Events on Thursday, April 24
Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
Thursday 4/24 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Armed with an overhead projector, a microphone, and dozens of ornately illustrated transparencies, Daniel Barrow turns his hour-long multimedia presentation Every...
Thursday 4/24 @ 57th Street Books
Mary Roach has been dubbed "the funniest science writer in the country," and the title is well-deserved. Her previous books, Stiff:...
Thursday 4/24 @ The Empty Bottle
Over the last few years, Canada has become a breeding ground for innovative music, from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ Vonzweck
Brennan McGaffey's latest creation is a 1:16 scale model of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The US Air Force has used...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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....
Thursday 4/24 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Thursday 4/24 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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...
Thursday 4/24 @ 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,...
