Events on Tuesday, November 13
Tuesday 11/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Curators James Rondeau and Douglas Druick convene to speak about their curatorial vision for an exhibition focusing on Jasper Johns' use...
Tuesday 11/13 @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom
MacArthur fellow Peter Cole is world-renowned for his translations of medieval Hebrew poets, particularly the work of Shmuel HaNagid — a...
Ongoing Events
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Tuesday 11/13 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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,...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Tuesday 11/13 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Tuesday 11/13 @ Music Box Theatre
Twenty-one years after the release of the last Clash album, director Julien Temple's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten examines the...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Tuesday 11/13 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/13 @ Music Box Theatre
The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult...
Tuesday 11/13 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Tuesday 11/13 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Tuesday 11/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck...
Tuesday 11/13 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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
Tuesday 11/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There...
