Events on Thursday, June 12
Thursday 6/12 @ The Hideout
Lynda Barry, creator of the cult comic Ernie Pook's Comeek, just unveiled her new creative-method how-to book What It Is. Part...
Thursday 6/12 @ The Empty Bottle
After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more...
Thursday 6/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Between landing Best Director honors in 1948 (Gentleman's Agreement) and pushing sexual mores with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Elia Kazan...
Thursday 6/12 @ Metro
While Guitar Hero may have reduced pretend rock 'n roll to mere button-pushing, the US Air Guitar Championships prove that the...
Thursday 6/12 @ House of Blues
If Virgins frontman Donald Cumming looks familiar, it may be because you've seen his bits 'n pieces gracing the walls of...
Ongoing Events
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Thursday 6/12 @ Walsh Gallery
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,...
Thursday 6/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Thursday 6/12 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Thursday 6/12 @ Garfield Park Conservatory
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little...
Thursday 6/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
If films like Super Size Me (2004) and Fast Food Nation (2006) didn't turn you on to a strictly organic, nuts-and-berries...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Festa Pasta Vino
Most Chicagoans know the Sicilian-dominated Little Italy on Taylor Street, but there's another Italian 'hood, settled mostly by Tuscans, tucked away...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Thursday 6/12 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Music Box Theatre
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Thursday 6/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in...
Thursday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Storefront Theater
Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full...
