All events on Friday April 11

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Music: Electronic
Autechre
Friday Apr 11 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
Giveaway
With more than a little fanfare, glitchy innovators Autechre released Quaristice last month, their first album in three years. Living up to expectations isn't easy... View details »
Autechre
Performing Arts: Comedy
[SOLD OUT] Jerry Seinfeld
Friday Apr 11 (7 & 9:30pm) @ The Chicago Theatre More times »
Sold Out!
While the Superman-obsessed Jerry Seinfeld has been lying relatively low since his show's finale in 1998 — notwithstanding his annoying, omnipresent marketing blitz for Bee... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Jerry Seinfeld
More Flavor: Party
Cockails & Clay
Friday Apr 11 (8pm–midnight) @ 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 with a fully stocked... View details »
Cockails & Clay
Music: DJ
Gui Boratto
Friday Apr 11 (10pm) @ SmartBar
Cologne's Kompakt label is home to all things great and small in electronic music. From Justus Köhncke to Superpitcher, the imprint has released much of... View details »
Gui Boratto
Music: Rock/Pop
Evangelista
Friday Apr 11 (9pm) @ 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 Geraldine Fibbers or her... View details »
Evangelista
Music: Electronic
Fuck Buttons
Friday Apr 11 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Noise isn't supposed to be this pretty. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu, and a whole mess of pedal-pushers have shown that's not necessarily true, but... View details »
Fuck Buttons
Film
Priceless
Friday Apr 11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
This comedy of errors about gold-digger Irène (Audrey Tautou of Amélie fame), who mistakes hapless bartender Jean (Gad Elmaleh from The Valet) for a rich... View details »
Priceless

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Art
The New Authentics
Friday Apr 11 @ 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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Art
Edward Hopper
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Friday Apr 11 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
Free
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works on display include smart,... View details »
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Performing Arts: Comedy
Bear Force One
Friday Apr 11 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Giveaway
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work would one day springboard... View details »
Bear Force One
More Flavor: City Gem
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Friday Apr 11 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
Free
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 the progressive community Hull... View details »
Performing Arts: Dance
The Seldoms
Friday Apr 11 @ 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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Friday Apr 11 @ 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
Friday Apr 11 @ 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
Friday Apr 11 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Nine: The Musical
Friday Apr 11 (8–10pm) @ Porchlight Theatre More times »
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2. Fellini's title reflected the... View details »
Nine: The Musical
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Friday Apr 11 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery More times »
Free
Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange and blue shape, emerging... View details »
Unseen Current
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Friday Apr 11 @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Chapel/Chapter
Friday Apr 11 (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