Events on Friday, November 6
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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
“A beautiful thing happened throughout the world in the late...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Inspired as much by 1970s advertisements...
Ongoing Events
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
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: 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....
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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,"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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
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"
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...
