Events on Friday, May 7
Friday 5/ 7 @ Griffin Court at the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing
The fashion department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a strong creative and market force in the...
Ongoing Events
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
On the heels of How Theater Failed America, his deft, devastating monologue about the collapse of American theatre's economy and the...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Redmoon: Cape & Squiggle and Laika's Coffin
Friday 5/ 7 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
On the heels of Redmoon's revival of Cabinet — their beloved, charmingly bizarre retelling of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari —...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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....
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Friday 5/ 7 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 7 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Friday 5/ 7 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Banners & Cranks: a festival of cantastoria , Brand New Stuff
Friday 5/ 7 @ Links Hall
Three weekends exploring the performance of paintings through song and story. Weekend Two, April 30-May 2 Fri & Sat...
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 5/ 7 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Friday 5/ 7 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ American Theater Company
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Friday 5/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 5/ 7 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Beautiful Miasma: New Work by Jimmy Pickering
Friday 5/ 7 @ 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...
