Events on Tuesday, May 6
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
