Events on Friday, November 7
Win McCormack: You Don't Know Me
Friday 11/ 7 @ Book Cellar
Republicans like to consider themselves the guardians of traditional "family values." However, much to the delight of Daily Show staffers, the...
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears w/ the XYZ Affair
Friday 11/ 7 @ Beat Kitchen
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears recall the Kinks and XTC, dipped in a bit of Queen-style bravado. Which is all...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Gathering artists from Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, and Cuba, New Print Politik examines the intersection of art and political action as these...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Schubas
While up to 19 members have been known to circulate in and out of the group, Shara Worden remains the driving...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Metro
Austin duo Ghostland Observatory fuse sprawling, futuristic electro with Rapture-style spastic rock, describing their sound as "a robot making love to...
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Friday 11/ 7 @ The Hideout
The recent overload of whiskey-soaked, cigarette-stained folkies notwithstanding, there's still something to be said for the virtues of darkly atmospheric Americana....
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 7 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Lakeshore Theater
The indie-rock and indie-comedy scenes draw ever closer together, as DIY comedians like Stella, Patton Oswalt, and Slovin & Allen...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 65GRAND
Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Navy Pier
Over 400 artists from as far as Tel Aviv and London gather at Navy Pier for this weekend's Sculpture Objects and...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
Friday 11/ 7 @ Roots & Culture
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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
Friday 11/ 7 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Music Box Theatre
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montès,...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Friday 11/ 7 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Friday 11/ 7 @ Golden
Helsinki-born, Spain-based Riiko Sakkinen's work appeals to hungry global palates, offering a witty update of the pop-art aesthetic. Stealing source materials...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ threewalls
With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Viaduct Theater
A cardboard city has sprung up inside the Viaduct Theater in Roscoe Village, but it isn't the set for a play....
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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....
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Rowland Contemporary
For Karen Lebergott, mapping is a conceptual departure point that sets off multiple trajectories. Her oil paintings suggest Chinese landscapes or...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
