All events on Friday October 24
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- Found Footage Festival
- Friday Oct 24 (8pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
- Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been hoarding found videos for more than 15 years: abandoned home movies, bizarre corporate-training tapes, sweet dance routines, and... View details »
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- Disruptions: The Political in Art Now
- Friday Oct 24 (4pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- What's the relationship between art and politics? How can art contribute to social change? These questions aren't new, but they never fail to inspire and... View details »
- Film: Animation
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Friday Oct 24 (8pm) @ Music Box Theatre
- Academy Award-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt stops in Chicago tonight to show a selection of his shorts and premiere his new film, I... View details »
- Art
- Omer Fast
- Friday Oct 24 (5–7pm) @ Betty Rymer Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that interweaves two divergent stories... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Doug and Mike Starn
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5pm) @ David Weinberg Gallery More times »
- Free
- Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully proving that notion wrong.... View details »
- Art
- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
- Friday Oct 24 (4–7pm) @ Roots & Culture More times »
- Free
- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings hung like home decor... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Friday Oct 24 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- Confounding music critics is not the Legendary Pink Dots' modus operandi, but it must amuse them to peruse the long lists of micro-genres that writers... View details »
- Film: Double Feature
- Zero for Conduct and Man's Castle
- Friday Oct 24 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- A revenge fantasy with an emphasis on the fantastical, Jean Vigo's comic-surrealist classic Zero for Conduct is the alpha point for the "rebel schoolboy" genre.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Rumble Strips
- Friday Oct 24 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
- Failed romantics the Rumble Strips have taken the UK by storm with the Jens Lekman-style tune "Girls and Boys in Love," the verbose Belle and... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- The Roots
- Friday Oct 24 (6:30pm) @ Congress Theater
- Defying the laws of gravity isn't always the aim of underground hip-hop artists, but for the legendary Roots crew, "between greenhouse gases and the earth... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Friday Oct 24 (8 & 11pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
- From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Friday Oct 24 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary More times »
- Free
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into conversation. In this sancturary,... View details »
- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–5pm) @ Intuit More times »
- Free
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Friday Oct 24 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
- Free
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- Friday Oct 24 (9:30am–4:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum More times »
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the residents who helped put... View details »
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- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Friday Oct 24 (noon–7pm) @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago More times »
- Free
- Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of frantic jazz, aimless sex,... View details »
- Art
- Art of Democracy
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art More times »
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history of disseminating ideas to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- Friday Oct 24 (10:30pm) @ Apollo Theater More times »
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance, and a live band.... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Friday Oct 24 @ Navy Pier More times »
- The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic death overshadowed its prodigious... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Art
- New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
- Free
- Artist collaborative New Catalogue often operates like a stock-photo agency or a design company in order to explore fictional imagery and submerged cultural narratives. Its... View details »
- Art
- Displacement
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it embodies China's hunger for... View details »
- Art
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Friday Oct 24 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea of capturing "the decisive... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
- Free
- Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views. This series, on display... View details »
- Art
- Deceptive Design
- Friday Oct 24 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer is invariably yes. The... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Tamar Halpern
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
- Free
- Should anyone need criteria by which to measure the success of emerging artists, one could investigate whether they had their first couple of solo exhibitions... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- Friday Oct 24 (noon–6pm) @ Golden More times »
- Free
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan Jill Frank, nodding both... View details »
- Art
- Ian Pedigo
- Friday Oct 24 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
- Free
- Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain sense of precision. His... View details »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Friday Oct 24 (8:15am–5:30pm) @ The Newberry Library More times »
- Free
- The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a lesser-known facet of the... View details »
- Art
- Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
- Friday Oct 24 (1–6pm) @ Normal Projects More times »
- Free
- Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by emerging and established artists,... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
- Free
- Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work he often returns to... View details »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–3pm) @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
- Free
- Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example — the Spertus Institute has... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Friday Oct 24 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Night of the Living Artist
- Friday Oct 24 (noon–5pm) @ Chicago Art Department More times »
- Free
- Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In either case, that's the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Trisha Brown Dance Company
- Friday Oct 24 (8pm) @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
- Of the dozen-odd postmodern choreographers to come out of the "Judson Church" movement, none has had as much lasting impact as Trisha Brown. Her enormous... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Friday Oct 24 @ Various locations More times »
- Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the fall, along with independent,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Friday Oct 24 (8pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place More times »
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative told through dance. Their... View details »
- Art
- Doug Smithenry
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
- Free
- In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls out the empty self-validation... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- Friday Oct 24 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to rival museums. (Lucky for... View details »
- Art
- Josh Azzarella
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–6pm) @ Kavi Gupta Gallery More times »
- Free
- Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar. Most are manipulations of... View details »
- Art
- Regin Igloria
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5:30pm) @ Zg Gallery More times »
- Free
- With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both psychologically and as a... View details »
- Art
- Amy Mayfield
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–5pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
- Free
- With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet vaguely winsome. In her... View details »
- Art
- Rodney Graham
- Friday Oct 24 (10am–5:30pm) @ Donald Young Gallery More times »
- Free
- Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full of abstract impasto paintings... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Friday Oct 24 (7:30pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
- Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of history. His recent "metaphysical... View details »
- Art
- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
- Free
- Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as both film set and... View details »
- Art
- Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
- Friday Oct 24 (11am–6pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past year. The artist appears... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Friday Oct 24 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
