Events on Thursday, April 9
Bird's Nest: Herzog and de Meuron in China
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Chicago Cultural Center
The extraordinary creation of the Beijing Olympic Stadium is captured in Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindheim's documentary Bird's Nest: Herzog &...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ The Empty Bottle
The smoothness of French popster Sebastien Tellier's sound simultaneously alludes to art-rockers like the Moody Blues and light 'n kitschy electronica...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Mess Hall
Chicago's history is ripe with singular moments, but one of the more amazing — the rise of "hobohemia," a revolutionary hobo...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power...
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Richard Gray Gallery
In his more extravagant moments, Marc Swanson hones a style that one might call "glam hunting lodge": think of the artist...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Civic Opera House
In just over a decade, Andrew Bird has transitioned from swing revivalist with the Squirrel Nut Zippers to solo indie pop...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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,...
Loaded: Hunting Culture in America
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
