Events on Friday, December 7
Friday 12/ 7 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel The Brothers Karamazov is a heady brew of depravity, justice, and redemption. A moving indictment of the...
Friday 12/ 7 @ FitzGerald's
Detroit-raised and Motown-hazed soul singer Bettye LaVette didn't get much notice until her 2005 "comeback" album, I've Got My Own Hell...
Friday 12/ 7 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Playwright and provocateur Edward Albee has been delighting, confusing, and generally pissing off audiences and critics for over 50 years. By...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Metro
Though their name suggests a kinship with the iron curtain, Cold War Kids actually hail from behind Cali's Orange curtain. Complicating...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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...
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
