Events on Thursday, April 2
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In his self-made short films, Britain's Ben Rivers hovers along the fringes of contemporary society, creating expressive portraits of hermetic worlds...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Metro
The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to his groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Outhouse of the Apocalypse
Located in the deepest reaches of Devendra Banhart's wet dreams, the freak-folk forest's famed fridge is the best place to keep...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
In her previous paintings, Angelina Gualdoni depicted modern-day ruins with a mix of naturalistic detail and hazy atmospherics. Her latest exhibition,...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Loaded: Hunting Culture in America
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Various locations
The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Auditorium Theatre
Recently anointed American Cultural Ambassador to the World by Congress, Alvin Ailey's venerable institution celebrates half a century with a world...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Royal George Theatre Center
A classic farce as broad and French as the Seine, Don't Dress for Dinner is a manic amalgam of mistaken identity,...
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In adjacent exhibitions, Stephen Daiter Gallery reunites Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, two master photographers who became friends in the early...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Smart Museum of Art
A remarkable artist with a sensibility all his own, H.C. Westermann pursued themes of love, death, and catastrophe in his works...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Andrea Miller, founder of New York's Gallim Dance, kneads the vision of mentor Ohad Naharin into the idiosyncrasies of her aggressive,...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 4/ 2 @ 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...
