Events on Tuesday, April 29
Tuesday 4/29 @ 57th Street Books
Those looking to debunk evolution often argue that the human brain, with its complex design and remarkable capabilities, could not have...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Logan Square Auditorium
Yelle's timing couldn't be better, hot as she is on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew....
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Second City e.t.c.
Late Second City teacher and ImprovOlympic co-founder Del Close taught the art of improvisation to a who's-who of comedy, including John...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Abbey Pub
With trademark Parisian pouts and Zoolander-like stage presence, these fashionable Frenchies sing catchy, often X-rated electro-pop in tongue-in-cheek accented Franglais. Their...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Chicago History Museum
These days, Chicago is a must-stop destination for foodies on the quest for good eats. But this wasn't always the case...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/29 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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....
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
