Events on Thursday, November 1
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Vonzweck
Gallerist and artist Philip von Zweck's current solo show with old classmate Frank Pollard just might take you into the spine-tingling...
Tim Kinsella w/ Cryptacize and Box of Baby Birds
Thursday 11/ 1 @ The Empty Bottle
Tim Kinsella has changed a lot in the 12 years since Cap'n Jazz's first (and only) record inspired a generation of...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
When the state of California banned smoking in bars and restaurants in 1998, no one was surprised — California, after all,...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Logan Square Auditorium
When playing live, Icelandic electro-pop experimentalists Múm (pronounced "moom") aren't afraid to mix things up a bit. The shuffling, seven-piece team...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Vic Theatre
Dragging stand-up out of the clubs and onto the stage, the Comedians of Comedy tour promises "all the funny without the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Gallery 40000
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Thursday 11/ 1 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ The Neo-Futurarium
In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ Gescheidle
Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,...
Thursday 11/ 1 @ 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...
