Events on Tuesday, July 22
Tuesday 7/22 @ Grant Park
Anyone who's ever lived with a roommate can understand the animosity and hilarity of The Odd Couple. The 1968 classic follows...
Ongoing Events
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Tuesday 7/22 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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....
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Various locations
Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In addition to the hot sticky days and fighting crowds at the Taste of Chicago, summertime means a barrage of fresh,...
Tuesday 7/22 @ threewalls
Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ The Hideout
It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Notebaert Nature Museum
Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers is a collaborative group of new-media artists that addresses issues of sustainability and community...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Navy Pier
The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Daley Plaza
Pick up a new pair of summer kicks or watch a fashion show on your lunch break at this year's sidewalk...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
"At 31 years of age, I was diagnosed with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that kills 90% of its victims within five...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Tuesday 7/22 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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 —...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Music Box Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
As China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs,...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Figurative painter Jane Fisher returns to Chicago with her latest series of paintings: a simple celebration of humanity entitled Big Heads...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of...
Tuesday 7/22 @ The Second City e.t.c.
Before Steve Carell and Chris Farley springboarded from Chicago's Second City main stage to the big time, they spent years honing...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Tuesday 7/22 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Music Box Theatre
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur...
