Events on Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday 9/29 @ Harold Washington Library
With your Lehanes, Pelecanoses, and Prices spinning gritty ultra-realism into (deserved) critical glory, James Ellroy seems a little out-of-step with the...
MEET THE AUTHOR: Audrey Niffenegger
Tuesday 9/29 @ The Newberry Library
Audrey Niffenegger celebrates the launch of her new book, Her Fearful Symmetry. Hear the author of The Time Traveler's Wife talk...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/29 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Art stimulates the mind, but the Museum of Contemporary Art gives the stomach something to enjoy, too. Every Tuesday through October,...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Tuesday 9/29 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Hu Yang's photograph Shanghai Living, a young Chinese man rests in his room, his surroundings hinting at concepts of individualism,...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Tuesday 9/29 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tuesday 9/29 @ Writers' Theatre
Tom Stoppard's inventive, razor-sharp absurdist play imagines Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as offstage existential anti-heroes with no understanding of what play they're...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Tuesday 9/29 @ Gallery 400
Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Tuesday 9/29 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Tuesday 9/29 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Tuesday 9/29 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
