All events on Monday October 06

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Film: Shorts
Canyon Cinema
Monday Oct 6 (7:30pm) @ MoMA
The late Bruce Conner was an art star who, like Pluto or Saul Bass, defied classification. A pioneer of collage filmmaking, Conner made towering pieces... View details »
Canyon Cinema
More Flavor: Discussion
An Evening with Chimurenga
Monday Oct 6 (7pm) @ The Kitchen
Free
Chimurenga more or less means "liberation struggle" in Zimbabwe's Shona language — it's also the name of a literary/arts/politics magazine based in Cape Town, founded... View details »
An Evening with Chimurenga
More Flavor: Festival
I Kiffe NY
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
I Kiffe NY
Music: Rock/Pop
Okkervil River
Monday Oct 6 (7pm) @ Webster Hall More times »
Giveaway
While Okkervil River songs usually start with a slowly strumming acoustic guitar, it's only a matter of time before the drums crash in, the bass... View details »
Okkervil River
Music: Rock/Pop
Department of Eagles
Monday Oct 6 (7:30pm) @ The Bell House
While Department of Eagles are led by Grizzly Bear guitarist/singer Dan Rossen, it would do the band a great disservice to drape the "side project"... View details »
Department of Eagles
More Flavor: Fashion
Thrift On! Swap Party
Monday Oct 6 (9pm–1am) @ Botanica Bar
Free
Fashionista DJ Shakey brings her quarterly thrift extravaganza back to Soho's Botanica Bar tonight, complete with previously owned prizes and an election for "thrift president."... View details »
Thrift On! Swap Party
Music: Jazz/Blues
Mingus Mondays
Monday Oct 6 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Jazz Standard More times »
The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus, cannot be contained on... View details »
Mingus Mondays

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More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Monday Oct 6 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Film
Battle in Seattle
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
Battle in Seattle
Art
William Pope.L
Monday Oct 6 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
Free
In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
William Pope.L
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film
Towelhead
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Monday Oct 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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Art
Street Art, Street Life
Monday Oct 6 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
Street Art, Street Life
Art
Other Options
Monday Oct 6 @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
Other Options
Performing Arts: Comedy
Celebrity Autobiography
Monday Oct 6 (7:30pm) @ The Triad Theater More times »
Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages and nuanced performances eliciting... View details »
Celebrity Autobiography
More Flavor: Competition
Monday Night Bingo
Monday Oct 6 (7:30–10pm) @ The Bowery Poetry Club More times »
Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words, instead of dentures and... View details »
Monday Night Bingo
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Monday Oct 6 @ MoMA More times »
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Film
Burn After Reading
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
Burn After Reading
Film
Rachel Getting Married
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
Rachel Getting Married
Film
Humboldt County
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
Humboldt County
Film
Ballast
Monday Oct 6 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
Ballast
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Monday Oct 6 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
We Burn, We Shiver
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fault Lines
Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Cherry Lane Theatre More times »
David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a couple of likable buddies... View details »
Fault Lines
Film: Documentary
Religulous
Monday Oct 6 @ Various locations More times »
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
Religulous
Film
Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
Monday Oct 6 @ Film Forum More times »
Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts sing — like a... View details »
Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
Film
Choke
Monday Oct 6 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
Choke
Music: Rock/Pop
Tegan and Sara
Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Terminal 5 More times »
These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging from garage rock and... View details »
Tegan and Sara
Art
The Outsiders
Monday Oct 6 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
Free
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
The Outsiders