Events on Friday, April 11
Friday 4/11 @ Abbey Pub
With more than a little fanfare, glitchy innovators Autechre released Quaristice last month, their first album in three years. Living up...
Friday 4/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
The Hyde Park Art Center has done much to kindle Chicago's visual-arts scene, and now it's adding fuel to the fire...
Friday 4/11 @ The Empty Bottle
Noise isn't supposed to be this pretty. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu, and a whole mess of pedal-pushers have shown that's...
Friday 4/11 @ South Union Arts
For all of Carla Bozulich's previous triumphs, Evangelista seems like her ultimate project. Anyone familiar with the buzz-saw twang of the...
Friday 4/11 @ SmartBar
Cologne's Kompakt label is home to all things great and small in electronic music. From Justus Köhncke to Superpitcher, the imprint...
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Friday 4/11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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...
Friday 4/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In Chapel/Chapter, Bill T. Jones' choreography scans like a lecture or a sermon; it's dance designed to really convince you of...
Friday 4/11 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
Friday 4/11 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid...
Friday 4/11 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only...
Friday 4/11 @ 65GRAND
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works...
Friday 4/11 @ Tony Wight Gallery
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...
Friday 4/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,...
Friday 4/11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of...
Friday 4/11 @ Porchlight Theatre
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2....
Friday 4/11 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Friday 4/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor...
Friday 4/11 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Friday 4/11 @ The Chicago Theatre
While the Superman-obsessed Jerry Seinfeld has been lying relatively low since his show's finale in 1998 — notwithstanding his annoying, omnipresent...
Friday 4/11 @ Extension Gallery
Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange...
Friday 4/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring...
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Friday 4/11 @ Various locations
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night...
Friday 4/11 @ The Annoyance Theatre
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work...
Friday 4/11 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded...
Friday 4/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective....
Friday 4/11 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series...


























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