Events on Monday, February 6

<em>I ❤ BOMB</em>

Special Event

I ❤ BOMB

Monday 2/ 6 @ powerHouse Arena

BOMB Magazine reminds us that sometimes love can, in fact, be free. With a line-up of artists including Brooklyn Poet Laureate... 

Sewing Level II

Workshop/Class

Sewing Level II

Monday 2/ 6 @ 3rd Ward

  Take your basic sewing know-how to the next level.  In this class you'll learn how to create your own a-line... 

Bjork at New York Hall of Science

Music: Experimental

Bjork at New York Hall of Science

Monday 2/ 6 @ Live Nation

Biophilia live show and education series. In partnership with The Creators Project and New York Hall of Science.

Circuits & Electronics 2: DIY Synthesizers

Workshop/Class

Circuits & Electronics 2: DIY Synthesizers

Monday 2/ 6 @ 3rd Ward

 This 4-session intensive course assumes a beginning level of electronics knowledge. It is designed to be friendly to those who are... 

Lost Wax Casting

Workshop/Class

Lost Wax Casting

Monday 2/ 6 @ 3rd Ward

 Lost Wax Casting is the process in which an object, preferably wax, is turned into a metal form. The process is... 

Jeremy Schonfeld

Music

Jeremy Schonfeld

Monday 2/ 6 @ Joe's Pub

"...a world-class record that defies any expectations listener’s may have going into the album." -Guitar International "....Highly recommended for music... 

Organic Sculpture Techniques

Workshop/Class

Organic Sculpture Techniques

Monday 2/ 6 @ 3rd Ward

 We'll cover two practices utilizing the strange bounties of the sea. First, learn the organic, simple and amazing seaweed based mould... 

Dolce Suono Ensemble

Music

Dolce Suono Ensemble

Monday 2/ 6 @ Symphony Space

Dolce Suono Ensemble, the young, dynamic chamber music group from Philadelphia, a "stunning ensemble" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), makes its New York... 

The Warsaw Village Band performs Andy Teirstein's new opera "A Blessing on the Moon"

Music: Folk

The Warsaw Village Band performs Andy Teirstein's new opera "A Blessing on the Moon"

Monday 2/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

"A Blessing on the Moon" is a new opera combining Andy Teirstein's fiery, folk-infused new music with the rhythms and "white... 

The Worm in the Big Apple: Presented by Theatre of the Oppressed and Housing Works 13 Theatre Troupe

Theatre: Benefit

The Worm in the Big Apple: Presented by Theatre of the Oppressed and Housing Works 13 Theatre Troupe

Monday 2/ 6 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and Housing Works present 13 Theatre Troupe in The Worm in the Big Apple The Worm... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Brooklyn Close-Up</em>

Film: Festival

Brooklyn Close-Up

Monday 2/ 6 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Celebrating nine decades of Brooklyn film history and revealing how filmmakers since the silent era have been inspired by the County... 

NURTUREart presents Svetlana Mircheva:<em> Possible Exhibitions</em>

Art: Sculpture

Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions

Monday 2/ 6 @ NURTUREart Gallery

For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an... 

<em>A Separation</em>

Film

A Separation

Monday 2/ 6 @ Film Forum

Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that... 

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Art: Multimedia

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

ST[love]RY

Fashion/Style: Shopping

ST[love]RY

Monday 2/ 6 @ STORY

STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,... 

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Art: Video

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>We Need to Talk About Kevin</em>

Film: Independent

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Monday 2/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

Adapted from Lionel Shirver's best-selling novel, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin places us inside the head... 

<em>Freud's Last Session</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Freud's Last Session

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Pina</em>

Film: Documentary

Pina

Monday 2/ 6 @ IFC Center

Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems... 

<em>Memphis</em>

Theatre: Musical

Memphis

Monday 2/ 6 @ Shubert Theatre (225 W 44th St)

MEMPHIS is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready... 

The New Group presents the world premiere of <em>Russian Transport</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Russian Transport

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row

Like New Group's previous Burning, Russian Transport is another seriocomic, well-written depiction of a dysfunctional family perfomed by a cast that is belivable... 

<em>White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain</em>

Art: Sculpture

White Gold

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Frick Collection

White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain will feature approximately seventy of Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131... 

New York Hall of Science presents Bjork: <em>Biophilia</em>

Music: Experimental

Bjork: Biophilia

Monday 2/ 6 @ New York Hall of Science

As artists go, few have lived in their element as thoroughly as Björk. Performing since she was a child, the Icelandic... 

<em>How I Learned To Drive</em>

Theatre: Broadway

How I Learned To Drive

Monday 2/ 6 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

How I learned To Drive is not a feel-good story, a tender tale of the loss of teen innocence. It is... 

<em>Kill List</em>

Film: Independent

Kill List

Monday 2/ 6 @ IFC Center

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley retains his spot on our watch list with his meaty Down Terrace follow-up, Kill List. Co-written with... 

<em>The Fantasticks</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

The Fantasticks

Monday 2/ 6 @ Jerry Orbach Theater

In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first... 

Joaqu&iacute;n Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Fashion/Style

Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Monday 2/ 6 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute

Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on... 

