Events on Thursday, November 8
Labor & Community: Reflecting and Organizing in Rogers Park
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Mess Hall
The gorgeously filmed documentary Five Factories: Workers Control in Venezuela, directed by Berlin-based writer/political activist Dario Azzellini and visual artist Oliver...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Metro
Battles' brand of spastic post-rock takes as much from '70s prog and post-punk as it does from cartoon soundtracks and drone...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Lakeshore Theater
The fourth installment of the Million Tongues Festival begins tonight with what might be its most exciting and broadly appealing offering....
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Genesee Theatre
If you've ever seen Lewis Black, you know the man is pissed. And he's pissed about almost everything: Starbucks, brain-dead politicians,...
Ongoing Events
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Double Door
Led by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, punk-rock pioneers Meat Puppets have enjoyed a decades-long run with roots in seminal indie...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Thursday 11/ 8 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Gescheidle
Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Gallery 40000
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
