Events on Tuesday, April 13
Tuesday 4/13 @ MCA Chicago
Photographer and multimedia artist Daniel Everett makes work that teases out and re-imagines the implications technology has for social and personal...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Doc Films
This surreal gem of a nouvelle vague film is difficult to find, but well worth the all-region hunt and/or revival wait....
Tuesday 4/13 @ Harold Washington Library
For too long, Obama bios were either hagiographies or hatchet jobs and never the twain did meet. Even in Gwen Ifill's...
Poetry Off the Shelf: Cave Canem Fellows Indigo Moor, Roger Bonair-Agard, and Kelly Norman-Smith
Tuesday 4/13 @ Poetry Foundation
Jazz Showcase
806 South Plymouth Court
Dearborn Station Indigo Moor’s second collection, Through the Stonecutter’s Window, is...
Ongoing Events
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Tuesday 4/13 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
Highly textured layers of impasto animate the dynamic subjects in James Olley's paintings, which tackle suburbia as their subject. Luckily, Olley...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
No better excuse to clear the dust bunnies from a collection of old favorites than to put together a best-of show....
Tuesday 4/13 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Blaming Ed Paschke for Jeff Koons makes about as much sense as blaming Nietzsche for Mussolini. Regardless of how one responds...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Tuesday 4/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that...
Tuesday 4/13 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
Carl Hammer's featured artist at Art Chicago 2010, David Sharpe creates paintings on various scales that effectively represent the gallery's promotion...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Tuesday 4/13 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Tuesday 4/13 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Tuesday 4/13 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,...
My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done
Tuesday 4/13 @ Music Box Theatre
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Tuesday 4/13 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Tuesday 4/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Exploring issues of security in a time of terror, Sarah Pickering's MoCP survey show, Incident Control, draws upon her vivid, disquieting...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Teen Dream: New Works by Jon Knox (Hello, Brute)
Tuesday 4/13 @ Rotofugi
Teen Dream
New Work by Jon Knox aka Hello, Brute April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010,...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Tuesday 4/13 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
Garden of Light: New Works by APAK
Tuesday 4/13 @ Rotofugi
Garden of Light
New Work by APAK April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7-10PM...
Tuesday 4/13 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
Tuesday 4/13 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit kicks off its 2010 season with The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. A Savannah barber, Davis spent his free time carving...
