All events on Friday June 20

|
Music: Rock/Pop
Willie Nelson & Family
Friday June 20 (8pm) @ The Pavilion at Ravinia in Highland Park
Of late, the Red Headed Stranger has only made headlines via a string of so-so albums, dubious new-country collaborations (though we forgive him — we... View details »
Willie Nelson & Family
Art
Jim Tansley
Friday June 20 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
Jim Tansley
Performing Arts: Dance
The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
Friday June 20 (7:30pm) @ The Galaxie More times »
Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities — sans convoluted vendetta, lumber, and prostitutes — is an ideological wrestling match, with an exhortation to... View details »
The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
Music: Rock/Pop
Black Angels
Friday June 20 (9pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
Neo-psychers the Black Angels plumb a pretty wide range of obscurist delights, cozying up to everyone from Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine to the... View details »
Black Angels
Film
Refusenik
Friday June 20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
A chronicle of the 30-year international movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik is old-school — full of talking heads, historical footage, and blissfully, very little... View details »
Refusenik
Film: Documentary
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Friday June 20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Scott Hicks' documentary on the legendary composer Philip Glass is an admiring portrait, not a warts-and-all exposé. Hicks, the director of the musical biopic Shine,... View details »
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Friday June 20 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Friday June 20 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
Up the Yangtze
Music: Hip-Hop
Dilated Peoples
Friday June 20 (9pm) @ Double Door
Fresh off their latest DVD/CD, The Release Party, '90s LA crew Dilated Peoples hold it down tonight for the Chicago stop on Decon's cross-country multimedia... View details »
Dilated Peoples
Art
Boys of Summer
Friday June 20 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
Boys of Summer

The following events are ongoing.

Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Friday June 20 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater in Downtown More times »
Free
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
Tony Fitzpatrick
More Flavor: City Gem
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Friday June 20 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
Free
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded the progressive community Hull... View details »
Art
Jeff Koons
Friday June 20 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
Jeff Koons
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Friday June 20 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Art
Jay Davis
Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ Bucket Rider More times »
Free
Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
Jay Davis
Film
The Visitor
Friday June 20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Art
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Friday June 20 (11am–5pm) @ Kasia Kay Art Projects More times »
Free
The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a general characterization, anyhow, not... View details »
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Art
Ladylike
Friday June 20 (1–6pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
Free
In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
Ladylike
Film
Son of Rambow
Friday June 20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
Son of Rambow
Art
Christa Donner
Friday June 20 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
Christa Donner
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Friday June 20 (8 & 11pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. in Chicago More times »
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
Campaign Supernova!
Art
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Friday June 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
Free
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Art
Mark Booth
Friday June 20 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms and recall both cellular... View details »
Mark Booth
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Friday June 20 (10:30am–9pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
Collecting for Chicago
Art
Amanda Browder: Cyclone
Friday June 20 (1–6pm) @ Green Lantern More times »
Free
Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder is known for large... View details »
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Friday June 20 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Art
Everyday People
Friday June 20 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
Everyday People
Art
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Friday June 20 (10am–4:30pm) @ Richard Gray Gallery More times »
Free
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why the artist's profile has... View details »
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Steady Rain
Friday June 20 (8pm) @ Royal George Theatre Center More times »
Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only homicide here is in... View details »
A Steady Rain
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
Ben Gest
Art
David Hockney
Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases... View details »
David Hockney
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Friday June 20 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Friday June 20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
More Flavor: Workshop
Foundation for Freedom
Friday June 20 (1–4pm) @ Mess Hall More times »
Free
Regarding those who toil on Madison Avenue, the acid-tongued Bill Hicks once riffed, "You are Satan's little helpers… kill yourself, seriously… it's the only way... View details »
Foundation for Freedom
Art
ISN'T IT
Friday June 20 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
ISN'T IT
Art
Shape-Shifters
Friday June 20 (10am–6pm) @ Alfedena Gallery More times »
Free
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates the ways that familiar... View details »
Shape-Shifters
Art
Clouds, et al
Friday June 20 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
Clouds, et al
More Flavor: Tour
Millennium Park Revealed
Friday June 20 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
Millennium Park Revealed
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Friday June 20 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
Free
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
More Flavor: City Gem
Flower Power
Friday June 20 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
Free
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
Flower Power
Performing Arts: Theatre
Superior Donuts
Friday June 20 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the Festivus episode of Seinfeld."... View details »
Superior Donuts
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Baby Wants Candy
Friday June 20 (10:30pm) @ Apollo Theater More times »
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance, and a live band.... View details »
Baby Wants Candy
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bess
Friday June 20 (7:30pm) @ Storefront Theater More times »
Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full of swashbuckling swagger, clamoring... View details »
Bloody Bess