Events on Friday, February 20
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/20 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
One of the giants of post-war painting, Sigmar Polke is an irreverant experimentalist — an artist of many moves whose work...
Friday 2/20 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Friday 2/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Friday 2/20 @ 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 2/20 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
chelfitsch: Five Days in March
Friday 2/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Since 1997, Toshiki Okada has been creating dance/theatre works out of Japan; in 2005 he received the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama...
Friday 2/20 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Friday 2/20 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not...
Friday 2/20 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Friday 2/20 @ Lakeshore Theater
From time to time, an already polished standup comic elevates his game by moving from broad observational humor to more personal...
Friday 2/20 @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and...
Friday 2/20 @ Phaiz
Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti...
Friday 2/20 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Friday 2/20 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Friday 2/20 @ Various locations
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Friday 2/20 @ Walsh Gallery
In large mixed-media paintings, Von Kommanivanh skewers the lurking evils and cultural convulsions of the 21st century like a hopped-up shish-kabob...
Friday 2/20 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Choreographer Carrie Hanson has an eye for fashion as keen as her stage instincts. For eight years, her company, the Seldoms,...
Friday 2/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still...
Friday 2/20 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Friday 2/20 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely...
Friday 2/20 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
Friday 2/20 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Jason Robert Bell's last exhibition in Chicago featured paintings of a yeti-like alter-ego. Since then, the Brooklyn-based artist's oeuvre has both...
Friday 2/20 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Friday 2/20 @ The Goodman Theatre
Set on a rugged New England farm in 1850, Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms stacks up human passions like firewood...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Friday 2/20 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Friday 2/20 @ Roots & Culture
(Broadcast) television is dead. Long live (digital) television. Curator Eric Fleischauer has assembled The End of Analog, an exhibition at Roots...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Friday 2/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Friday 2/20 @ Tony Wight Gallery
However you want to describe them — stately busts for a post-marble age; eerie Frankenstein constructions; a poacher's trophies from the...
Friday 2/20 @ Various locations
As the recession puts a damper on your dining budget, the return of Chicago Restaurant Week grants you temporary respite from...
Friday 2/20 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming...
Friday 2/20 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 2/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Like a fever dream, Curtis Mann's bleached and altered found photographs seem to drift outside of time. The images often depict...
Friday 2/20 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
If your best friend spent a fortune on an all-white painting you hated, could you bite your tongue and praise it,...
Friday 2/20 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Cuban political artist and performer Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons' newest exhibition seeks to uncover hidden truths and secret knowledge with large-scale Polaroid...
Friday 2/20 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 2/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 2/20 @ 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...
