Events on Thursday, May 13
Thursday 5/13 @ SmartBar
Abstract Science says: Abstract Science and Fresh Kid are proud to present another twist on the subfix sound: a West-Coast-goes-Midwest-bass-heavy get...
Disturb the Universe: American Moderns Abroad and at Home
Thursday 5/13 @ Poetry Foundation
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
American artists such as Marsden...
Thursday 5/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Umberto D.
(Vittorio De Sica, 1952, Italy, 35mm, 89 minutes)
In De Sica’s neorealist classic, elderly pensioner Umberto D....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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
Thursday 5/13 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Thursday 5/13 @ The Second City e.t.c.
The electric defibrillator paddles that briefly appear onstage during the Second City e.t.c.'s new sketch revue are an apt metaphor for...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Allison Schulnik's trademark exaggerated impasto approach to painting — as sculptural as it is pictorial — finds a macabre and haunting...
Thursday 5/13 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Thursday 5/13 @ Prop Thtr
Jennifer Jajeh's critically acclaimed one-woman show comes to Chicago en route to Berkeley, after successful runs in New York (it debuted...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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
Thursday 5/13 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ The Neo-Futurarium
The Neo-Futurists' manner of theater-- dynamic, fast-paced, deeply interactive with the audience, and often a touch self-righteousness-- seems to be the...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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....
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Thursday 5/13 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Thursday 5/13 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Thursday 5/13 @ 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
Thursday 5/13 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 5/13 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Thursday 5/13 @ 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
Thursday 5/13 @ 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...
Thursday 5/13 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
