Events on Tuesday, April 22

People Who Shape Our World: Arik Levy

Special Event

Arik Levy

Tuesday 4/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

As an award-winning designer and founder of French firm L Design, Arik Levy has worked in a staggering variety of media,... 

Disfear w/ Sweet Cobra, Yakuza, and Trap Them

Music

Disfear

Tuesday 4/22 @ Subterranean

Great punk-metal died with the dodo, or at least with Napalm Death, right? Luckily, no one told Disfear. A few years... 

The Local Option

Special Event

The Local Option

Tuesday 4/22 @ Chicago History Museum

In yet another attempt to encourage Chicago dwellers to go green, a collection of food experts dishes out advice on growing... 

Judy Chicago: <em>The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation</em>

Books: Reading

Judy Chicago

Tuesday 4/22 @ Women & Children First Bookstore

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party might be the most iconic — and controversial — piece of feminist art of the last... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Tuesday 4/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>

Art: Photography

Three Hours Between Planes

Tuesday 4/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center

In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11... 

Eli Robb

Art

Eli Robb

Tuesday 4/22 @ threewalls

Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground.... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Year My Parents Went on Vacation</em>

Film

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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.... 

<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>

Art

Black Is Black Ain't

Tuesday 4/22 @ The Renaissance Society

The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... 

Iron and Wine w/ Califone

Music

Iron and Wine

Tuesday 4/22 @ Vic Theatre

Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron... 

Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>

Art

Justin Cooper

Tuesday 4/22 @ Gallery 400

Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>

Art

Ken Fandell

Tuesday 4/22 @ Tony Wight Gallery

In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Tuesday 4/22 @ 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,...