Events on Friday, December 14
Friday 12/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Back by popular demand, Antonio Gaudí returns to the
Friday 12/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ubiquitous Swiss typeface, Helvetica explores how the popular font came to be the standard for...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Links Hall
Assessing dance as a conduit for desire, Asimina Chremos digs into one of ballet's most transcendent moments: Dame Margot Fonteyn's career...
Friday 12/14 @ 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
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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...
Thrill Jockey 15th Anniversary Celebration
Friday 12/14 @ Logan Square Auditorium
After doing time at a major label — where the corporate bottom line trumped all else — talent scout and music...
Friday 12/14 @ 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
Friday 12/14 @ 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 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use...
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
The 800 lb Gorilla in the Room
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Friday 12/14 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Friday 12/14 @ Music Box Theatre
You've got to hand it to the guy who brought both Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Beetle Juice to the big screen...
Friday 12/14 @ Western Exhibitions
Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,...
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
Friday 12/14 @ 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...
