Events on Thursday, April 3
Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Architectural historian Thomas Hines offers a sophisticated spin on that tackiest of Los Angeles tourist traps: the Homes of the Stars...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Subterranean
One of the few experimental bands that are actually pleasing to the ears, Dirty Projectors combine dizzying, scooped-out harmonies with choppy...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
When the Soviet Union collapsed, artists in communist countries were finally free to experiment beyond the state-approved style of social realism....
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
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Thursday 4/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
