Events on Monday, August 30
Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Howard Finster
Monday 8/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Flavorpill Chicago's Deputy Editor, Monica Westin, who has also extensively surveyed outsider/self-taught artists for the Huffington Post and New City, discusses...
Ongoing Events
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Monday 8/30 @ Music Box Theatre
Chronicling the rapid rise and fall of celebrated painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tamra Davis' compelling documentary moves to a spirited soundtrack by...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Carrie Schneider: Photography & Video
Monday 8/30 @ Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art
Chicago and Brooklyn-based artist Carrie Schneider has built a quietly wondrous body of work, and her latest show continues her interest...
Black Harvest International Festival
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center
Gahlberg Gallery says: This installation draws upon the ecological effects of vibration and the history of sonic warfare. At root is...
Monday 8/30 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
The influential American conceptual artist John Baldessari — gadfly to contemporary art theory and master of image-text paintings — is represented...
Monday 8/30 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Is there a Chicago art style? It's a question that the Hyde Park Art Center has sought to answer since Don...
Monday 8/30 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Following his mother's heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) is unwittingly thrust into the core of a criminal underworld...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Howard Finster, often described as one of the most important folk artists of the 20th century, was an "outsider" artist whose...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Monday 8/30 @ 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,...
Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett
Monday 8/30 @ threewalls
threewalls says: This July and August threewalls again hosts their summer residency, this year in conjunction with the Studio Chicago programming....
Monday 8/30 @ 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,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 8/30 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
