Events on Tuesday, November 25
Tuesday 11/25 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
The AIC may be best-known for its comprehensive collection of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings, but they haven't been on view since...
Tuesday 11/25 @ Schubas
The members of Florida-cum-Baltimore-based band Wilderness have been working together for 11 years, and it shows in the maturity of their...
Tuesday 11/25 @ The Empty Bottle
Born in the Canary Islands and now residing in Barcelona, Pablo Díaz-Reixa (aka El Guincho) draws as much from the beach...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Wilmette Theatre
Fans of coming-of-age stories like Catcher in the Rye and The Graduate should enjoy new indie film Humboldt County, the tale...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Tuesday 11/25 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Any fantasy movie starring David Bowie is bound to be genius. This one comes to us from the imagination of Jim...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Before going on to direct some of the greatest films of all time, including Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Donald Young Gallery
In Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's current exhibition, dusty cultural icons like the atomic bomb and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome are reborn as sleek...
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the...
