Events on Wednesday, June 25
Wednesday 6/25 @ Beverly Arts Center
One of the most certifiably adorable films of all time, Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie set the gold standard for G-rated...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Joined by husband and recent collaborator Matt Madden, underground comic artist Jessica Abel returns to Chicago to discuss a slew of...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Chicago Public Library - Lozano
Documentary Black Diamonds exposes one of the worst ongoing environmental disasters you've never heard of: mountaintop-removal mining. Preferred by the coal...
Wednesday 6/25 @ The Green Mill
The immensely popular, ever-expanding performance phenomenon known as Mortified — in which ordinary people excavate their most embarrassing adolescent artifacts on...
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Wednesday 6/25 @ International House
Grandmaster Flash's pioneering turntable techniques — which include cutting, backspinning, and mixing — helped birth hip-hop, and eventually earned him (and...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Wednesday 6/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Scott Hicks' documentary on the legendary composer Philip Glass is an admiring portrait, not a warts-and-all exposé. Hicks, the director of...
Wednesday 6/25 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Lookingglass Theatre Company has chosen to revive the 2000 hit For Keeps and a Single Day for its 20th season. Thomas...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Music Box Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Wednesday 6/25 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival....
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Wednesday 6/25 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode —...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press....
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Music Box Theatre
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Wednesday 6/25 @ Richard Gray Gallery
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why...
Wednesday 6/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both...
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Wednesday 6/25 @ Walsh Gallery
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Wednesday 6/25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?...
