Events on Thursday, May 15
Thursday 5/15 @ Schubas
Portland singer/songwriter Laura Veirs has a deadpan vocal delivery just a shade lighter than Liz Phair, but whereas Phair's breakup songs...
Thursday 5/15 @ Abbey Pub
In support of last year's Maths + English, UK grime mastermind Dizzee Rascal brings his introspective rhymes and tricky electro beats...
Thursday 5/15 @ Block Cinema
It took more than a decade before this intensely private order of Carthusian monks agreed to open its doors to Philip...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Empty Bottle
Spinning cheery synth lines and reverb-soaked guitars into indie-pop gold, Sub Pop duo Helio Sequence do a lot with a little....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/15 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Various locations
Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
Thursday 5/15 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Thursday 5/15 @ International Museum of Surgical Science
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Male perspectives dominate public dialogue about the Iraq War (about most wars, in fact). Smothered in praise since its 2003 UK...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Chicago Theatre
Only Eddie Izzard could make wearing jeans and loafers an act of subversion. For Stripped, the "executive transvestite" British comic retires...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
