All events on Friday June 20
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- Willie Nelson & Family
- Friday June 20 (8pm) @ The Pavilion at Ravinia
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Friday June 20 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
- Free
- Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »
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- Art
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Friday June 20 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Friday June 20 (8 & 11pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- Friday June 20 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
- Free
- Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Friday June 20 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
- Free
- What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- Friday June 20 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
