Events on Tuesday, May 27
Tuesday 5/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
On the fourth Tuesday of each month, knitters of all stripes congregate in the airy, Takashi Murakami-wallpapered Puck's Café for a...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 57th Street Books
For over four decades, Andy Austin has enjoyed front-row seats at some of the most important trials in Chicago's criminal history....
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ The Second City e.t.c.
Before Steve Carell and Chris Farley springboarded from Chicago's Second City main stage to the big time, they spent years honing...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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
Tuesday 5/27 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ The Empty Bottle
Declaring a band "darlings" is one of the music press' more backhanded compliments. But really, there's no better way to describe...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Music Box Theatre
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris...
Tuesday 5/27 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Tuesday 5/27 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Tuesday 5/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Alfedena Gallery
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates...
Tuesday 5/27 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
