Events on Friday, November 16
University of Chicago Library Book Sale
Friday 11/16 @ University of Chicago - Smart Musuem of Art
With over 7,000 duplicate and discarded volumes of obscure scholarly hardcovers, contemporary paperbacks, ten-pound academic tomes, and vintage textbooks, the semi-annual...
Friday 11/16 @ SmartBar
Shining, euphoric, and playful, the Juan Maclean's 2005 debut album, Less than Human, is one part Buddha-like spiritual bliss, the other...
Chicago (1927) w/ David Drazin
Friday 11/16 @ Film Studies Center, University of Chicago
In a rare screening of this 35mm print (courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive), local jazz pianist and silent-film...
Juliette & the Licks w/ Scissors For Lefty and Suffrajett
Friday 11/16 @ Reggies Rock Club
Sure, the "Juliette" is Juliette Lewis of Hollywood fame, but don't be fooled — this band is no novelty act. Unlike...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Political documentaries aren't entertaining unless controversy or conspiracy is involved, and director Robert Stone's Oswald's Ghost has both in spades. Looking...
Friday 11/16 @ 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,...
Friday 11/16 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Friday 11/16 @ Music Box Theatre
As Thanksgiving draws near, Chicagoans' thoughts turn to drumsticks, punkin' pie, and that inevitable travel-plan disaster. In Planes, Trains and Automobiles,...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Friday 11/16 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Lucky Plush Productions: Cinderbox 18
Friday 11/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Julia Rhoads — Chicago's eight-year queen of clean, fluid choreography with surreal and comic touches — dives headfirst into uncharted waters...
Friday 11/16 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Friday 11/16 @ Gallery 40000
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
The Wonder-Cabinet Of Dr. Wunderkammer
Friday 11/16 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
The most archly purple promo in years sets this show up as a curio cabinet of rare and exotic dances "of...
Friday 11/16 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Friday 11/16 @ 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
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Friday 11/16 @ Gallery 2 and project space
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2007 fall graduates display their thesis projects in all types of media: painting,...
Friday 11/16 @ 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
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
Friday 11/16 @ 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...
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
