All events on Wednesday May 21

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Tiffany Dome Project
Wednesday May 21 (6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
Free
The Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's architectural gems, with charms including the world's largest Louis Comfort Tiffany-designed glass dome. A full restoration... View details »
Tiffany Dome Project
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Rick Kogan and Buddy Charles
Wednesday May 21 (6pm) @ 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 and conversation. Buddy Charles... View details »
Rick Kogan and Buddy Charles
Music: Rock/Pop
The Old Haunts
Wednesday May 21 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
On the new Poisonous Times, the Old Haunts carry on the proud tradition of Pacific Northwest garage rock. Their third record for Kill Rock Stars... View details »
The Old Haunts
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The Fight for the Right
Wednesday May 21 (6pm) @ 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 first time ever, a... View details »
The Fight for the Right
Performing Arts: Theatre
Avenue Q
Wednesday May 21 @ Cadillac Palace Theater More times »
The producers of Rent have caught lightning in a bottle a second time, proving again that musical theatre can be relevant to the twentysomething crowd.... View details »
Avenue Q

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Tony Fitzpatrick
Wednesday May 21 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
Free
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
Tony Fitzpatrick
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Wednesday May 21 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Art
Justin Cooper
Wednesday May 21 (10am–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
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 issues. Using tangles of... View details »
Justin Cooper
Art
Black Is Black Ain't
Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively hot. This large group... View details »
Black Is Black Ain't
Art
Ken Fandell
Wednesday May 21 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble telescope, fragmented and refracted... View details »
Ken Fandell
Film
The Visitor
Wednesday May 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Film
Dark Matter
Wednesday May 21 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that it maligns. But for... View details »
Dark Matter
Art
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Wednesday May 21 (11am–5pm) @ Kasia Kay Art Projects More times »
Free
The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a general characterization, anyhow, not... View details »
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Film
Baby Mama
Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations More times »
With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most memorably as the SNL... View details »
Baby Mama
Film
Redbelt
Wednesday May 21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise the martial art's principles.... View details »
Redbelt
Film
Jellyfish
Wednesday May 21 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
Jellyfish
Music: Rock/Pop
Mike Ness
Wednesday May 21 (8pm) @ Park West More times »
Social Distortion frontman and punk-rock vet Mike Ness brings his newly swamp-rocking sound and copious tattoos to town for a solo set. Ness formed Social... View details »
Mike Ness
Film
The Witnesses
Wednesday May 21 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris around 1984. But, as... View details »
The Witnesses
Art
Christa Donner
Wednesday May 21 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
Christa Donner
Art
Strange Habit
Wednesday May 21 (11am–5pm) @ I Space Gallery More times »
Free
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby — who incorporate unintentional elements... View details »
Strange Habit
Art
Frau Fiber
Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's At the Edge: Innovative... View details »
Art
Everyday People
Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
Everyday People
Film
Then She Found Me
Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations More times »
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
Then She Found Me
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Wednesday May 21 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
Ben Gest
Art
David Hockney
Wednesday May 21 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases... View details »
David Hockney
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Wednesday May 21 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Wednesday May 21 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
Design in the Age of Darwin