All events on Wednesday April 16

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Performing Arts
[SOLD OUT] Laurie Anderson: Homeland
Wednesday Apr 16 (7:30pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Sold Out!
Avant-garde multimedia artist Laurie Anderson has flirted with the cultural mainstream for years. She hit No. 2 on the UK charts with her 1981 experimental... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Laurie Anderson: Homeland
More Flavor: City Gem
Global Activism Expo
Wednesday Apr 16 (6pm) @ Broadway Armory
Every week on his Chicago Public Radio show Worldview, Jerome McDonnell presents a segment called Global Activism, featuring interviews with people dedicated to improving our... View details »
Global Activism Expo
More Flavor: Lecture
Reintroducing Endangered Species
Wednesday Apr 16 (7–8:30pm) @ Lincoln Park Zoo
Hundreds of animal species in the US, including the red wolf and island fox, are at serious risk of becoming extinct. The Lincoln Park Zoo... View details »
Reintroducing Endangered Species
Music: Rock/Pop
Man Man
Wednesday Apr 16 (9pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
Giveaway
Step right up! The traveling Man Man circus is back in town. And yes, Honus Honus still bellows like a carnival barker over proggy sea... View details »
Man Man
Music: DJ
Screaming Bloody Murder
Wednesday Apr 16 (8pm) @ Metro
Giveaway
Tonight's lineup reads like a worldwide DJ battle, with five international talents killing the decks for all they're worth. Dim Mak rep Steve Aoki spins... View details »
Screaming Bloody Murder

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Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Mark Wagner
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Wednesday Apr 16 (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
Wednesday Apr 16 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 16 @ 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
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Wednesday Apr 16 @ 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