Events on Thursday, November 19
Thursday 11/19 @ University of Chicago Social Sciences Building
Although her short-story/prose-poetry collection The Most of It (2008) garnered high marks from The Onion and The Believer, among others, poet...
Thursday 11/19 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Like some hazy dream of a psychedelic gypsy circus, the Vagabond Opera are one of those acts that intrigue even the...
Thursday 11/19 @ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
Author John Brewer brings to light the often-ignored, but certainly lucrative world of art forgery with his new book, The American...
Thursday 11/19 @ Bottom Lounge
It seems like there are more shoegaze bands in 2009 than there were in 1987, but when a record like A...
Thursday 11/19 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Director Frank Ross also stars in this film about Buddy...
Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
Thursday 11/19 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Victor Goines and Christopher Madsen, conductors
Benny Carter’s Kansas City Suite: A program celebrating the music of Benny...
Gallery Talk: Robert Motherwell
Thursday 11/19 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Siri Engberg, curator of visual arts/prints and editions at the Walker Art Center, leads an in-depth tour of the exhibition...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Aragon Ballroom
It's often said that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's first album, but everyone who did started a band....
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
The performances shine in this incredible, consistently hysterical production from Court Theatre. Two actors at the top of their game —...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Carnival Nocturne is a colorful and engaging, if uneven, production about a cursed traveling circus, complete with fortune tellers and Siamese...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Thursday 11/19 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In last year's American Movie Critics anthology, Phillip Lopate made a successful argument for "film criticism as a branch of American...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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,"...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Music Box Theatre
Ti West's homage to the trashy occult horror films of the early '80s requires something rarely asked of contemporary horror film...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ EBERSMOORE
Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
The ninth installment of this Public Media Institute-supported festival is once again filled with experimental art, music, and video — as...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Thursday 11/19 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Thursday 11/19 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 11/19 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Hells Yeah! Let's Do It!: New Works by Veggiesomething
Thursday 11/19 @ Rotofugi
Chicago-based Veggiesomething is not only a talented character designer, he's a pretty awesome painter and graphic artist as well...and just happens...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 11/19 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Exit Strategy: New Works by Jesse LeDoux
Thursday 11/19 @ Rotofugi
Seattle-based Jesse LeDoux has a great almost old-school style that we just can't get enough of. Amazing use of color and...
