All events on Monday June 23
Previous day|Next day- Music: Folk/Country
- Gary Higgins
- Monday June 23 (12:15–1:30pm) @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion
- Free
- Say what you will about freak-folk's tendency toward suffocating pastoralism and idealized naivete, but it's breathed second life into some very worthy '70s curios. Like... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sloan
- Monday June 23 (9pm) @ Double Door
- If the readers of Chart magazine are to be believed, Sloan's Twice Removed is the greatest Canadian album ever made (Joni Mitchell and Neil Young's... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Monday June 23 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- Monday June 23 (8am–7pm) @ 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
- Monday June 23 @ 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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Monday June 23 @ 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
- Collecting for Chicago
- Monday June 23 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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
- Videodance
- Monday June 23 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
- Art
- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- Monday June 23 (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
- Monday June 23 (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
- Monday June 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Jim Tansley
- Monday June 23 (8am–7pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- David Hockney
- Monday June 23 (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
- Monday June 23 (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?
- Monday June 23 @ 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 »
- Film
- Refusenik
- Monday June 23 @ 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
- Monday June 23 @ 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
- Monday June 23 @ 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
- Monday June 23 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Monday June 23 (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
- Monday June 23 (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
- Monday June 23 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Monday June 23 (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 »
