Events on Tuesday, November 18
DanceWorks Chicago: Dance Flight
Tuesday 11/18 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
It's probably not a stretch to assume you suffer from urban ADD, and cope by double- and triple-booking your evenings. For...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Darkroom
London-based group the Herbaliser have been crafting jazz-hop fusion tracks since the mid '90s. While these longtime Ninja Tune signees have...
Adam Shepard: Scratch Beginnings
Tuesday 11/18 @ 57th Street Books
A rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch — which trace the "futile" pursuit of the...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ The Hideout
It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Various locations
The Select Media Festival, produced by the nonprofit Public Media Institute, presents a week of experimental new-media shenanigans at Bridgeport's Co-Prosperity...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Tuesday 11/18 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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....
Tuesday 11/18 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
It takes more than a tutorial in Adobe Illustrator to make someone an artist. Extraordinary computer design and illustration rely on...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Music Box Theatre
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
Tuesday 11/18 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Tuesday 11/18 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour
Tuesday 11/18 @ Various locations
Some of us work out our issues in group therapy, benefiting from the wisdom of our peers. Those who can afford...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Tuesday 11/18 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
A bunch of children singing carols about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard sounds like the recipe for an episode of South...
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Tuesday 11/18 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Tuesday 11/18 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Tuesday 11/18 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/18 @ Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John...
