Events on Thursday, May 29
Thursday 5/29 @ Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
With apologies to Southern France and Italy, when we hear "Mediterranean cuisine," we think of Greece and its braised lamb, thick...
Thursday 5/29 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Brainy avant chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird is named after the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at...
Thursday 5/29 @ Double Door
French Kicks may be the underdogs of Brooklyn's post-post-punk scene, but at their best, they rival the Walkmen or the Strokes....
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Thursday 5/29 @ The Empty Bottle
When France's M83 first washed up on these shores with 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, it was a...
Thursday 5/29 @ Block Cinema
Douglas Sirk's melodramas are visual vortexes of societal and domestic issues, spun to heartbreaking effect. For his final Hollywood outing, Imitation...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Spot
Perusing the latest Popular Science at the bar will draw judgmental eye-rolls at Rainbo, and would surely get your ass kicked...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Chicago Theatre
Not everyone "gets" the Kids in the Hall's humor. (It helps if you prefer a good deal of absurdity peppering your...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Thursday 5/29 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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
Thursday 5/29 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
Thursday 5/29 @ Music Box Theatre
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris...
