Events on Wednesday, November 28
Wednesday 11/28 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Tribune reporter James Janega discusses the thrills and dangers of reporting from a war zone. As an embedded journalist in Baghdad...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Doc Films
Throne of Blood (aka Kumonosu-jô, which literally means "Spider Web Castle") is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set in medieval...
Wednesday 11/28 @ CPL Blackstone Branch
They say the Internet killed the art of joke-telling, but tonight's Jokes and Java program should prove 'em wrong. Local standups,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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,...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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,...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
David Lynch is one of modern cinema's true artists, if also one of its most infuriating. This new documentary — directed...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
