Events on Wednesday, January 18
Wednesday 1/18 @ Beat Kitchen
Summer Girlfriends w/ E+, Pearls, and Magic City
Wednesday 1/18 @ FitzGerald's
Billy Joe Shaver was acquitted last year for the wild 2007 incident in which he shot a man in the face...
Wednesday 1/18 @ The Hideout
It seems like just yesterday we were introduced to the quirky inhabitants of IFC's knockout original comedy series Portlandia. But nearly...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art has moved to replace its long-running UBS 12x12 exhibitions, which focused on a different Chicago-based artist...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Public Works Gallery
Artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt's Neche Collection is a set of minimal, atmospheric prints and print/photo diptychs that retell the story of her...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Peanut Gallery
Peanut Gallery was voted "Best New Gallery of the Future" in 2011 by Newcity, so begin the New Year by paying...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Wednesday 1/18 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Western Exhibitions
Paintings from different artists appear to be held by unseen assistants, as legs are visible below the canvases, in John Riepenhoff's...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Various Chicago theaters
After directing two brilliant, barbed satires, Citizen Ruth and the Preston Sturges-worthy Election, Alexander Payne became American film's poet laureate of...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Smart Museum of Art
For almost a year now Chicago has been hosting The Soviet Experience, a citywide presentation of artists working "under (and in...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
We've been anxious to see how one of the most fascinating directors working today, David Cronenberg, explores the dynamic between famed...
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
From the artist who brought you "EYE," the enormous fiberglass eyeball that sat next to Harold Washington Library last year, Tony...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Systems of organization are at the heart of Beth Campbell's Periodic Split at Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Hanging from the ceiling, these...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
The mystery of symbols and magic is strongly felt at Derek Chan's All Our Relations, where one has the feeling of...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Wednesday 1/18 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Pulled from his yearlong drawing-a-day blog Coco River Fudge Street, the Hyde Park Art Center presents the work of David Leggett....
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Pop Up Art Loop
Outfitted with goggles on bubble-like bodies, the recognizable characters from street artist Nice One seem to float through their world and...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
An anxiousness exists among people of color because there is still an expectation to "perform," explain and react to one's Blackness...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Western Exhibitions
"It's like looking at the stars at night, with a cold beer," remarked John Riepenhoff about his exhibition Plein Air Paintings,...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday 1/18 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Currently scientists must be highly specialized in their own respective fields, so much so that it is becoming a problem since...
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Robert Overby's work at Rhona Hoffman smells — literally. Made of huge expanses of latex that are now aging and releasing...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
The new paintings from Samantha Bittman on view at Thomas Robertello vibrate visually and materially. Visually they hum as tightly patterned...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Going beyond the film-school staples (without overlooking them), this retrospective of the pioneering Russian filmmaker and theorist spans all stages of...
Wednesday 1/18 @ DePaul Art Museum
The DePaul Art Museum opens their brand new building with Re: Chicago, an exhibition that is crowd-sourced from the experts: Chicago's...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Wednesday 1/18 @ 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...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Wednesday 1/18 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This taut, streamlined Tempest hurtles through CST with gale-force creative energy. Condensing Shakespeare's play to an hour-long romp through a fragmented...
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Chopin Theatre
The Hypocrites apply their winning formula of hip deconstruction and dark comedy to the cherished operetta Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert and...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
While the holiday season has come and gone and the New Year just begun, Lloyd DeGrane's photographs of maximum-security prisons at...
Wednesday 1/18 @ A + D Gallery
It's a total freak show at Columbia College's A + D Gallery, where Cannonball Press is exhibiting a series of prints...
Wednesday 1/18 @ Various Chicago theaters
This black-and-white, near-silent throwback by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117) delivers film-geek kicks in both form (gleefully antiquated transitions, early-cinema...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Wednesday 1/18 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Among its many accomplishments, the pioneering movement known broadly as Conceptual Art succeeded in bringing photography definitively into the mainstream of...
Wednesday 1/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/18 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
