October 2024
Paul Vecchiali: The Strangler (1970)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 31st, at 7PM
A Kind of Reality/Un tipo de realidad: Moving Pictures
@ Pueblo Unido Gallery at Centro Romero
6212 North Clark St, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Inadelso Cossa: The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
No Master Territories: Feminist Short Films with Curator Erika Balsom
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, at 7PM
Max Guy: Book Launch
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Process as an Emotional Revolution: An Artist Talk & Conversation with Ana Gallardo
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Inadelso Cossa: A Memory in Three Acts
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, October 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Making Multichannel Music w/ Norman Long
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, at 7:30PM
A Question of Silence / We Aim to Please (1982 / 1976)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, at 7PM
E. Hughes: Ankle-Deep In Pacific Water: Book Launch
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, at 6:30PM
Book Talk Life After Kafka
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
Celebrate Mexican Culture with ‘Day of the Dead LIVE!’
@ Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 1st
Young Professionals Networking
@ Big Chicks
5024 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline with Jamie Merchant and Tyler Zimmer
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 7PM - 8PM
Soul of the Land: Open Exhibit Hours
@ Life Force Shamanic Arts and Healing
1609 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 1:30p - 6:30p
On view through Monday, January 5th
Diane Simpson
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Duke Oursler: Rural Route 1
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, November 8th
Another Happy Day Screening
@ Facets
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Monday, October 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
OPC: Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, October 28th, at 6PM
Gender Jumble Juggernaut Closing Night Performance
@ Agitatator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Catie Olson and EC Brown: Hyperboreal Jukebox
@ Chicago Billiard Cafe Mezzanine Art Lounge
935 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
Farouk Beloufa: Nahla (1979)
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 27th, at 5PM
Screening: Jenin Jenin (2002)
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwuakee Ave., Floor 3, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 2:30 PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
“THAT WAS YOU?”: FINDING AND MAKING OURSELVES IN THE ARCHIVE
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S MLK Dr, Chicago, IL, 60653
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
Closing Tea & Reading Group for D Rosen: Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N. Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
North Shore Black Artist Group Show
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, October 27th, at 12PM
Pleiades Series: Hali Palombo, Bankatez
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 8PM
Karolina Grzywnowicz: GREEN BELT
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 10th
Side Yard Sounds Presents: Christine Shallenberg & Aurora Tabar, Kim Nucci, Mabel Kwan and Sara Zalek
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
Javier Jasso: Back of the Yards Conservatory
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 7th
Chigeria
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 22nd
GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus | Illustration & Photography
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
Julie DeFalco: CHEERS! — Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails & Beverages
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 22nd
Encaustic Quartet: Pat Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, Michele Thrane
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
Día de Muertos
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
DARK ARTS 3: GOES TO HELL
@ THE SEVENTH CORNER GALLERY
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
Audrey Montoya: Nervous Laughter
@ Lunk + Hancy
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 4PM - 6PM
HOW TO MAKE A SCENE #7: Ben Foch, Iain Muirhead, Taylor Payton
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
Michelangelo Sabatino: The Edith Farnsworth House
@ Northwestern University - Norris University Center
1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
Nicholas Sistler: TORQUE: Closing Reception and Artist Talk
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Art on the Farm: Exhibition
@ Just Roots Community Garden
2936 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Closing Reception and Artist Talk
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
Cecilia Beaven: Semilla
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, March 30th
Side Yard Sounds: Christine Shallenberg & Aurora Tabar, Kim Nucci, Mabel Kwan, Sara Zalek
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 7PM
David Hauptschein & Allen Vandever: Lemonade Freak Show
@ Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Paper Models with Tom Greensfelder
@ Artists Book House
4207 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 1PM - 4PM
Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: THE Artisanal Roomscape LABORATORY
@ Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 11:30am - 1:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 2nd
Día de los Muertos Xicágo
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 3PM
What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago: Symposium
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 11AM - 6PM
Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich and Andrea Carlson
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Polyglot II
@ Rare Nest Gallery
3433 North Kedvale Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, October 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, January 15th
Insert Coin
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at
On view through Sunday, February 16th
Positions: New Landscapes
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Giordano Dance Chicago – Season 62 | SOARING
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
3320 Dance Series
@ Dovetail Garage
2853 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
WISDOM GONE WILD (2022) with filmmaker Rea Tajiri in person
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 25th, at 7 PM
PPP — THE PREPARATOR’S PET PIANO: 21c Music, a dialogue with Itsï Ramirez, Whitney Johnson & Brooks Clarke
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Ken Minami: Night Shift
@ Leslie Wolfe Gallery
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
Art for Health Benefit
@ Venue West
221 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 6PM - 10PM
Art in Conversation: Rob Fischer and Chris Larson
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
WORKS FOR ALL: Remembering William Walker’s “All of Mankind”
@ Art on Sedgwick
1404 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
INSIGHTS VII – The Best of the Best
@ Zolla Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, #1E, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Comfort Music: Chicago Sound Bath
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Art of Science: Exoplanet Atmospheres and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
@ Parlour & Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
STRAWBERRY FIELDS (1997) with filmmaker Rea Tajiri
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 24th, at 7 PM
Book Launch: Azbuka Strikes Back: an Anti-colonial ABCs with Slavs & Tatars and Leah Feldman ft DJ Lutton Lento
@ Punch House
1227 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Chicago Narratives: Finding a Creative Home
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Micah Schippa-Wildfong: Civilization of Happiness: Performance
@ MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 24th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, November 10th
An Evening With Alan Kwan
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jesse Benson, Alli Melanson, Sara Yukiko: Current
@ Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
James Florio at Tippet Rise
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
Erin Hayden, Paul Gerard Somers, David Trost: Pop!
@ Lillstreet Art Center Gallery
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 31st
VOICES: Andrea Carlson
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
HINDSIGHT
@ DOVETAIL STUDIOS
2853 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Making Multichannel Music w/ Paige Alice Naylor
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, at 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
SCA Art Talk | Tishan Hsu
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
The Great Farce Exhibition Keynote: Federico Solmi in Conversation
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, at 6PM
Srikanth Reddy: The Unsignificant
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Scott Wolniak: Aggregations
@ O'Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University
7900 Division St, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 4th
Fires of the Ancestors: Exploring the Mayan Calendar
@ Elgin Community College
1700 Spartan Dr. Elgin, IL 60123
Opening Wednesday, October 23rd, from 11AM - 12:15PM
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
On view through Saturday, March 15th
Elastro: Rafael Toral, Daniel Wyche
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, at 8PM
Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Queer Survivor Art Walkthrough
@ Awakenings Art
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Live Arts | Joseph Lefthand
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Denae Howard: What Were You Dreaming When You Were Killed?
@ Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 16th
The Soul of the Land: From Sentience to Sovereignty
@ Life Force Arts Center
1609 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, October 22nd, from 1:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Monday, January 5th
Ed Flood/Art Green/Jordan Davies
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, October 26th
The 2024 3Arts Awards
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, October 21st, at 5:30 PM
Unpredictable, Yet Insistent: An Evening of Mutually Made Music
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 8PM - 10PM
La Unión
@ Chicago Art Department
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 3PM - 5PM
Alison Ruttan: Falling to Pieces
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Zine Club Chicago Poetry Comix Edition, with Mita Mahato
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 20th, at 3PM
Film Screening & Conversation: 30TH Anniversary of Shawshank Redemption (1994)
@ Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, October 20th, at 2PM
On view through Wednesday, April 30th
C. C. Ann Chen: UNGROUND
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, October 20th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 1st
