Events on Friday, November 6

Basement Jaxx w/ MSTRKRFT and Modeselektor

Music: DJ

Basement Jaxx

Friday 11/ 6 @ Congress Theater

After three bona fide masterpieces, a near-perfect singles comp, and a mountain of accolades, Basement Jaxx still keep making records like... 

The Whigs w/ The Features and the Dead Trees

Music

The Whigs

Friday 11/ 6 @ Bottom Lounge

Athens, Georgia's the Whigs are proud torchbearers of the bash-and-pop tradition. Like the Living Things (minus the revolutionary pretension), there's a... 

Cool It Carol!

Film

Cool It Carol!

Friday 11/ 6 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

 “A beautiful thing happened throughout the world in the late... 

Viva

Film

Viva

Friday 11/ 6 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

 Inspired as much by 1970s advertisements... 

Ongoing Events

Elizabeth Murray

Art

Elizabeth Murray

Friday 11/ 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... 

Daria Martin: <em>Minotaur</em>

Art

Daria Martin: Minotaur

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>On the Scene</em>: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Pl&ouml;ger, and Zoe Strauss

Art: Photography

Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss

Friday 11/ 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... 

Susie Essman

Comedy

Susie Essman

Friday 11/ 6 @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub

Comedienne Susie Essman is of course most recognizable today as the scene-stealing, expletive-hurling Susie Greene in Curb Your Enthusiasm; but it's... 

Allan Sekula: <em>Polonia and Other Fables</em>

Art: Photography

Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Carpenters Halloween</em>

Party: Halloween

Carpenters Halloween

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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... 

Rob Carter: <em>Stone on Stone</em>

Art

Rob Carter

Friday 11/ 6 @ EBERSMOORE

Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre

Jersey Boys

Friday 11/ 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... 

CJ Pyle: <em>Kilroy's Delight</em>

Art

CJ Pyle: Kilroy's Delight

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>America: All Better!</em>

Comedy

America: All Better!

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture</em>

Art: Photography

Reversed Images

Friday 11/ 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,... 

<em>Freaks & Flash</em>

Art

Freaks & Flash

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</em>

Theatre

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Friday 11/ 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... 

Zarina Bhimji: <em>Out of Blue</em>

Art

Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue

Friday 11/ 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... 

Baby Wants Candy

Comedy

Baby Wants Candy

Friday 11/ 6 @ Apollo Theater

Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... 

Liam Gillick: <em>Three perspectives and a short scenario</em>

Art

Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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: <em>Challenging Vision</em>

Art: Photography

Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>

Special Event

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

Friday 11/ 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,... 

David Corbett: <em>Change Makes It New</em>

Art

David Corbett: Change Makes It New

Friday 11/ 6 @ 65GRAND

David Corbett has shown his paintings at 65GRAND before, but the enamel-dipped sculptures in his latest outing are a new addition.... 

<em>Fake</em>

Theatre

Fake

Friday 11/ 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... 

SOFA Chicago 2009

Art: Happening

SOFA Chicago 2009

Friday 11/ 6 @ Navy Pier

Now in its 16th year, the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair once again brings together emerging artists from around the... 

<em>Heartland</em>

Art

Heartland

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)</em>

Theatre

Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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... 

Jeremy Deller: <em>It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq</em>

Art

Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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... 

Dave Attell

Comedy

Dave Attell

Friday 11/ 6 @ Lakeshore Theater

Just as Howard Stern's nonpareil interviewing skills are overshadowed by his notorious shock-jock style, so is Dave Attell's comedic brilliance often... 

James Castle: A Retrospective

Art

James Castle

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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,"... 

<em>Iran Inside Out: Homeland and Diaspora in Contemporary Iranian Art</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Friday 11/ 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... 

<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>

Comedy

Studs Terkel's Not Working

Friday 11/ 6 @ 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... 

Jan Tichy: Installations

Art

Jan Tichy

Friday 11/ 6 @ Richard Gray Gallery

Call it populist schadenfreude, but there's something spectacular about an artist taking over a floor of the John Hancock building where... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

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Prairie Avenue House Museums

Friday 11/ 6 @ Glessner House Museum

Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... 

<em>Chicago Model City</em>

Art

Chicago Model City

Friday 11/ 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... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Friday 11/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... 

Art

Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape

Friday 11/ 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.... 

Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men

Art

Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men

Friday 11/ 6 @ Rotofugi

Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros... 

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Special Event

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Friday 11/ 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... 

Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Friday 11/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... 

The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum

Art

The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum

Friday 11/ 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"

Art

Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"

Friday 11/ 6 @ Renaissance Society

The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...