Events on Thursday, October 22
Writers on the Record: Sherman Alexie
Thursday 10/22 @ Harold Washington Library
Through his novels, short stories, and screenplays, Sherman Alexie has become adept at telling tales of hardship balanced with just the...
Steve Martin: An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo
Thursday 10/22 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
Most people would be content with any of Steve Martin's several transcendent careers. After his absurdist brand of standup comedy enjoyed...
Thursday 10/22 @ Heartland Cafe
Tonight's lit fest, presented by Chicago Public Radio and Stop Smiling, takes its name from Nelson Algren's eminently quotable description of...
Poetry Off the Shelf: Helen Vendler On Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy
Thursday 10/22 @ Poetry Foundation
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter...
Mumblecore Panel Discussion: Small Talk, Big Moments?
Thursday 10/22 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Mumblecore movies are inherently small. Their cast, crew, budget,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Thursday 10/22 @ American Theater Company
An unsurprisingly brainy and gratifying bio-historical musical from the writers of Urinetown, Yeast Nation re-imagines prehistoric Earth's primordial soup as an...
Thursday 10/22 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the...
Lucky Plush Productions: Punk Yankees
Thursday 10/22 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Encyclopedic knowledge of any subject being just a click away shows up in almost all art these days, whether implicitly or...
Thursday 10/22 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Thursday 10/22 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 10/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thursday 10/22 @ Writers' Theatre
Tom Stoppard's inventive, razor-sharp absurdist play imagines Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as offstage existential anti-heroes with no understanding of what play they're...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Thursday 10/22 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Thursday 10/22 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
Thursday 10/22 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
CJ Pyle's portraits, drawn in ballpoint pen and colored pencil on the inside of old LP sleeves, gather up the most...
Thursday 10/22 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Thursday 10/22 @ Music Box Theatre
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Thursday 10/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Jeremy Deller orchestrates public events and collaborative undertakings that bring different social issues into relief. His Battle of Orgreave, for...
Thursday 10/22 @ Mary's Attic
What do you get when you mix a schlock-horror cinema classic with a couple of cheesy, soft-rock icons? You get Carpenters...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-taught, working-outside-the-mainstream artists are an often-misunderstood phenomenon, if one considers the myriad terms that emphasize their otherness: "outsider," "visionary," "naïve," "folk,"...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Thursday 10/22 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Thursday 10/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Hu Yang's photograph Shanghai Living, a young Chinese man rests in his room, his surroundings hinting at concepts of individualism,...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Thursday 10/22 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled...
Thursday 10/22 @ Millennium Park
Perhaps a sign of these recessionary times, Chicago's version of Fashion Week has been chopped in half for its fifth year...
Thursday 10/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Goodman Theatre
Though best remembered as a Marx Brothers movie romp, Animal Crackers first appeared as the outrageous comedy team's 1928 Broadway smash....
Thursday 10/22 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
Thursday 10/22 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 10/22 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Thursday 10/22 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Thursday 10/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Thursday 10/22 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Thursday 10/22 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 10/22 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Thursday 10/22 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Thursday 10/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....
Thursday 10/22 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 10/22 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 10/22 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 10/22 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
