All events on Thursday April 10

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Film: Shorts
Chicago Short Film Brigade
Thursday Apr 10 (8:30pm) @ The Hideout More times »
While culture as a whole may lose out, the oft-ignored film short has a lot to gain from the decline of the American attention span.... View details »
Chicago Short Film Brigade
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver
Thursday Apr 10 (7 & 10pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
Sold Out!
Following the breakup of his old band, DeYarmond Edison, Justin Vernon, the humble genius behind one-man band Bon Iver, holed up in a remote Wisconsin... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver
More Flavor: Lecture
Noir Novelists in Hollywood
Thursday Apr 10 (6pm) @ Harold Washington Library
Free
Chicago's powers-that-be get the locals to crack a book from time to time with One Book One Chicago, a city-wide book club. This month's read... View details »
Noir Novelists in Hollywood
Music: Rock/Pop
Minus Story
Thursday Apr 10 (9pm) @ The Note
Minus Story just can't make up their musical minds. Rather than forging ahead one way or another, the Lawrence, Kansas, outfit stitches its variegated stylistic... View details »
Minus Story
Performing Arts: Dance
Chapel/Chapter
Thursday Apr 10 (7:30pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
In Chapel/Chapter, Bill T. Jones' choreography scans like a lecture or a sermon; it's dance designed to really convince you of something — or at... View details »
Chapel/Chapter

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Art
The New Authentics
Thursday Apr 10 @ 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
Thursday Apr 10 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Thursday Apr 10 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Art
Edward Hopper
Thursday Apr 10 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Apr 10 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
The Seldoms
Thursday Apr 10 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts More times »
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid of attacking topical material... View details »
The Seldoms
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Thursday Apr 10 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show at the newly christened... View details »
John Phillips: New Paintings
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Thursday Apr 10 (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
Art
Mark Wagner
Thursday Apr 10 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark Wagner uses his bucks... View details »
Mark Wagner
Art
Eli Robb
Thursday Apr 10 (noon–6pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
Free
Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground. Undaunted, Robb used the... View details »
Eli Robb
Film
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Thursday Apr 10 @ Various locations More times »
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night kicks off with El... View details »
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Film
Snow Angels
Thursday Apr 10 @ 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
Thursday Apr 10 (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
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Thursday Apr 10 @ 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
Art
Brennan McGaffey
Thursday Apr 10 (6–9pm) @ Vonzweck More times »
Free
Brennan McGaffey's latest creation is a 1:16 scale model of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The US Air Force has used Stratotankers for aerial refueling... View details »
Brennan McGaffey