Events on Tuesday, May 6

Rethinking Soup

Special Event

Rethinking Soup

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum

Continuing the tradition of its founder, social reformer Jane Addams — an advocate for immigrants' rights, public housing, and child-labor laws... 

Magical Musical Showcase feat. Cass McCombs

Music

Cass McCombs

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

When the time comes for Cass McCombs' photo spread in SPIN — and it won't be long now — don't be... 

Roger Ebert

Books: Reading

Roger Ebert

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Borders

Last month, the venerable Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert was too ill to make it to his annual Ebertfest. The festival... 

Ongoing Events

Art

Frau Fiber

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>

Art

Ken Fandell

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>

Art

Justin Cooper

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Last Year at Marienbad </em>(1961)<em> </em>

Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Music Box Theatre

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The... 

David Hockney<em>:</em> <em>Looking at Woldgate Woods</em>

Art

David Hockney

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

Christa Donner: <em>ExtraSensory</em>

Art

Christa Donner

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Baby Mama</em>

Film

Baby Mama

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Various locations

With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most... 

Millennium Park Revealed

Special Event

Millennium Park Revealed

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor... 

<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>

Art: Photography

Three Hours Between Planes

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Strange Habit</em>

Art

Strange Habit

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ I Space Gallery

For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —... 

<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>

Art

Black Is Black Ain't

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Renaissance Society

The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective.... 

Tony Fitzpatrick: <em>The Wonder:</em><em> Portraits of a Remembered City</em>

Art

Tony Fitzpatrick

Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...