Events on Thursday, May 21
Thursday 5/21 @ Harold Washington Library
Despite an impressive string of vitriolic plays, monologues, and film scripts (Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, subUrbia, the Pulitzer-nominated Talk...
Thursday 5/21 @ Block Cinema
Sonic Celluloid — a joint production of Northwestern's Block Cinema and its campus-based radio station, WNUR — pairs under-the-radar bands with...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/21 @ The Goodman Theatre
Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
Thursday 5/21 @ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Rowley Kennerk Gallery
Gaylen Gerber's strategy is to play humble host and deft interlocutor at the same time. He invites other artists to include...
Thursday 5/21 @ The Renaissance Society
On April Fool's Day, an LTH Forum reader pranked the online foodie community with news on a Hot Doug's Celebrity Sausage...
Thursday 5/21 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Launched in storefronts and spare bedrooms, artist-run exhibition spaces have played a dynamic role in Chicago's creative life for years. Hyde...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Perhaps the greatest war epic ever put to film, Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition is a nine-hour rumination on the futility...
Thursday 5/21 @ DePaul Art Museum
Pairing a collection of small 19th-century photographs with larger works by contemporary artists, DePaul University's engaging group exhibition Double Exposure takes...
Thursday 5/21 @ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
Thursday 5/21 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Although the golden age of street photography may have passed, the genre didn't die with the likes of Garry Winogrand or...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Thursday 5/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Thursday 5/21 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Thursday 5/21 @ Salvage One
Nestled inside the labyrinthine West Loop antiques-and-architecture warehouse that is Salvage One, Of This Land: The Artist's Touch is a unique...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Thursday 5/21 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
