Events on Wednesday, May 28
Wednesday 5/28 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
To all but the hardiest cinephiles, a three-and-a-half-hour French art-house film composed mostly of conversations might sound tough to endure. But...
Wednesday 5/28 @ Schubas
Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar get a crowd more riled up than...
Wednesday 5/28 @ Beverly Arts Center
An Egyptian-police band invited to perform in Israel arrives at the wrong town, much to the dismay of the group's leader,...
Wednesday 5/28 @ Abbey Pub
As frontman for '90s proto-emo heroes Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk used vocal histrionics to inspire rockers to get in...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/28 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Wednesday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/28 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
