Events on Thursday, April 15
Thursday 4/15 @ Double Door
When Little Brother MC Phonte first collaborated with a little-known Dutch producer named Nicolay through the Internet in 2004, listeners saw...
Thursday 4/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Filmmaker and artist Ryan Trecartin is present on Thursday to discuss several recent short films — part of an epic series...
Thursday 4/15 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Typeface Director Justine Nagan in person
(Justine Nagan, 2009, USA, video, 58 minutes)
Once an industry leader for...
Lecture: The Darker Side of Light
Thursday 4/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
Join Peter Parshall, Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art and an alumnus of the University of...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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....
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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
Thursday 4/15 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Thursday 4/15 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Thursday 4/15 @ 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
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Thursday 4/15 @ Western Exhibitions
Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series...
Thursday 4/15 @ Various Chicago locations
The burlesque revival has been dancing and stripping unabated for a few years now, but if there seems to be a...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Thursday 4/15 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Thursday 4/15 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Garden of Light: New Works by APAK
Thursday 4/15 @ Rotofugi
Garden of Light
New Work by APAK April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7-10PM...
Thursday 4/15 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Thursday 4/15 @ 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...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 4/15 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 4/15 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf's Visiting Company Initiative is pleased to present Garage Rep, three productions from some of Chicago's most innovative theatre companies, presented...
Thursday 4/15 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Teen Dream: New Works by Jon Knox (Hello, Brute)
Thursday 4/15 @ Rotofugi
Teen Dream
New Work by Jon Knox aka Hello, Brute April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010,...
