Events on Thursday, November 5
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Infusing video art with the spark of improv performance, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn make short works that are funny and...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ UIC Forum
They are probably the only living cartoonists who could headline the 3000-seat UIC Forum: the Simpsons, Futurama, and Life In Hell...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Bottom Lounge
As the singer of Mclusky, Andy "Falco" Falkous came across as the cleverest smart-ass in detention. But, up until now, his...
Disturb the Universe: Modernism across Europe
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Poetry Foundation
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission Poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound,...
The Short Films of Anna Biller and Work by Morgan Fisher and Paul McCarthy
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Tonight’s program juxtaposes Anna Biller’s short...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
The recent string of violent murders and beatings that have occurred in our city prompted CNN to run a story called...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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,"...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
