Events on Friday, June 5
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Family Room
It's not often we'll include someone's birthday party on Flavorpill, but it's not often an artist mounts a solo show to...
Hal Niedzviecki: The Peep Diaries
Friday 6/ 5 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Facebook, blogging, Twitter, Flickr — revealing intimate details of our lives to strangers is (for some) as much a part of...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/ 5 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Goodman Theatre
Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Friday 6/ 5 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
In the early part of the decade, black metal attracted a heap of prurient rubbernecking thanks to books like Lords of...
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
Friday 6/ 5 @ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ Northwestern University, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center
Molly Shanahan's 2007 solo production My Name is a Blackbird — recently revived to acclaim for a run at New York's...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection
Friday 6/ 5 @ 65GRAND
Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
