Events on Friday, March 20
Friday 3/20 @ Debonair Social Club
Backlash is a bitch, and Fischerspooner have certainly endured their share. Whatever your take on the colorful performance troupe that became...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Roots & Culture
(Broadcast) television is dead. Long live (digital) television. Curator Eric Fleischauer has assembled The End of Analog, an exhibition at Roots...
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 3/20 @ Music Box Theatre
The Flaming Lips' emphasis on splendiferous spectacle and good-natured weirdness is potent enough that a critic recently questioned if it might...
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Friday 3/20 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Loaded: Hunting Culture in America
Friday 3/20 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Hunting is one of our country's semi-submerged traditions, stretching well beyond the red states. Gathering a varied group of insiders, outside...
Friday 3/20 @ Storefront Theater
Interweaving the diverse voices of more than 40 characters, this stage production of playwright Robin Soans's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook offers an...
Friday 3/20 @ 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...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
In a time of creeping horrors like war, recession, terrorism and Bernie Madoff, there's perverse satisfaction to be gleaned from a...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Phaiz
Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti...
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Friday 3/20 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In adjacent exhibitions, Stephen Daiter Gallery reunites Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, two master photographers who became friends in the early...
Friday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ The Art Center in Highland Park
Curated by Olga Stefan, former Executive Director of the Chicago Artists' Coalition, this group exhibition focuses on the fleeting nature of...
Friday 3/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Equal parts history lesson, tabloid sensation, and Baroque spectacle, Monsters and Prodigies elucidates and parodies the 18th-century phenomenon of castrati —...
Friday 3/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Buckminster Fuller was a man of vision and contradiction. The twentieth-century architect and inventor was well ahead of his time, yet...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 3/20 @ 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...
