Events on Friday, October 17
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Notwist
- @ Logan Square Auditorium
- After nearly five years of silence, everyone's favorite German-bred electro-acoustic outfit makes its way back to America. On this year's The... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Deerhoof
- @ Metro
- Leave it to heady avant-garde rockers Deerhoof to leak sheet music to build hype for an upcoming album. Rather than go... View details »
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- k.d. lang
- @ The Chicago Theatre
- What began as k.d. lang's controversial, if slightly campy, romp through country music's hallowed halls has since seen the singer appropriate... 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
- A Secret
- @ Music Box Theatre
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is a Holocaust movie that is not really... View details »
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- Amy Mayfield
- @ threewalls
- With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet... 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/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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- Doug Smithenry
- @ Packer Schopf Gallery
- In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls... 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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- Music: Experimental
- The Residents
- @ Lakeshore Theater
- Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in... View details »
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- New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Artist collaborative New Catalogue often operates like a stock-photo agency or a design company in order to explore fictional imagery and... View details »
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- Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
- @ Plumbers Hall
- A neighborhood operation founded 19 years ago, the Around the Coyote Festival has grown into a grander-scale platform for emerging artists.... 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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- 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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- 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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- Regin Igloria
- @ Zg Gallery
- With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Tamar Halpern
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- Should anyone need criteria by which to measure the success of emerging artists, one could investigate whether they had their first... View details »
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- Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
- @ Monique Meloche
- The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past... 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: 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 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Josh Azzarella
- @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
- Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar.... 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Cie Heddy Maalem
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- First performed in 2004, this adaptation of Rite of Spring is an expressionist dance-poem of modern barbarism. It's "simple" in the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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