Events on Thursday, May 1
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Millennium Park
Barbara Geiger looks back at historical, Chicago-affiliated landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds to find a link...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Various locations
Drowning armadillos, bumbling detectives, and disgruntled Santa's-little-helpers were among the hundreds of bizarre, funny, and heartbreaking subjects that made This American...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Park West
Sure, as guitarist for Rage Against the Machine he generated a decade's worth of ass-kicking riffs, but Tom Morello's achievements since...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Abbey Pub
Fifteen years ago, It's a Shame About Ray proved that the Lemonheads had more to offer than Evan Dando's puppy-dog eyes...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
