Events on Friday, July 25
Friday 7/25 @ Doc Films
Jean-Luc Godard's spirited feature Pierrot le Fou is considered by some to be his greatest achievement. Fleeing a dull bourgeois party,...
Friday 7/25 @ The Chicago Theatre
Since Bill Maher's earliest days as host of the late-night talk show Politically Incorrect, his acerbic wit and confrontational stances on...
Friday 7/25 @ The Empty Bottle
In the mainstream crossover sweepstakes, noise act Hair Police are unlikely to hit the jackpot. They're more jarring and droning than...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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....
Friday 7/25 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Various locations
Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
Friday 7/25 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Friday 7/25 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Figurative painter Jane Fisher returns to Chicago with her latest series of paintings: a simple celebration of humanity entitled Big Heads...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Music Box Theatre
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Friday 7/25 @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's...
The 2008 Silent Summer Film Festival
Friday 7/25 @ Portage Theater
The annual Silent Summer Film Festival resurrects the glory of film's Golden Age, screening classics from the silent era. Comedies, dramas,...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Zachary Cahill: The Best Laid Plans
Friday 7/25 @ DOVA Temporary
Explicitly political art has fallen out of favor in recent decades, although there have been signs of a comeback as the...
Friday 7/25 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Links Hall
In his acclaimed 2003 work Us, Tim Miller goes into forced exile when his British partner's visa expires and he's not...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ threewalls
Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ 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 —...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
As China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs,...
Friday 7/25 @ 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....
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
Friday 7/25 @ Western Exhibitions
If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh...
Friday 7/25 @ 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...
Friday 7/25 @ Music Box Theatre
Pointedly personal and unapologetically polemical, Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 invitation into a wonderful well of weird. The offbeat classic is...
