Events on Friday, September 11
Friday 9/11 @ Ronny's Bar
Fresh out of high school and too young for booze, Chicago's own Smith Westerns combine classic power pop with the innocence...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/11 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil...
Friday 9/11 @ 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...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Friday 9/11 @ Gallery 400
Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello...
Friday 9/11 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 9/11 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the...
Friday 9/11 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
Directoire-era France, studies on psychosis, and Henri Michaux's mescaline trips all collided in dancer Jonathan Meyer's research. The result: three characters,...
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 9/11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
You can imagine it started with a big idea: get three guitar gods in the same room and let them talk...
Friday 9/11 @ 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...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Friday 9/11 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Ulrich Seidl spends his time like many dedicated biologists, rooting around in the Earth's cesspools in search of life's truths and...
Friday 9/11 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Friday 9/11 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Friday 9/11 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Friday 9/11 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,...
Friday 9/11 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Rotofugi
Kaiju cultists have about 70 reasons to celebrate as Toy Karma II unveils another overstuffed exhibition of Japanese toys and art...
Friday 9/11 @ 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....
Molly Springfield: Translation
Friday 9/11 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Layered acts of translation, both linguistic and visual, drive Molly Springfield's latest project. First the artist photocopied every page of the...
Friday 9/11 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Friday 9/11 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Friday 9/11 @ 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...
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Friday 9/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
How would CUFF celebrate My Super Sweet 16? It would probably include a bathtub full of swill beer, an abandoned warehouse,...
Friday 9/11 @ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Friday 9/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Believers in the classic power of large-scale oil painting, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois work collaboratively to give the venerable art...
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Daley Bicentennial Plaza
If you heard about a big summertime brouhaha in Grant Park featuring hundreds of things to eat and drink, plus celebrity...
Friday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Friday 9/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 9/11 @ 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...
