Events on Wednesday, October 22
Wednesday 10/22 @ 57th Street Books
Although it's no longer recognized as a medical disorder, hysteria was once widely diagnosed in women who displayed a multitude of...
Wednesday 10/22 @ The Empty Bottle
Brooklyn dream-pop outfit Asobi Seksu (colloquial Japanese for "playful sex") make a brand of shoegaze that's more reminiscent of the Verve...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Doc Films
Ingmar Bergman cemented his rep as the master of Nordic miserablism with existential chin-strokers like Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, so...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Riviera Theatre
TV on the Radio have returned from Cookie Mountain, and they brought back one of the best albums of the year....
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Wednesday 10/22 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to...
Wednesday 10/22 @ threewalls
With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet...
Chicago International Film Festival
Wednesday 10/22 @ Various locations
Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Should anyone need criteria by which to measure the success of emerging artists, one could investigate whether they had their first...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Wednesday 10/22 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Mary's Attic
What do you get when you mix a schlock-horror cinema classic with a couple of cheesy, soft-rock icons? You get Carpenters...
Wednesday 10/22 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/22 @ 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...
