Events on Friday, November 20
Friday 11/20 @ The Empty Bottle
DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) is not the type of selector to sit back and wait for promo copies of music in...
V103 Presents 'Ladies Only' with BRIAN MCKNIGHT & KEVON EDMONDS (FREE!)
Friday 11/20 @ The Shrine
The Shrine is proud to host V103's "Ladies Only" concert with Brian McKnight and Kevon Edmonds. The fellas are welcome, too....
Friday 11/20 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place at Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston. French piano virtuoso Hugues Leclère performs more than 50...
Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble
Friday 11/20 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place in Regenstein Recital Hall, 60 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Frederick L. Hemke, Sean Patayanikorn, and...
Friday 11/20 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Black is the story of a blind,...
Keyboard Conversations: Chopin the Patriot
Friday 11/20 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Listen to the dance! Hear heroic polonaises and vivacious waltzes – as well as invigorating yet...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Friday 11/20 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Carnival Nocturne is a colorful and engaging, if uneven, production about a cursed traveling circus, complete with fortune tellers and Siamese...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 —...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Lakeshore Theater
Like Mitch Hedberg before him, Canadian comic Glenn Wool disarms you with his Spicoli-esque, easygoing vibes — which makes his pitch-perfect...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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,"...
Friday 11/20 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Friday 11/20 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Visual Acoustics, a new documentary about the late architectural photographer Julius Shulman, speaks both to his largely unsurpassed talents and his...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Friday 11/20 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 11/20 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Friday 11/20 @ EBERSMOORE
Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
The ninth installment of this Public Media Institute-supported festival is once again filled with experimental art, music, and video — as...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 11/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Friday 11/20 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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....
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Chopin Theatre
Not for the faint of heart, Aunt Dan and Lemon ruthlessly examines the worst of human nature and comes to the...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Friday 11/20 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Opera: The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Friday 11/20 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson Street, Evanston. Music by Gioachino Rossini; Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Jay...
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Friday 11/20 @ 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....
Friday 11/20 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Exit Strategy: New Works by Jesse LeDoux
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 11/20 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
