Events on Thursday, July 10
Thursday 7/10 @ Harold Washington Library
Indian-born author Salman Rushdie spent nearly a decade in hiding due to his controversial, fatwa-inducing novel The Satanic Verses, but somehow...
Thursday 7/10 @ The Hideout
Presaging the new-millennium rise of shadowy indie Americana by about eight years, Chicago's own Red Red Meat were like a house...
Thursday 7/10 @ Spy Bar
In Lora Fosberg's offbeat art, you're likely to find some skeletons tongue wrestling, or an airplane above the beach towing the...
Thursday 7/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
With Hillary Clinton's historic campaign finally kaput, feminists are left wondering: who's next? To that end, the documentary What's Your Point,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ Various locations
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style....
Thursday 7/10 @ National Museum of Mexican Art
It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way...
Thursday 7/10 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival....
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 —...
Thursday 7/10 @ Music Box Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Thursday 7/10 @ 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...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ 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...
Thursday 7/10 @ Various locations
Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Thursday 7/10 @ 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?...
Thursday 7/10 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work...
Thursday 7/10 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Thursday 7/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Local artist Gisela Insuaste mines the terrain of personal recollection and material culture for her multidisciplinary installations. In painting, drawing, and...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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....
Thursday 7/10 @ 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...
Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
Thursday 7/10 @ Western Exhibitions
If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh...
Thursday 7/10 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Thursday 7/10 @ Walsh Gallery
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,...
Thursday 7/10 @ Music Box Theatre
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Although Improv Match Game panelists concoct impromptu answers to broad questions, it's less an exercise in traditional improv comedy than a...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ 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...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ threewalls
Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Paris' Père-Lachaise — one of the most-visited cemeteries in the world — is the final resting place for a stunning number...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Thursday 7/10 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
It Came from the Neo-Futurarium
Thursday 7/10 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Substandard cinema usually has a special place on Blockbuster's back shelves, but the Neo-Futurists drag it back into the spotlight by...
Thursday 7/10 @ 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 7/10 @ 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...
Thursday 7/10 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
Thursday 7/10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen...
