All events on Monday June 23
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- Dwele
- Monday June 23 (9pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Giveaway
- It's been a good year for Detroit-till-death crooner/producer Dwele. The neo-soul singer appeared on chart-topping singles from both Kanye ("Flashing Lights") and Common ("The People"),... View details »
- Reading
- Toby Barlow
- Monday June 23 (7pm) @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
- Free
- Toby Barlow revives both supernatural mythology and epic poetry in his werewolf saga Sharp Teeth. The story, set in modern-day LA, has all the trappings... View details »
- Film
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Monday June 23 (5pm) @ Bryant Park
- Free
- Everybody needs someone to love — even man-made monsters who wreak havoc upon a cold, unforgiving world. In Bride of Frankenstein (1935), director James Whale's... View details »
- Film
- 1969 Experimental Films
- Monday June 23 (7pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- Giveaway
- Sans lab coats or control groups, tonight's experimental bill offers a glimpse of film's creative frontier at a particularly exploratory moment in history. Some works... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday June 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Monday June 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Film
- The Fall
- Monday June 23 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Monday June 23 @ IFC Center More times »
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Art
- Darina Karpov
- Monday June 23 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
- Free
- Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Monday June 23 @ IFC Center More times »
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Monday June 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
- Film
- Stuck
- Monday June 23 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode rather than a full-length... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Monday June 23 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday June 23 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Monday June 23 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Film
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Monday June 23 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
- Film
- Beauty in Trouble
- Monday June 23 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather, and her husband has... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- Monday June 23 (8pm) @ DR2 Theatre More times »
- Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into undersized apartments, and move... View details »
- Film
- Brick Lane
- Monday June 23 @ Various locations More times »
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Monday June 23 @ IFC Center More times »
- Giveaway
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Monday June 23 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants start writing and shooting... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- Monday June 23 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free opening-night bash at which... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stitching
- Monday June 23 (7pm) @ Wild Project More times »
- On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the myriad choices they must... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- BASH'd
- Monday June 23 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
- The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
- Film
- Asian Film Festival
- Monday June 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang makes... View details »
- Art: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- Monday June 23 (11am–7pm) @ Moeller Snow Gallery More times »
- Free
- Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be real-life monsters, but even... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Monday June 23 @ Film Forum More times »
- Giveaway
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
- Film
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Monday June 23 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Let's face it: in the US cultural landscape, aesthetic value and social conscience coexist in cinema about as easily as Church and State do —... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Monday June 23 @ Dixon Place More times »
- Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
- Film
- Quid Pro Quo
- Monday June 23 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when he was eight. When... View details »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Monday June 23 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
- Art
- What My Dad Gave Me
- Monday June 23 @ Rockefeller Center More times »
- Free
- In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Monday June 23 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
