DUDE! CALL NOW A few tickets remain for both Gustavo Dudamel at Symphony Center and Smart Start at the Robie.
THE FIVE
Don’t-miss picks for Wed 05.12.10 through Tue 05.18.10:
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architecture Sunday Smart Start at the Robie House |
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classical Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic ALSO THIS WEEK: As if Dudamania wasn’t enough: Also May 14 (with additional concerts May 13 and 15), the indefatigable Yo-Yo Ma premieres a cello concerto by his Silk Road collaborator Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky. |
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theatre The Gay American ALSO THIS WEEK: The wunderkind composer Joshua Schmidt (Adding Machine) provides the score for Baal, TUTA’s socially subversive bio of a drunken, womanizing wastrel; plus, a fine finale to Chicago’s mini Athol Fugard fest, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, begins previews at the Court. |
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concerts Murder by Death |
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film Work Series; Vincent: A Life in Color |
FREEBIES OF THE WEEK
film I Know a Woman Like That
Just in time for post–Mother’s Day catharsis, the filmmaker and onetime Evanstonian Elaine Madsen hosts a Q&A and screening of her new documentary, a collection of interviews of women nowhere near ready to throw in the towel (Eartha Kitt, Rita Moreno, Gloria Steinem) conducted by Madsen and her daughter, the Oscar nominee—and our February 2006 cover girl—Virginia Madsen.
GO: May 12 at 7. Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington, Evanston. percolatorfilms.org
classical Eighth Blackbird, Pacifica Quartet
The University of Chicago’s two Grammy-winning ensembles-in-residence end this year’s Contempo series with an annual performance of works by the school’s young music majors. The program’s unofficial motto: Everything but the kitchen sink.
GO: May 14 at 7:30: Fulton Recital Hall, U of C, 1010 E 59th. May 26 at 7:30: Ganz Hall, Roosevelt U, 430 S Michigan. chicagopresents.uchicago.edu.
galleries Carson Fox
The Brooklyn artist Fox is a glutton for overdoing it, a self-professed lover of glitter and “retinal bombardment” whose last show at Warren, two years ago, featured thousands of cast-resin flowers pinned to the walls—a delightfully over-the-top riot of visual excess that has us biting our nails for her next round.
GO: May 14–June 19. Linda Warren Gallery, 1052 W Fulton Market. lindawarrengallery.com
ALSO THIS WEEK: A new show by the Indiana U professor emeritus Robert Barnes, who, unlike his peers H. C. Westermann and Francis Bacon, has always eschewed greater art world trends, opens at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
Photography: (Dudamel) Chris Christodoulou, (Robie House) Tim Long