Events on Tuesday, November 3
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Max Palevsky Cinema
The works of Nick Zedd and Lizzie Borden, by our account, represent the apex of Lower East Side post-punk cinema, but...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Park West
Playing for Change is more than a band, and more than a documentary-film project, too — it's also an activist peace...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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,"...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
The Yes Men's new documentary chronicles the subversive duo's elaborate, politically progressive hoaxes. Using cheap suits, aliases, and "straight" talk, Andy...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
Guatemalan expat Alfred Jensen, writer-turned-artist Charmion von Wiegand, and quizzical patternist Simon Gouverneur are the subject of Back to the Future,...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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 11/ 3 @ 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....
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Doodleganza: The Drawing Extravaganza
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
First Tuesday of the month, 6 pm Doodleganza: The Drawing Extravaganza A whimsical art party that unites artists of all skill...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ 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
Tuesday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
