Events on Thursday, December 13
Thursday 12/13 @ Borders
Tom Brokaw refuses to retire, and the literary world isn't complaining. Since leaving NBC Nightly News — where he served as...
Thursday 12/13 @ Vella Cafe
Tonight's tribute to all things porcine and hops-based is a four-course study in outright indulgence. Created by the bacon lovers at...
Thursday 12/13 @ Double Door
In the years since Simon Reynolds coined the once-helpful term, "post-rock" has come to envelop nearly any band with rock instrumentation...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Unseen maps come to life with Connectivity, a solo show of visual and performance art by Sara Schnadt. As part of...
Thursday 12/13 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Thursday 12/13 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Thursday 12/13 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ Western Exhibitions
Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,...
Thursday 12/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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...
The 800 lb Gorilla in the Room
Thursday 12/13 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Shirley Mordine says she's "throwing down the glove" with this new festival, a collection of lucid, socially relevant work nestled deep...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
