Events on Friday, January 8
Netherland/Kouri Opening Reception
Friday 1/ 8 @ Rotofugi
Join us for the opening reception for two new exhibits...both by Chicago-based collage artists! In Stereo
New...
Winter Chamber Music Festival: featuring the Evanston Chamber Ensemble
Friday 1/ 8 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Featuring celebrated musicians such as Andrea Swan, piano; Blair Milton, violin (pictured); and Stephen Balderston, cello (The Evanston Chamber Ensemble), along...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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 1/ 8 @ Renaissance Society
Moscow-born, Yale-trained artist Anna Shteynshleyger's austere images belie a host of influences. Her large, arresting photographs of the Siberian countryside are...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Various Chicago theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Linda Warren Gallery
The art of Juan Angel Chavez is like a collage of a forgotten side of Chicago, bringing fragments of the streets...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Friday 1/ 8 @ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the early '90s, the Norwegian black-metal scene gained international notoriety following a series of grisly acts committed by some of...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 1/ 8 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Antena
Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Gallery 400
Mathew Paul Jinks' film The Queen's Tailor, which ran earlier this year at Green Lantern Gallery, used the classic Ealing farce...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Rotofugi
Linder Sterling's punk collages meet Paul Pope's Playboy groove in David van Alphen's exhibit at Rotofugi. Under glistening acrylic resin, big-collared,...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
In Aberration #8, one of Adam Ekberg's signature images, concentric circles of light flood the frame, suggesting a metaphysical order while...
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Green Mill
Founded five years ago by veteran musician/composer Rob Mazurek for a performance at the new concert hall in Millennium Park, Exploding...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Friday 1/ 8 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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 1/ 8 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Various locations
Chicago can be tough on a new year's resolution: there's a tacqueria (or an Old Style sign) on every corner, the...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Friday 1/ 8 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Lakeshore Theater
It's a time-honored tradition that Chicago's best young standup comedians leave our shores to move up the industry ladder in coastal...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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...
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Friday 1/ 8 @ Stage 773
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival began nine years ago when producer Brian Posen booked a six-week run at the Theatre Building...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Think night on the town meets playing in the mud. Every 2nd Friday of the month join us for a late...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 1/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Friday 1/ 8 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
