Events on Tuesday, October 6
Conversation in the Arts: Biz Stone
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Film Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago
Meet one of the minds behind Twitter this evening as Biz Stone discusses today's global media landscape and his start-up's past...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Vic Theatre
For a band that has withstood 25 years and — with its current, most recognizable lineup — recorded roughly half a...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Empty Bottle
Armed initially with just a mouthful of a name and buzz fed by online videos, Seattle's Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Art stimulates the mind, but the Museum of Contemporary Art gives the stomach something to enjoy, too. Every Tuesday through October,...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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,...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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....
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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....
Doodleganza: The Drawing Extravaganza
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
First Tuesday of the month, 6 pm Doodleganza: The Drawing Extravaganza A whimsical art party that unites artists of all skill...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
