Events on Wednesday, October 29
Wednesday 10/29 @ Ferguson Lecture Hall at Columbia College Chicago
The bohemian values of the anti-establishment Beat Generation were well in line with the spiritual and anti-war ideals of Buddhist tradition....
Wednesday 10/29 @ The House Cafe
If the metal resurgence hasn't already jumped the shark, it's getting uncomfortably mainstream, and dyed-in-the-wool headbangers are retreating into increasingly esoteric...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Exploitation king Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! provides the perfect dose of campy pleasure: it's 83 minutes of exposed flesh,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully...
New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Wednesday 10/29 @ Viaduct Theater
With live-action doggy film Beverly Hills Chihuahua No. 1 at the box office for two weekends in a row, disgruntled moviegoers...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Zero for Conduct and Man's Castle
Wednesday 10/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
A revenge fantasy with an emphasis on the fantastical, Jean Vigo's comic-surrealist classic Zero for Conduct is the alpha point for...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Wednesday 10/29 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ Various locations
Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 10/29 @ 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...
