Events on Friday, April 25
Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout
Friday 4/25 @ Quimby's Bookstore
As founding members of the Lit 6 Project and accompanying radio show Electric Arc Radio, Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout have...
Friday 4/25 @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Gallery 2
Artist Suzie Silver returns to her alma mater with collaborator Terry Boyd to present I Heart Robots 2.0: A Spacedelic Video...
Friday 4/25 @ Schubas
Minnesota-based art-rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician/environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have scorned lucrative record...
Friday 4/25 @ The Flowershop
In 2005, former Wolf Eye Aaron Dilloway left the renowned Michigan noise trio to live and record solo in Nepal. Since...
Ongoing Events
Immediate Sound Series 2nd Anniversary
Friday 4/25 @ The Hideout
The Hideout celebrates the second anniversary of its Immediate Sound series with an all-star lineup of Chicago improvisers and out-of-town guests....
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Friday 4/25 @ 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...
Friday 4/25 @ Facets Cinémathèque
A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey...
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Friday 4/25 @ 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...
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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...
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based...
Friday 4/25 @ 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,...
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Double Indemnity is the quintessential film noir — a pitch-black whirlwind of double entendres and triple crosses in which Barbara Stanwyck...
Friday 4/25 @ 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...
Friday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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...
