Events on Friday, November 9
Friday 11/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Dubbed "the most important living art critic" by NYC alt-weekly The Village Voice, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl knows modern...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Logan Square Auditorium
At this point, describing an indie-rock band as "Velvet Underground-inspired" is a bit like calling Catholicism "Jesus-referencing." But the Warlocks are...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Heaven Gallery
Zine auteur and Missouri native Zach McLuckie collaborated with 12 other artists on a Xerox-and-cardboard installation inside the spacious Heaven Gallery....
Friday 11/ 9 @ SmartBar
Damian Lazarus' "get the party started" electro-house mixes are leading the pack in the international club circuit. Four years ago, the...
Myth of Autonomy: Vulnerable Bodies in Public Life
Friday 11/ 9 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Tonight's double feature of documentary films explores issues of accessibility and public understanding for people with disabilities. UK director Bente Milton's...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 9 @ Mini Dutch Gallery
Sculptor/painter Vivien Park makes an ambitious debut for her first solo show at Mini Dutch, the recently opened Logan Square apartment...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Gescheidle
Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Friday 11/ 9 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Friday 11/ 9 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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,...
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, The Seasons
Friday 11/ 9 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
A pioneer of contemporary color photography, Joel Sternfeld uses large-format prints to continue Walker Evans' tradition of documenting the American landscape....
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
