Events on Thursday, July 16
Thursday 7/16 @ Chicago Cultural Center
The Freedom Museum's new Smart Mouth program brings together quick-witted intellectuals, activists, journalists, and other local power brokers for spirited panel...
Gig Posters Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century
Thursday 7/16 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Chicago has nurtured a thriving screen-printing scene for years, while also serving as home base for several A-list music-poster artists (Jay...
Thursday 7/16 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Chicago's most venerable theatrical comedy troupe restages cinema's hammiest moments for Legend of the Neo-Futurarium. Having already decimated Rotten Tomatoes bottom-feeders...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Various locations
We may never know what a teenaged Shakespeare's rhymes were like, but we can find out what this generation's most talented...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Thursday 7/16 @ Believe Inn
David Horvitz draws inspiration from "rabble-rousers, mischief makers, saboteurs," and other kinds of rascally figures, and his retooled version of '60s-style...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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...
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Thursday 7/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bravado to muse on the title's double...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
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Thursday 7/16 @ Tony Wight Gallery
A crop of painting-focused group shows has sprouted in the West Loop this summer. While you'll find some appealing works in...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Famous for sensational thrillers like Point Break, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow stakes a new claim as a serious-minded action auteur with The...
Thursday 7/16 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
Thursday 7/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. (1966) was shown once in the United States, at the 1967 New York Film Festival, after...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
