All events on Tuesday July 08
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- Wolf Parade
- Tuesday July 8 (6:30pm) @ House of Blues
- Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock — a pair of... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jimmy Ellis
- Tuesday July 8 (5:30–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Free
- This week, the MCA's Tuesdays on the Terrace series spotlights South Side jazz great Jimmy Ellis. Ellis studied under the legendary Captain Walter Dyett —... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Summer Jam-Off
- Tuesday July 8 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- Free
- If you've ever gazed longingly at big bushels of farmers-market peaches and wondered how you could realistically ingest that much fruit while it's still fresh,... View details »
- Art
- Gisela Insuaste
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Local artist Gisela Insuaste mines the terrain of personal recollection and material culture for her multidisciplinary installations. In painting, drawing, and three-dimensional forms, Insuaste conjures... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
- Art
- Ladylike
- Tuesday July 8 (1–6pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
- Free
- In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
- Art
- Christa Donner
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
- For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
- Art
- Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
- Tuesday July 8 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
- Free
- Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
- Art
- Collecting for Chicago
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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.
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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?
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
- Art
- Michael Jones McKean
- Tuesday July 8 (11am–6pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
- Free
- Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence, and the unusual artifacts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Split! and Shatter
- Tuesday July 8 (8:30pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
- Before Steve Carell and Chris Farley springboarded from Chicago's Second City main stage to the big time, they spent years honing their craft in the... View details »
- Film
- Brick Lane
- Tuesday July 8 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
- Art
- ISN'T IT
- Tuesday July 8 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
- Free
- At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Tuesday July 8 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jeff Parker
- Tuesday July 8 (10:30pm) @ Rodan More times »
- Free
- If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker play for free every... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Forever
- Tuesday July 8 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
- Paris' Père-Lachaise — one of the most-visited cemeteries in the world — is the final resting place for a stunning number of artists, including Chopin,... View details »
- Art
- Clouds, et al
- Tuesday July 8 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
- Free
- During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- Tuesday July 8 (5:30pm) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Tuesday July 8 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary More times »
- Free
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into conversation. In this sancturary,... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Frank & Cindy
- Tuesday July 8 (8pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Episodes of VH1's I Love the '80s and 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders might keep memories of OXO's "Whirly Girl" alive, but OXO's members are all... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Farmers' Market
- Tuesday July 8 (9am–4pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- In addition to the hot sticky days and fighting crowds at the Taste of Chicago, summertime means a barrage of fresh, beautiful produce. The... View details »
- More Flavor: Sports
- Taste of Fitness
- Tuesday July 8 (6pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the ubiquitous dilemma: free outdoor... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
- Devil in a Woodpile
- Tuesday July 8 (9:30pm) @ The Hideout More times »
- Free
- It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country blues for years; they've... View details »
- Art
- Boys of Summer
- Tuesday July 8 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo
- Tuesday July 8 @ Various locations More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–5pm) @ National Museum of Mexican Art More times »
- Free
- It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way to go when it... View details »
- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
- Free
- Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Tuesday July 8 (10am–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
- Free
- What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
