Events on Friday, September 26
Ongoing Events
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Friday 9/26 @ Gallery 400
Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and...
Friday 9/26 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery...
Friday 9/26 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Arranging bodies and movement on a stage presents unlimited opportunities for tackling large ideas, meaning choreographers must be skilled at handling...
Friday 9/26 @ City Gallery
Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views....
Friday 9/26 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of...
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Friday 9/26 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a...
Friday 9/26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
Friday 9/26 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history...
Friday 9/26 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ The Empty Bottle
The Hoyle Brothers are a learned bunch of musicians, and on Fridays they go interdisciplinary with a happy-hour residency at the...
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Friday 9/26 @ Crown Hall
This exhibition provides a thorough visual survey of Brazil's modern architecture. Photographs, drawings, and design concepts profile the work of well-established...
Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
Friday 9/26 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Rashid Johnson is one of the more promising young artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years, with photographs and sculptures...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea...
Friday 9/26 @ The Suburban
The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in...
Friday 9/26 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...
Friday 9/26 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
This loving elegy to one of the titans of queer cinema comes sandwiched between the June release of the Glitterbox set and...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Friday 9/26 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Luna Negra Dance Theater: Ciclos
Friday 9/26 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Ten years in, Luna Negra's dancers are what you might expect from Chicago's premier platform for Latino choreographers: versatile, sexy movers...
Friday 9/26 @ Hyde Park Art Center
For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and...
Friday 9/26 @ Chicago History Museum
With the polls showing a dead heat between Barack Obama and John McCain, the presidential debates promise to be a critical...
Friday 9/26 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist...
Friday 9/26 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Friday 9/26 @ Western Exhibitions
Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western...
Friday 9/26 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the...
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Friday 9/26 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists...
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
Friday 9/26 @ Normal Projects
Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by...
Friday 9/26 @ Music Box Theatre
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen...
Friday 9/26 @ Graham Foundation
Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a...
Friday 9/26 @ 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...
