Events on Wednesday, November 21
Green City Market Chef Demonstration
Wednesday 11/21 @ Green City Winter Market
Named one of the top ten farmer's markets in the country by culinary legend Alice Waters, the Green City Market is...
Wednesday 11/21 @ SmartBar
Do house music and Christianity have something in common? For Green Velvet (Curtis Jones), they do; this DJ favors both the...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Max Palevsky Cinema
The Doc Films student society hosts an Akira Kurosawa take on Shakespeare as part of its long-running screening series. A modern...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Double Door
The Pipettes' road to semi-stardom started as a nostalgia trip: a purely retro exercise, in which three female singers and their...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Wednesday 11/21 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Western Exhibitions
Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ moniquemeloche gallery
American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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
Wednesday 11/21 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Director Noah Baumbach's breakthrough film, The Squid and the Whale, featured Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels as a squabbling Brooklyn couple...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
