Events on Wednesday, October 24

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Art

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Wednesday 10/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial... 

Christopher Patch: <i>Matinicus</i>

Art

Christopher Patch

Wednesday 10/24 @ moniquemeloche gallery

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

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Wednesday 10/24 @ 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... 

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

Wednesday 10/24 @ threewalls

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

Terry Evans

Art: Photography

Terry Evans

Wednesday 10/24 @ 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... 

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

Film

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Wednesday 10/24 @ 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

Wednesday 10/24 @ Gescheidle

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

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Wednesday 10/24 @ 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... 

<i>The Crucible</i>

Theatre

The Crucible

Wednesday 10/24 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

Wednesday 10/24 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,... 

<i>Guns & Ammo</i>

Art

Guns & Ammo

Wednesday 10/24 @ Gallery 40000

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

Theaster Gates

Art

Theaster Gates

Wednesday 10/24 @ Hyde Park Art Center

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

Art

Casting a Shadow

Wednesday 10/24 @ 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...