October 2018
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)
@ Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Arts in the Dark: Halloween Parade
@ Arts in the Dark
Lake St & N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Mama Africa (NR)
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Cardboard Cathedrals Inspired by Piacenza
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 10AM - 4:30PM
The Lifespan of Public Art: In Conversation with Virginio Ferrari and Andrei Pop
@ Gordon Parks Arts Hall, University of Chicago
5815 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Friday, December 14th
Complex II
@ CC's Art Garage
2727 S Mary St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 19th
The 22nd Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference on Black Literature and Creative Writing
@ Chicago State University
9501 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 8:30AM - 7PM
Lit & Luz Festival of Language, Literature, and Art
@ Hideout Inn
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 19th, at 6PM
16th Annual Art on Cardboard Show
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 06PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 19th
Ghouls and Gargoyles: A Historic and Haunted Scavenger Hunt
@ Dearborn Station
47 W Polk St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Institutional Garbage + FACSIMILE : book release + art opening
@ Ace Hotel Chicago
311 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 29th
Mel Andringa: Drawing Lessons In Orbit
@ ORBIT
1350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 24th
Sticky Digits
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 16th
Alyx Harch: Window Shopping
@ Tusk
3205 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, November 8th
Freaky Faces with Manal Kara
@ GnarWare Workshop
1838 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jeanette Andrews: An (impossible apple) a day
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Designers in Context: Film, Advertising, and Modernism
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
AfroFuturist Weekend
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 19th, at 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 21st
8th Annual Murder Mystery: Oscar Madness
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, October 27th
Re: A Two-Volume Exhibition – Michal Martychowiec: The Nor’easter Blows
@ LITHIUM
1932 S Halsted St, STE 200, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
On view through Saturday, November 3rd
Huge Art Show!
@ Platform Studios
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
1968 Decentered
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 19th, at 10AM
On view through Saturday, October 20th
Can Cows be Purple? Participatory Arts Art Therapy Workshop
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 1PM - 3:45PM
Design in Motion Workshop #1
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 19th, from 5PM - 7PM
Nance Klehm
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
DIFFA Art for Life Chicago benefit
@ Venue West
221 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, October 18th
How do you see me?: Panel Discussion
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On view through Saturday, October 27th
Bad News
@ Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 16th
Hélène Crouzillat and Laetitia Tura: Les Messagers
@ Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Charles Gaines
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Sun Ra Arkestra
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Soap Box Ball 2018: A Night of Storytelling with City Bureau
@ South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Contemporary Art, Mexico
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Patric McCoy in Conversation with Kahari Black: Environmentalism, Art, and the Neighborhood
@ Experimental Station
6100 South Blackstone Ave, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 18th
Songs of Survival
@ Awakenings
4001 N Ravenswood Ave #204C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Flip The House
@ Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 18th
WLPN Presents: Horror Comics
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
Disciplines of Experiment
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 18th, at 6PM
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chicago Ideas Week Lab: The Body Speaks
@ Pulaski Park
1351 N Cleaver St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 18th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
ESPERUS The Janitor
@ Rubberneck Gallery
2058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, October 17th
Music at the 1893 World’s Fair
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Book Discussion at the Gallery
@ The Gallery
202 E Wisconsin Ave, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Opening Wednesday, October 17th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Reading and Interview with Author Julián Herbert
@ Roosevelt University
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, October 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
Patricia Gherovici: Colonialism and the Unconscious
@ SAIC Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St, 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Alexandra Bell
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S Columbus Dr, room 2023, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
October Travelogue: The Silk Road
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 1PM - 2PM
Artist Case Studies: Business Models
@ Chicago Artist Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Regeneration: disability art, activism, and access
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
CHIPRC’s Zine Zine Club: Mysterious & Spooky Edition
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
The Native and the Refugee
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
1968: We Were There
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Forms & Features
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Monday, October 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jeremy Deller
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
At Home with the Artist: A Legacy of Domesticity through House Museums
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, October 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Option: Lunch with Money (Lou Mallozzi and Douglas Ewart)
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, October 15th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
The City That Speaks: Chicago for Change
@ 5th Floor Gallery
400 S Peoria St, 5th Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, October 15th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Tuesday, October 30th
2nd Sunday Community Binding at Read/Write Library
@ Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California Ave (Walton Entrance), Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 14th, at 2PM
Renee Robbins: Hidden Worlds: Exhibition Tour
@ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 2 PM - 3:30 PM
On view through Saturday, October 20th
Bail or No?
@ The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
Andreas Fischer: Are You OK
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 17th
Sarah and Joseph Belknap: We are Beasts
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 30th
Mt. Shamao
@ Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Monday, October 14th
The Field/Chicago Fall 2018 Fieldwork!
@ Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
Ben Blount
@ 1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, October 22nd
Esteban King and Mia Lopez
@ Sector 2337 + The Green Lantern Press
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
1:26 The Art of Epilepsy Chicago
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Shapes in Space
@ Defibrillator Gallery
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 14th
The Color of Art
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, October 13th, at 8:15PM
Chicago’s Gold Coast Patronage and the 1893 World’s Fair
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 13th
Family Day: Short Circuit
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 11AM - 3PM
Mimi Bahk: High Jump
@ New Works
3403 W Grand Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, November 12th
Feeling GOOD: A MADD Tribute To Nina Simone
@ Harold Washington Cultural Center
4701 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 8PM - 10PM
Diasporal Rhythms’s 2018 Home Tour of Art Collectors
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 9AM - 1PM
AfroRhythmic
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 2PM - 6PM
Meg Duguid: Double Double
@ Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 10th
Cream Co.: Plant Your Fears
@ 61st Street Farmers Market
6100 S Dorchester Ave, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, November 18th
Fuyumi Murata on Japanese Artists presented by Adia Sykes
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 Logan Blvd, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 8PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 29th
Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Talk
@ One After 909
906 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
Robert Pitts: Southern Black Cat Call Medicine Show
@ Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
South Rhodes Records Pop-Up Show
@ Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 10AM - 2PM
All the World Is Here
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 10AM - 11PM
On view through Monday, October 1st
Ben Murray: Annex
@ SideCar
411 Huehn, Hammond, IN, 46327
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 10th
Aural Architecture
@ Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park
5500 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, October 14th
Miao Wang: MAINELAND
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 West 23rd Stt, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 2PM - 4PM
Open House Chicago 2018
@ Chicago Architecture Center
111 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, October 13th, at 8AM
On view through Sunday, October 14th
Un Paseo por las Formas di mi Miente
@ One River School
1033 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 21st
Jenny Q: Double Rainbows = Double Happiness
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, January 18th
Pan-African Festival of Algiers
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Contemporary Ukrainian Graphics
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 9th
Kevin Coval & Langston Allston: Milwaukee Ave Chapbook Release
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
House of the Apocalypse Opening
@ House of the Apocalypse
1908 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
Re:Working Labor
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 9AM - 4:30PM
Joe Tallarico: Passing Glances
@ Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On view through Saturday, November 17th
Lee Blalock and Mocrep: Stereo Test Program No. 3
@ Unity Lutheran Church
1212 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 8PM - 9PM
Alexandra Haas: Efflorescence
@ Rubberneck
2058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Friday, October 12th
Preetika Rajgariah & Zuri Washington: An Undoing
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 10th
Chicago Open Archives: MCA Chicago Library and Archives
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 12th, from 3PM - 4PM
