Events on Wednesday, May 21
Wednesday 5/21 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
Women register and vote at a higher rate than men. There are record numbers of them in Congress. Heck, for the...
Wednesday 5/21 @ The Empty Bottle
On the new Poisonous Times, the Old Haunts carry on the proud tradition of Pacific Northwest garage rock. Their third record...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Maxim's: The Nancy Goldberg International Center
There was a time when Chicago was home to dozens of piano bars — dark, smoky, raucous settings for late-night cocktails...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's architectural gems, with charms including the world's largest Louis Comfort Tiffany-designed glass...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Music Box Theatre
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris...
Wednesday 5/21 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Wednesday 5/21 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a...
Wednesday 5/21 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/21 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Wednesday 5/21 @ 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...
