has been fascinated ever since with the...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Blue Note
At 70, jazz piano legend Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. Quite the opposite, in fact: he's celebrating his...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 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 11/ 7 @ 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/ 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 11/ 7 @ Various locations
Whether due to the will of art historian RoseLee Goldberg or the attention given the naked people at MoMA last year,...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Various locations in the Bronx
Many of us (your editor included) don't get up to the Bronx nearly as much as we should — particularly if we...
Monday 11/ 7 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 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 11/ 7 @ Ars Nova Theater
During the next four weeks Ars Nova is hosting its own industrious and creative ant colony for ANT Fest 2011. Thirty...
Monday 11/ 7 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Monday 11/ 7 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Monday 11/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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....
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Monday 11/ 7 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition focuses more specifically on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," focusing on artists of various generations and their...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Monday 11/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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....
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Monday 11/ 7 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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....
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 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....
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Toshi Reagon: Lines Part of the Joe’s Pub New York Voices series
Monday 11/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Toshi Reagon has been described as "a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana--from folk...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
White Light Festival: Duality of Light
Monday 11/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
One at a time, in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall, visitors enter a long, dark corridor of sound, stepping uncertainly...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days
Monday 11/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa conceived Sum of Days as an environmental and participatory sound installation—a monumental, voluminous construction made of soft,...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Monday 11/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In India, the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms—benign, maternal, empowering, and...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Monday 11/ 7 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Monday 11/ 7 @ 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...
