All events on Tuesday April 01

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Performing Arts: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Tuesday Apr 1 (7:30–10pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance More times »
While Hubbard Street's first week at the Harris featured some choice pieces — notably the latest from in-house choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo — Program Two better... View details »
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Film
America the Beautiful
Tuesday Apr 1 (7:30–9pm) @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In his new documentary, Chicago filmmaker Darryl Roberts attempts to explain why Americans are so obsessed with looking picture-perfect — why we're willing to shell... View details »
America the Beautiful
Music: Rock/Pop
Lair of the Minotaur
Tuesday Apr 1 (9pm–midnight) @ The Note
As Lair of the Minotaur know, thrash metal and Greek mythology have always gone hand-in-hand. But while the band will unleash plenty of both for... View details »
Lair of the Minotaur
Music: Rock/Pop
Kaki King
Tuesday Apr 1 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Kaki King's latest album, Dreaming of Revenge, is drawing notice for its mix of virtuosic instrumental tracks and evocative lyrics — not to mention King's... View details »
Kaki King
Music: Rock/Pop
Explosions in the Sky
Tuesday Apr 1 (8pm) @ Congress Theater
Giveaway
Explosions in the Sky are America's answer to Scotland's Mogwai and Canada's Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The Austin band's epic rock instrumentals conjure up cinematic... View details »
Explosions in the Sky
Music: Rock/Pop
FrostituTron
Tuesday Apr 1 (2–3pm) @ Eczema Room
From the dirt-stained child pornographers of Frostitute comes this year's hottest, steaming-est pile of beat-powered dance-floor napalm: FrostituTron. Slinging passive-aggressive tracks the way cafeteria lunch... View details »
FrostituTron

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Art
The New Authentics
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
The New Authentics
Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring to the loss of... View details »
Gordon Matta-Clark
Art
Adaptation
Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from... View details »
Adaptation
Performing Arts: Dance
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Sold Out!
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories of both a building... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Art
Edward Hopper
Tuesday Apr 1 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective. It includes his most... View details »
Edward Hopper
Art
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Tuesday Apr 1 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor painting, with landscapes depicting... View details »
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series Are You Rea (1966-67).... View details »
Robert Heinecken
Film: Documentary
Lagerfeld Confidential
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Perhaps the only fashion designer to be immortalized by a collectable figurine, Karl Lagerfeld has become as iconic as the great luxury houses (Chanel, Fendi,... View details »
Lagerfeld Confidential
Film
Snow Angels
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of small-town America working in... View details »
Snow Angels
Art
Medium Cool
Tuesday Apr 1 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms, as reflected in the... View details »
Medium Cool
Film
CJ7
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Chinese director/star Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), a whirl of martial-arts pyrotechnics and tomfoolery, proved irresistible to even the most disinclined audiences. His latest,... View details »
CJ7
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Tuesday Apr 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents have left him at his grandfather's house so hastily that they don't realize... View details »
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation