Events on Thursday, November 6
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum
Is donning fake fur more than just a fashion statement? Is buying fair-trade or non-sweatshop clothing a political act? Answer: it...
The Homosexuals w/ Plastic Crimewave Sound
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Hideout
If the Homosexuals were on a bill with the Kinks during the British Invasion, they may have turned a few heads...
Michael Greenberg: Hurry Down Sunshine
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Book Cellar
The best memoirs about mental illness — like William Styron's Darkness Visible or Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted — transcend the limitations...
Neil Halstead w/ Kevin Tihista
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Schubas
Slowdive was the perfect name for a band so singularly focused on endless, gliding melodies. Lumped in with the shoegazers like...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Bottom Lounge
The soulful past comes to party when the Detroit Cobras hit the stage. Led by sultry singer Rachel Nagy, the band...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Roots & Culture
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ threewalls
With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Sure, many people find the holidays depressing, but at least you're not a functionally alcoholic Dublin undertaker whose estranged daughter shows...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 6 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Fans of Japanese shock cinema are familiar with the genre's violent depravity, having exported extreme works such as Battle Royale, Suicide...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Various locations
Chicago's leading jazz-series curators, including the minds behind the Hideout, Elastic Arts, and the Hungry Brain, come together to present the...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
