Events on Friday, July 16
Friday 7/16 @ Smart Museum of Art
Consider how mid-century modern design helped brand the West and East during the Cold War. This free lunch-hour talk will be...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/16 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Starring comic musician Mike O'Connell as K. Roth Binew, The Living Wake tells the story of an obnoxious intellectual as he...
Friday 7/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Concurrent with her first monograph of the same name, Paula McCartney's show Birdwatching features a provocative series of beautifully composed, lush...
Friday 7/16 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 7/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
The influential American conceptual artist John Baldessari — gadfly to contemporary art theory and master of image-text paintings — is represented...
Friday 7/16 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Don't just live with less; make art with less. Jason Middlebrook, a pioneer of sustainability art, has focused in the past...
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett
Friday 7/16 @ threewalls
threewalls says: This July and August threewalls again hosts their summer residency, this year in conjunction with the Studio Chicago programming....
Friday 7/16 @ Peregrine Program
Fresh off a stacked, Brion Gysin-nodding collaborative performance in Brooklyn that also included work by Scott Treleaven and Genesis P-Orridge, Terence...
Friday 7/16 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Friday 7/16 @ Mortville
Something of a Slumdance to Pitchfork's Sundance, the weekend-long B*tchpork Festival returns this year with scores of deeper-underground acts to match...
Friday 7/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Near the end of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo -- a mesmerizing film-essay documentary about Japan's enduring love affair with bugs --...
Friday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
A spectacular lineup, ranging from emerging artists to Chicago institutions, graces this summer group exhibition at Thomas Robertello Gallery, where the...
Friday 7/16 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
A Parallelogram, the final play in one of Steppenwolf's strongest seasons in recent years, pairs longtime Steppenwolf collaborator, actor, and playwright...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Friday 7/16 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
This AIC exhibition charts the wild terrain of the Chicago post-war art scene — the adverse eccentrics, stylists, and self-taught artists...
Friday 7/16 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute's mashup of art and music through a wide grouping of photo and video is an untidy combination —...
Friday 7/16 @ MCA Chicago
The first week of the MCA's returning Here/Not Here series opens with Club Nutz, a tiny mobile nightclub dubbed "the world's...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Friday 7/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the MCA's latest exhibit, an astutely chosen collection of works on paper depict exaggerated conflict, addressing various allegorical, emblematic, and...
Friday 7/16 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit's new Peter Anton show provides a productive and evocative foil for the museum's overlapping show of drawings by Charles Steffen,...
Friday 7/16 @ Angel Island
Storefront-theatre company Mary-Arrchie consistently delivers provocative, innovative work. Their latest, the Midwest premiere of a show originally concocted by Austin's Rule...
Friday 7/16 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 7/16 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Epic in scale and addressing issues that in other hands could have become sanctimonious — deforestation, advertising speak — Lora Fosberg's...
Friday 7/16 @ Various Chicago locations
Whether you seek to avoid the Union Park throngs, desire an indie-rock double shot, or simply want to catch some of...
Friday 7/16 @ Chicago Urban Art Society
In Sweet Tea, Ray Noland reminds us once again that overtly political art can still be fresh and vigorous, not to...
Friday 7/16 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago Imagist Roger Brown is perhaps nearly as famous in Chicago now as a collector of art, particularly for the Roger...
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen
Friday 7/16 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
In many ways a beau ideal figure of "outsider art," Charles Steffen studied art at IIT before suffering a mental breakdown...
Friday 7/16 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
A picture may not lie, but that doesn't mean it tells the full story. Proof, a group exhibition the Catherine Edelman...
Friday 7/16 @ Various Chicago locations
It's the 100-year anniversary of Ox-Bow, the art school and artists' residency in Michigan; and to celebrate the centennial, there are...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Friday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Various Chicago locations
If it weren't for a little lady named Lisbeth Salander, and her creator Stieg Larsson, Americans might forever think of Sweden...
Friday 7/16 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
16th Street Theater, now in its third season, keeps proving its robustness and strong eye for talent and collaboration — it's...
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Friday 7/16 @ MCA Chicago
The Alexander Calder exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art tries to reposition the artist's legacy. The selections from Calder's work...
Friday 7/16 @ Johalla Projects
In conjunction with the new, Yeti-published book of the same title, Art of Touring showcases a bevy of strong (non-musical) art...
Friday 7/16 @ Union Park
Hear ye, indie fans. The kingmakers are holding court. Pitchfork Music Festival returns this weekend, regaling us subjects with another princely...
Friday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit says: This retrospective features 30 pieces of Charles Steffen's work, covering a variety of imagery he knew in his limited...
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Daniel Albrigo
Friday 7/16 @ Western Exhibitions
The fact that Genesis P-Orridge had his teeth removed and replaced with gold casts — the act which inspired this exhibit...
Friday 7/16 @ Music Box Theatre
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Friday 7/16 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Based on cast and crew alone, Victory Gardens' A Guide for the Perplexed is perhaps the most anticipated show of the...
Friday 7/16 @ The Second City
Does the title of this sketch comedy show refer to the cast or the audience? The answer, of course, is both....
Land Without End and Other Works by Theo Leffmann
Friday 7/16 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
The fiber art of Chicagoan Theo Leffmann (1911–1996) evokes the ancient and the exotic, echoing pre-Columbian and non-Western processes and forms...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 7/16 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 7/16 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Friday 7/16 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Friday 7/16 @ Chicago History Museum
A new costume exhibition shows the colorful history of wedding attire! I Do! presents 45 dresses, plus accessories, corsets, men's attire,...
New Sculptures, Paintings and Photography by Coarse
Friday 7/16 @ Rotofugi
Works for the coarse world began in 2003, when German artists Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk started a distinct style of...
Friday 7/16 @ Auditorium Theatre
FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery. Featuring mind-blowing visual effects...
Friday 7/16 @ 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...
Friday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Smart Museum of Art
Mid-Century: "Good Design" in Europe and America, 1850–1950 Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday...
