Events on Friday, September 9
Friday 9/ 9 @ Polish Triangle
The performance-art space Defibrillator (or dfbrl8r) was a strong addition to this year's MDW Fair, with strange and enigmatic actions quietly...
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Hideout
Chicago-based Bloodshot Records remains the foremost label for alt-country (if that's still a thing we say; modern roots rock, perhaps?). Today's...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Mark Bradford's highly anticipated show at the MCA is both a wide-ranging retrospective of the still-young artist's work (and the first...
In the Next Room or the vibrator play
Friday 9/ 9 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Wet nurses! Victorian-era sexual mores! The Wizard of Menlo Park! All factor into the long-awaited Chicago premiere of In the Next...
Friday 9/ 9 @ DCA Theater
A refreshingly non-hectoring "issues" play, Corazón de Manzana eyes the shockingly common wave of "femicide" in Juarez, Mexico through three touching...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Angel Otero has shot to the top of the art world after his graduation from the School of the Art Institute...
You Better Be Listening: Text in Self-Taught Art
Friday 9/ 9 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
One of the hallmarks of outsider art is a nontraditional relationship between image and text — such as emphasizing text's visual...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
The chandelier is the main recurring motif in Lorraine Peltz's exhibition at Packer Schopf Gallery in the West Loop. A staple...
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
A huge new exhibition (there are over 300 works ranging from photography to glassware) at the Art Institute comes from a...
Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection
Friday 9/ 9 @ MCA Chicago
One of the MCA's greatest curatorial strengths is the way they put strongly influential work into conversation with its inheritors from...
Julius Caesar: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Friday 9/ 9 @ Peregrine Program
PEREGRINEPROGRAM's inaugural exhibition in their new location features the four artists of Julius Caesar, an artist-run gallery that PEREGRINE is now...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photography, with its necessarily framed nature and self-awareness of the limitations of the human eye, is a perfect medium from which...
Friday 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...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Chicago Cultural Center
The Cultural Center has been on a roll lately with killer art exhibitions that are both theoretically substantive and fun to...
Friday 9/ 9 @ threewalls
A lot of artists talk about or allude to socialism, but at threewalls Zachary Cahill approaches it, in one of the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Second City
Yes, there's an obligatory farewell to Rich Daley in the Second City's 99th mainstage revue, but after sending up politics and the...
Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
It's a marvel to watch the visual styles unfold and develop as you snake through Windows on the War: Soviet TASS...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Chicago Then and Now: A Story by Lee Bey
Friday 9/ 9 @ City Gallery
The Historic Water Tower on North Michigan Avenue is the perfect place to see architecture critic and photographer Lee Bey's Chicago...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Designed by German architect Josef Paul Kleihues, the Museum of Contemporary Art's façade is a bit, shall we say, austere. The...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
Although it falls between the high profile, large-scale duo of Chicago Dancing Festival and Dance Chicago, the none-too-skimpy-itself Other Dance Festival...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Public Works Gallery
For its third consecutive year, the Someoddpilot brainchild Public Works celebrates and explores the nexus between contemporary design and fine art....
Friday 9/ 9 @ EBERSMOORE
Chicago, sports town that it is, proves to be a good backdrop for Rob Carter's video and installation at Ebersmoore. Accompanied...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Western Exhibitions
For Maria Petschnig's show at Western Exhibitions, titled With the Door Closed, the artist literally installed a door, blocking off the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Big Joe's
A drink purchase on a Friday night at this Ravenswood dive earns you a chance at racing glory — turtle racing...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Friday 9/ 9 @ Hyde Park Art Center
The so-called new reality of the post-recession era has been in full effect at Cream Co.'s GEEE, on exhibition at the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
The long-running Tulsa, OK-based film festival returns to Chicago with the latest grab bag of assorted award-winning shorts, low-budget indie premieres,...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Apollo Theater
In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The MCA's new exhibition Motor Cocktail is culled from its permanent collection, but this is one of the few comprehensive group...
Jacob C Hammes and Lisa Rybovich-Crallé
Friday 9/ 9 @ Roots & Culture
Objects are just not quite themselves in the current exhibition at Roots & Culture. In Lisa Rybovich Crallé's work, one has...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
A visitor to the CoLaboratory exhibition is encouraged to manipulate the wooden frames that hold scrims and screens in the gallery,...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Betty Rymer Gallery
This exhibition brings together boldly idiosyncratic works showcasing the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary comics. The past decade has brought an...
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Finnish video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila's films depict the perceptions of those suffering from various mental illnesses, presenting unstable consciousness through formal...
Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)
Friday 9/ 9 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From time to time, a Second City sketch show boldly defies precedent, taking the form in a new direction and staking...
Friday 9/ 9 @ MCA Chicago
As the MCA phases out their UBS 12 x 12 series, they near the end on a strong note with Dan...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Courtney Blades
Located just a few doors down from 65GRAND, Courtney Blades is one of the newest galleries in Chicago, and they began...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Theater Wit
With nuclear weaponers concocting increasingly potent bombs at a breakneck pace, the balky, politically fraught arms reduction talks between Russia and...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Metaphors of the body in art and the work of art as a body are explored in Mouthing, through the work...
Friday 9/ 9 @ 65GRAND
An exhibition of new paintings from William Staples proves that the artist has not been taking the summer off. Staples pays...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Jason Lazarus is widely known as a photographer, but lately he has been moving more towards a conceptual practice, an aspect...
Friday 9/ 9 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Facing busy West Division Street and visible through the windows night and day inside moniquemeloche, phrases like "I am a fighter"...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Carrie Secrist Gallery announced that they were "reinforcing [their] commitment to emerging artists" this season, starting with an exhibition from Andrew...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Various Chicago locations
As Chicago's top and mid-major companies rack up Regional Theatre Tony Awards, churn out Oscar-nominated character actors, and spur directors to...
Sharon Bridgforth's Theatrical Jazz Institute Showcase
Friday 9/ 9 @ Links Hall
Inspired by traditional Jazz methods of training, this Institute was designed for artists interested in learning about the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic...
Wood Type, Evolved: Experimental Letterpress & Relief Printing in the 21st Century
Friday 9/ 9 @ Columbia College Chicago
Wood Type, Evolved defines a global, burgeoning mode of activity in which contemporary artists are producing artwork through the development of...
Work With Me: 5th Annual Faculty Exhibition
Friday 9/ 9 @ Columbia College Chicago
Collaboration is a process where two or more people or groups work together to realize a shared goal. More than the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Gallery 400
Opening Reception: September 9, 5-8;m In the six artists' works in Intimacies the camera is an active agent in the...
Friday 9/ 9 @ Columbia College Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Photogrpahy presents Our Origins, an exhibition that considers the human inclination to trace our beginnings beyond recorded...
