Events on Friday, May 14
Friday 5/14 @ Columbia College Chicago
Manifest's annual showcase is a resourceful vehicle for displaying a remarkable mix of performances and presentations from nearly every level and...
Friday 5/14 @ FitzGerald's
The Knitters' 1985 country-punk debut Poor Little Critter on the Road belongs to the same history of bizarrely influential novelties as...
Friday 5/14 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Cobra Woman
(Robert Siodmak, 1944, USA, 35mm, 71 minutes)
Beloved by avant-garde filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith,...
Closing Reception: The Treasure of Ulysses Davis
Friday 5/14 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Please join Intuit for The Treasure of Ulysses Davis closing reception. Don't miss your last chance to see this amazing...
Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band
Friday 5/14 @ 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
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
The name Cattywampus perfectly captures Seattle artist Rich Lehl’s surreal narrative paintings. They combine elements of the subconscious and the mysterious...
Friday 5/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Known primarily as a photographer and video artist, Shirin Neshat's powerful work has explored the realities of gender-segregation and social injustice...
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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....
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Allison Schulnik's trademark exaggerated impasto approach to painting — as sculptural as it is pictorial — finds a macabre and haunting...
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Friday 5/14 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
In between, You and I, there is space all around us is the appropriate title of Junko Yamamoto's show at EC...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Friday 5/14 @ 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,...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Friday 5/14 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 5/14 @ Music Box Theatre
Leading up to Human Centipede's limited-run opening on April 30, more than one headline ran with some variation on the question,...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Links Hall
Presented by Taurista Artists
Featuring choreographers Kish Jackson and Baron L. Clay, Jr. Kish...
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Friday 5/14 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
