Events on Friday, August 21
Public Works Speaker Series: Chris Eichenseer, Jason Teegarden-Downs, and Justin Fines
Friday 8/21 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Part exhibition, part creative lecture series, Public Works is both a chance to see great, tastemaking design and to explore its broader...
Friday 8/21 @ Schubas
When Neil Hamburger bills himself as "America's $1 Funnyman," he's inviting audiences to stay away, knowing they'll come back for more....
Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary
Friday 8/21 @ The Empty Bottle
It's your standard story: college freshman launches tastemaking record label out of Michigan dorm room. (All right, maybe it's not.) You've...
Sneaker Pimps: The World's Largest Sneaker Show feat. Clipse
Friday 8/21 @ Metro
Now in its seventh year, Sneaker Pimps remains the premier tour of sneaker art. All the favorite models of kicks are...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Friday 8/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Links Hall
A weird all-ages vs. 18-plus dichotomy has played out in many artists' careers: Ice Cube went from "Straight Outta Compton" to...
Friday 8/21 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Friday 8/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ AMC River East 21
Overturning the usual alien invasion scenario, District 9 recasts a million extraterrestrial visitors as refugees, confined to a slum in Johannesburg....
Friday 8/21 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 8/21 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ White Big Top
Not all road-show extravaganzas that play huge tents in the West Loop are Cirque du Soleil shows. For example, Cavalia, a...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Friday 8/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
MP3 II presents works by three Midwest-based photographers, their divergent approaches united by the transformative nature of their pieces. Curtis Mann...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Friday 8/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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...
