Events on Friday, October 10
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Silver Jews
- @ Metro
- David Berman's Silver Jews were once dismissed as a Pavement side project. But really, Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich's presence in... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Stereolab
- @ Vic Theatre
- Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs,... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
- @ Western Exhibitions
- Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western... View details »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- @ The Newberry Library
- The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- @ The Second City e.t.c.
- From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Wild Combination
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Cellist/composer/producer Arthur Russell embodied the cross-pollinating spirit of late-'70s New York, entertaining the avant-garde art world with his blissed-out dance jams.... View details »
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- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of... View details »
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- Art of Democracy
- @ Loyola University Museum of Art
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- @ City Gallery
- Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views.... View details »
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- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- @ The Suburban
- The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in... View details »
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- Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
- @ Normal Projects
- Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by... View details »
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- Ian Pedigo
- @ 65GRAND
- Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain... View details »
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- Rodney Graham
- @ Donald Young Gallery
- Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full... View details »
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- Film
- The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a... View details »
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- Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
- @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- @ TimeLine Theatre
- Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican... View details »
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- WIRED NextFest
- @ Millennium Park
- To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Mike Daisey
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Mike Daisey takes the stage looking like your schlubby, good-natured cousin and armed only with a glass of water and a... View details »
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- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea... View details »
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- Displacement
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Sarcastic Squad
- @ The Playground Theater
- The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians... View details »
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- Deceptive Design
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer... View details »
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- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- @ Golden
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan... View details »
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- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art... View details »
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- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details »
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- Conrad Freiburg
- @ Linda Warren Gallery
- Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hubbard Street Dance
- @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- Released, weighted dancing, written in boldface and arranged into giant shapes, reigns as the style of the moment, yet Toru Shimazaki... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
- @ Graham Foundation
- Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a... View details »
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- Angles in America
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the... View details »
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- The Dark Knight
- @ Navy Pier
- The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic... View details »
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- Music: Festival
- Baltimore Round Robin Tour
- @ Epiphany
- Inimitable art rocker Dan Deacon has put together a two-night event of epic proportions, towing a grip of Baltimore bands around... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work... View details »
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- Mark Porter
- @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
- Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery... View details »
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- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
- Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of... View details »
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- Night of the Living Artist
- @ Chicago Art Department
- Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- @ Chicago History Museum
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... View details »
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- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- @ Music Box Theatre
- In what is arguably his best performance to date, Keanu Reeves stars as Ted Logan, a high-school slacker and founding member... View details »
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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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