Events on Friday, January 6
Friday 1/ 6 @ Claudia Cassidy Theater
G.K. Chesterton once rebutted a critic who "thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because [he] thinks that funny...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Mayne Stage
Perhaps more than any other Chicago comic, Dan Telfer appears poised to make the leap to higher profiles and a more...
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Empty Bottle
This Is My Fist (label: No Idea!) w/ Canadian Rifle, Daylight Robbery (label: Residue), and Scabs.
Ongoing Events
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: From the Wand of the Genii
Friday 1/ 6 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Free Opening Reception: September 16, 5-8pm Fascinated with botany and science, Von Bruenchenhein wrote extensively on his own metaphysical theories of...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
From the artist who brought you "EYE," the enormous fiberglass eyeball that sat next to Harold Washington Library last year, Tony...
Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ Western Exhibitions
Paintings from different artists appear to be held by unseen assistants, as legs are visible below the canvases, in John Riepenhoff's...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Friday 1/ 6 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
Michael Palascak (Pal-a-sack) really likes to make people laugh — mostly because it keeps them from asking why he still lives...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Controversy-courting director Lars Von Trier's latest female sacrifice is Kirsten Dunst in this film about crushing depression and waiting for the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
The new paintings from Samantha Bittman on view at Thomas Robertello vibrate visually and materially. Visually they hum as tightly patterned...
Chicago Then and Now: A Story by Lee Bey
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
Place is important to the Vancouver-based artist Ron Terada who greets the visitors to his exhibition at the MCA with a...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Paul McCartney was on a plane waiting for takeoff on a New York runway as the 9/11 attacks took place. His...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
There is a strong sense of humor in the work of IAIN BAXTER& that you can catch even if you aren't...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Various Chicago locations
Chicago can be tough on a new year's resolution: there's a tacqueria (or an Old Style sign) on every corner, the...
You Better Be Listening: Text in Self-Taught Art
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
For the last decade there has been a mutual respect and exchange between Alabama-based, self-taught artist Thornton Dial and a number...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Big Joe's
A drink purchase on a Friday night at this Ravenswood dive earns you a chance at racing glory — turtle racing...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
A member of the original Hairy Who exhibition group, which showed at the Hyde Park Art Center (1966-1968) and introduced the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Usually reserved for the illumination of Grateful Dead posters, the black is used to light fine art at the Hyde Park...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Sigur Rós fans — we know there are more than a few of you out there — here's your chance to...
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Architect Bertrand Goldberg's dramatic sculptural forms and innovative engineering have long been recognized as seminal contributions to the built environment of...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ EBERSMOORE
An innovative alternative space since its inception in 2009, EBERSMOORE continues to grow in size and ambition as it reopens in...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
There is no slasher movie-like gore in the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Crime Unseen as one might expect guess from the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Township
Ian's Party is an annual event that preemptively celebrates the yearly accomplishments of Ian, spiritual leader, sh*t talker, and all around...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Friday 1/ 6 @ Stage 773
In 2001, Chicago Sketchfest was born as a celebration of the city's rich sketch/improv-comedy scene. Though its duration has shortened, the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Robert Overby's work at Rhona Hoffman smells — literally. Made of huge expanses of latex that are now aging and releasing...
Text and Drugs and Rock & Roll
Friday 1/ 6 @ Maxwell Colette Gallery
Voted the "Best Established Artist" this year in the Chicago Reader poll, most likely by himself and his friends, Weed Wolf...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Western Exhibitions
"It's like looking at the stars at night, with a cold beer," remarked John Riepenhoff about his exhibition Plein Air Paintings,...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Apollo Theater
In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Chopin Theatre
The Hypocrites apply their winning formula of hip deconstruction and dark comedy to the cherished operetta Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert and...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Smart Museum of Art
Make silkscreen prints inspired by Soviet propaganda. Watch as a crew from Anchor Graphics demonstrates printmaking processes. Then use templates that...
Poetry on Screen: The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Friday 1/ 6 @ Poetry Foundation
The Chicago premiere of Bonesteel Films’ feature-length documentary, The Day Carl Sandburg Died, a film that presents the fascinating life of...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
Chicago Artists’ Coalition is pleased to present ARTIFACT, an exhibition featuring artwork by CAC BOLT Residents Marty Burns, Kathryn Trumbull Fimreite,...
Generation Bitch: Gender Identity and Expectations of 21st Century American Women
Friday 1/ 6 @ Links Hall
Curated by Artistic Associate April Sellers Generation Bitch is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival celebrating works from...