<em>Shame</em>

Film: Independent

Shame

Monday 2/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine

Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Avenue Q

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Punchdrunk's <em>Sleep No More</em>

Cultural Hybrid

Punchdrunk's Sleep No More

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Random Access Theatre presents <em>Rope</em>

Theatre: Revival

Rope

Monday 2/ 6 @ Access Theater

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope is best remembered as the first of two movies handsome Farley Granger made with the director, and for being filmed... 

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

Art

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Clifford Owens: Anthology</em>

Art: Performance

Clifford Owens: Anthology

Monday 2/ 6 @ MoMA PS1

Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first... 

<em>Carnage</em>

Film

Carnage

Monday 2/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

Roman Polanski doesn't make bad films. He may be known for his bad decisions off set, but on set, he remains... 

<em>The Tree of Life</em>

Film

The Tree of Life

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Mamma Mia!</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Mamma Mia!

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Palace Theatre

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York.... 

NYC Winter Restaurant Week

Food/Wine

Restaurant Week

Monday 2/ 6 @ Various Locations

Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on... 

Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park

Get Social

Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park

Monday 2/ 6 @ Openhouse Gallery

Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass... 

Bertolt Brecht's <em>Galileo</em>

Theatre: Revival

Galileo

Monday 2/ 6 @ Classic Stage Company

Starting with the playwright, everyone is worked up in Galileo. The Church and Galileo's royal patrons don't like his "turning around... 

<em>The Descendants</em>

Film

The Descendants

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Weegee: <em>Murder Is My Business</em>

Art: Photography

Weegee: Murder Is My Business

Monday 2/ 6 @ International Center of Photography

Legendary photojournalist and newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee has made his fame capturing gruesome murder scenes and high-profile... 

<em>Pariah</em>

Film

Pariah

Monday 2/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine

Winner of the Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Pariah is a gritty and heartfelt coming-of-age drama starring talented... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>007_Urban_Songline</em>

Art: Installation

007_Urban_Songline

Monday 2/ 6 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture

To the naked eye, Allard van Hoorn's 007_Urban_Songline looks like a room filled with strings; a child-like maze for visitors to... 

HERE presents Culturemart 2012

Theatre: Festival

Culturemart 2012

Monday 2/ 6 @ HERE Arts Center

A winter highlight, Culturemart both previews and celebrates works-in-progress from HARP, HERE's artist residency program. The lineup includes five works by... 

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Art: Painting & Drawing

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Other Desert Cities</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Other Desert Cities

Monday 2/ 6 @ Booth Theatre

Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of... 

<em>Seminar</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Seminar

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Golden Theatre

Seminar, the witty and provocative new comedy, has hit Broadway with great success and critical acclaim. The world premiere of this... 

Rirkrit Tiravanija:<em>&nbsp;Untitled (Free/Still)</em>

Art: Happening

Untitled (Free/Still)

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Shatner's World</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Shatner's World

Monday 2/ 6 @ Music Box Theatre

If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly... 

<em>Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer</em>

Art: Video

Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Melancholia</em>

Film

Melancholia

Monday 2/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear... 

<em>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia</em>

Film: Independent

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Monday 2/ 6 @ Cinema Village

Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing... 

<em>Book of Mormon</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Book of Mormon

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Godspell</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Godspell

Monday 2/ 6 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Jesus, what a voice! Hunter Parrish's Jesus charms, amuses, and seduces all. He glorifies Stephen Schwartz's divine score (which is far... 

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Art: Multimedia

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Monday 2/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:... 

Introduction to Developing Entrepreneurial Ideas

Workshop/Class

Introduction to Developing Entrepreneurial Ideas

Monday 2/ 6 @ General Assembly

 Do you have an idea but you are not sure if you can make a business out of it, or have... 

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Art

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China’s modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to... 

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Art

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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)... 

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Art: Multimedia

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Monday 2/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian... 

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Art

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Kitchen

Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm   This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural... 

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Art

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,... 

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Art

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Monday 2/ 6 @ El Museo del Barrio

Testimonios examines potent works by non-traditionally trained makers. This exhibition celebrates and witnesses mankind’s myriad artistic manifestations by highlighting works that... 

A Promise is Cloud

Art

A Promise is Cloud

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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.... 

Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda

Art: Video

Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL  Instructor Janet Cook

Workshop/Class: Art

FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook

Monday 2/ 6 @ National Academy Museum

This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either... 

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Art

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Referred to during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) remains to this day America's best-known cabinetmaker. This... 

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Art

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s... 

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Art

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Art: Photography

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Jewish Museum

The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city... 

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

Art

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"

Art: Installation

Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"

Monday 2/ 6 @ Public Art Fund

Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It... 

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

Art: Sculpture

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology

Art

Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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,... 

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Art

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Monday 2/ 6 @ El Museo del Barrio

This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s... 

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Art

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Art

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Monday 2/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great... 

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Art: Installation

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Monday 2/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum

 Sarah Sze: Infinte line is the first exhibition to focus specifically on her process. It is an exploration of line across... 

The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India

Art

The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India

Monday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art

Art: Group Show

From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art

Monday 2/ 6 @ National Academy Museum

The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...