Events on Friday, May 2
Friday 5/ 2 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Julie Nakagawa's keen eye for talent and brilliant coaching skills produce mature dance from her ambitious, young sextet. A casual, exciting...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Metro
Austin's Ghostland Observatory have been gathering steam since 2005, when Aaron Behrens first demonstrated his commanding charisma and impressive vocal range...
Friday 5/ 2 @ SAIC Sage Studios for Fashion Design
The fashion department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a strong creative and market force in the...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
The Loop is a bustle of activity during the business day, but it often seems like the district rolls up its...
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Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
