Events on Thursday, August 12
Thursday 8/12 @ Millennium Park
Explore Chicago says: Internationally acclaimed Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, continues his collaboration with Chicago's jazz community in a concert of...
Thursday 8/12 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Joey Comeau is best known for A Softer World, a still-running webcomic that, like Garfield Minus Garfield, found fame last decade...
Thursday 8/12 @ Adler Planetarium
Chicago chamber-music collective Fifth House Ensemble follow up their excellent Ezra Claytan Daniels collaboration, Black Violet, with another inspired pairing: Olivier...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/12 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Anyone with even a fleeting interest in photography should go see Henri Cartier-Bresson's retrospective at the Art Institute. Often heralded as...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
The influential American conceptual artist John Baldessari — gadfly to contemporary art theory and master of image-text paintings — is represented...
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett
Thursday 8/12 @ threewalls
threewalls says: This July and August threewalls again hosts their summer residency, this year in conjunction with the Studio Chicago programming....
Thursday 8/12 @ The Second City
Does the title of this sketch comedy show refer to the cast or the audience? The answer, of course, is both....
Thursday 8/12 @ 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....
Thursday 8/12 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Black Harvest International Festival
Thursday 8/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Siskel's 15th annual Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, devoted to the black experience on film, has the...
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Two of Chicago's central and most esteemed print institutions — also known for their community work and collaboration — present a...
Thursday 8/12 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Epic in scale and addressing issues that in other hands could have become sanctimonious — deforestation, advertising speak — Lora Fosberg's...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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 —...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ Richardson Adventure Farm
The Richardson Adventure is the largest, most intricate corn maze in the world. It's actually five separate mazes winding through 33...
Thursday 8/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Carrie Gundersdorf's drawings at the MCA's latest UBS 12 x 12 show combine the artist's formal and theoretical interest in the...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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
Thursday 8/12 @ 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,...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
In this followup to last year's success, local creatives Someoddpilot and the Andrew Rafacz gallery buddy up for a second round...
Thursday 8/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Howard Finster, often described as one of the most important folk artists of the 20th century, was an "outsider" artist whose...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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,...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Land Without End and Other Works by Theo Leffmann
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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,...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 8/12 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 8/12 @ 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...
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Thursday 8/12 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Thursday 8/12 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Thursday 8/12 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
