Events on Friday, October 19

<i>Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination</i>

Film

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Friday 10/19 @ Museum of Science and Industry

Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is... 

Kacy Maddux

Art

Kacy Maddux

Friday 10/19 @ Gescheidle

Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,... 

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Friday 10/19 @ Smart Museum of Art

This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a... 

Terry Evans

Art: Photography

Terry Evans

Friday 10/19 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery

Terry Evans dazzled us with her long-term aerial photography project, Revealing Chicago, which illuminated the "urban prairie" landscape of our area... 

Joel Sternfeld: <i>American Prospects, The Seasons</i>

Art: Photography

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, The Seasons

Friday 10/19 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art

A pioneer of contemporary color photography, Joel Sternfeld uses large-format prints to continue Walker Evans' tradition of documenting the American landscape.... 

Theaster Gates

Art

Theaster Gates

Friday 10/19 @ Hyde Park Art Center

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Friday 10/19 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West... 

Christopher Patch: <i>Matinicus</i>

Art

Christopher Patch

Friday 10/19 @ moniquemeloche gallery

American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard... 

<i>Guns & Ammo</i>

Art

Guns & Ammo

Friday 10/19 @ Gallery 40000

Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal... 

Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: <i>Making Peace</i> & Ann Toebbe: <i>Stained Glass</i>

Art

Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass

Friday 10/19 @ threewalls

You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a... 

<i>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</i>

Art

Casting a Shadow

Friday 10/19 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University

Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through...