Events on Friday, November 30

Robert Pollard w/ Death of Fashion and the Party Downers

Music

Robert Pollard

Friday 11/30 @ Metro

After the electrifying end of Guided by Voices in 2004, critics and fans alike wondered with bated breath whether it was... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth</i>

Art

Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth

Friday 11/30 @ Green Lantern

Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original... 

DEPART-ment

Fashion/Style: Shopping

DEPART-ment

Friday 11/30 @ AV-aerie

Everyone knows how spirit-crushing department stores can be around Christmas. When one considers how much overseas-crafted junk you've bought from underpaid... 

Christkindlmarket

City Gems

Christkindlmarket

Friday 11/30 @ Daley Plaza

Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter... 

<I>Meanwhile in Baghdad…</I>

Art

Meanwhile in Baghdad…

Friday 11/30 @ The Renaissance Society

How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —... 

<i>Margot at the Wedding</i>

Film

Margot at the Wedding

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Andrea Myers

Art

Andrea Myers

Friday 11/30 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery

Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use... 

<i>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</i>

Art

Casting a Shadow

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Art

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Friday 11/30 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... 

<i>Mr. Fluxus</i>

Performing Arts

Mr. Fluxus

Friday 11/30 @ 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

Art

SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition

Friday 11/30 @ 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

Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

John Parot: <i>Biological Exuberance</i>

Art

John Parot

Friday 11/30 @ Western Exhibitions

Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

Friday 11/30 @ 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,... 

<i>Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination</i>

Film

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

David Coyle: <i>New Work</i>

Art

David Coyle

Friday 11/30 @ Gallery 40000

With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000.... 

Crispin Hellion Glover: <i>Big Slide Show</i> and <i>It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.</i>

Film

It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Friday 11/30 @ Music Box Theatre

Crispin Glover has earned his status as one of Hollywood's preeminent weirdos. Reducing his cult appeal to simple eccentricity is unfair,... 

Audrey Niffenegger: <i>Elegy for Isabella Blow</i>

Art

Audrey Niffenegger

Friday 11/30 @ Printworks Gallery

British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear... 

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Cody Hudson

Art

Cody Hudson

Friday 11/30 @ 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...