Events on Thursday, September 9
310 conTEMPORARY Gallery Opening
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Help celebrate the official opening of 310 conTEMPORARY Gallery, Chicago’s latest Pop-Up Art Loop Gallery, on Thursday, Sept. 9, from 5...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Millennium Park
Yeah, we're pretty festival'ed out at this point, too; but this late addition is impossible to resist. The debut Chicago...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ TimeLine Theatre
This critically acclaimed play (its Broadway and West End runs garnered dozens of awards from Drama Desks to Tonys) by Peter...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ DCA Theater
Emily Dendinger's play about the writing of Frankenstein brings to life the infamous group of Romantics living together in the Alps...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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,...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: India and Sri Lanka exhibit at Rhona Hoffman Gallery highlights the artist's recent explorations into regionalized...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Redmoon Theater and Artistic Director Frank Maugeri collaborate for the third time with the MCA Stage on The Astronaut's Birthday, a...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ EBERSMOORE
BC MacEachran's second solo exhibition at ebersmoore, The Big Gray Con, brings to mind a game of optical illusions. The longer...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Murderer Gary Gilmore does the Texas two-step, Master Masons experience spiritual transcendence in the Chrysler building, and satyrs compete in motorcycle...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ Gallery 400
San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco's show at UIC's Gallery 400 is an insightful exploration of the current dual zeitgeists in contemporary...
Carrie Schneider: Photography & Video
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Media artist, curator, and now gallerist Ben Russell makes short films, which he calls "animated photography," performance, and installations that examine...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Anyone who thinks that Shakespeare's plays are an easy drama go-to ought to watch for the stunt-tastic, cultural mash-up bonanza that...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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 9/ 9 @ Chicago Urban Art Society
Chicago artist Doug Fogelson has been experimenting with the mediums of soil and rammed earth — an ancient, sustainable wall-building method...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Second City
Does the title of this sketch comedy show refer to the cast or the audience? The answer, of course, is both....
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Darkness Revisited: A Collection of Private Pleasures
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Smart Museum of Art
Organized by University of Chicago students, this intimate exhibition of prints from the Smart Museum's collection revisits the themes of The...
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Thursday 9/ 9 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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,...
