Events on Wednesday, May 12
Wednesday 5/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Kudos to Cinema/Chicago and the Cultural Center for shedding new light on Madame Satã, Karim Ainouz's largely forgotten biopic of João...
John Corigliano Composition Master Class
Wednesday 5/12 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
John Corigliano is celebrated for his compositions in over 100 chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral works. His style has been called...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/12 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
George Grosz, brutal caricaturist of the Weimar Republic and important member of Dada and New Objectivity in 1920s Germany, emigrated in...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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....
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Western Exhibitions
John Parot's multimedia works on paper are a self-described "poetic investigation into urban gay living," where the artist mainly focuses on...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Allison Schulnik's trademark exaggerated impasto approach to painting — as sculptural as it is pictorial — finds a macabre and haunting...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Polish Museum of America
To counter popular beliefs about the recent retrograde nature of the Polish poster, artists Piotr Kunce and Monika Nowak curated the...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottish company Visible Fictions makes theatre for young people that's engaging for adults, as well, especially noted for their complex performances...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
When a Modern Wing museumgoer accidentally stepped on Robert Smithson's floor-displayed Chalk-Mirror Displacement last month, jokes about the artist's pet themes...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Renowned writer and artist Romare Bearden's profuse output came from his work as an oil painter, cartoonist, art editor, costume designer...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Wednesday 5/12 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
AIC says: The world is an exciting and frightening place for a young child. It's fun to make a new friend,...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. With nine cute, floppy...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Images from Venice, China, Cairo, and elsewhere, spanning the last 30 years of Michael Kenna's work, correspond to a retrospective of...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Western Exhibitions
Rachel Niffenegger's sculptures and paintings of disintegrated human heads create a kind of surrealist, horror-movie portrait gallery. Assembled busts reference classical...
Wednesday 5/12 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about Thierry Guetta, a graffiti stalker who chronicled Shepard Fairey and other key...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In a city full of characters, Vincent Falk might be our most recognizable eccentric. Even if you don't recognize the name,...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Steve Krakow's (aka Plastic Crimewave) exhibition at the MCA 12x12 features a selection of drawings, posters, and ephemera from Krakow's ongoing...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Wednesday 5/12 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Writers' Theatre
For live theatre, it's about as close to a no-fail combination as you can get: critically acclaimed director David Cromer, known...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Smart Museum of Art
Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story In early 1947, a fire ripped through the one-room attic of a tenement building on...
Beautiful Miasma: New Work by Jimmy Pickering
Wednesday 5/12 @ Rotofugi
Stints with both Disney and Universal Studios mean you've probably seen Jimmy Pickering's art before, or maybe you've enjoyed his illustrations...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
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Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Wednesday 5/12 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Wednesday 5/12 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Wednesday 5/12 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Wednesday 5/12 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Wednesday 5/12 @ The Shrine
Brazilian Funk returns to The Shrine for the month of February! DJs FLX and David Pardo will spin the Latin Spectrum...
Wednesday 5/12 @ 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...
