“David Bowie Is” is coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art on September 23, and nothing else happening in Chicago this fall matters. All Bowie, in all his multivarious forms, in sight, sound, theater, and dance, plus Bryan Ferry and Todd Haynes and Sandy Powell (though not, alas, the corporeal Bowie himself)—and it’s coming here, and only here, so take that, New York and LA.
But enough looking back: jazz bassist and composer Matt Ulery, playwright Lucas Hnath, and novelist Lindsay Hunter all have new work. Lena Dunham and hundreds more writers and thinkers will descend for the Humanities Festival. Comic Cameron Esposito returns from California. Gone Girl the movie is finally here.
