Events on Thursday, October 9
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Riviera Theatre
These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Film Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago
As part of Columbia College Chicago's two-month celebration of Beat culture, the Museum of Contemporary Photography screens the 30-minute, black-and-white film...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Vic Theatre
Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene feature an ever-rotating cast of musicians (Leslie Feist was once a member), many hand-plucked from Toronto's...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Western Exhibitions
Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Don't let the name fool you. At 96, Louise Bourgeois is still the diametric opposite of middle-class politesse and mass-produced good...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Suburban
The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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....
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Millennium Park
To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want...
Thursday 10/ 9 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black...
