All Tomorrow's Art Parties, Oct 9–11

Here’s some news to take your mind off the gloomy weather:
1. The Graham Foundation opens a new exhibition, “ACTIONS: What You Can Do With the City” October 16, straight from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
2. There are 162+ Art & Design events happening this weekend, including Industry of the Ordinary's highly anticipated 39 Verbs. Holy poutine!

Our slide show (above) offers a preview of this weekend’s new shows, but only the Art & Design listings have the whole story. The following events didn’t make it into print. Unless otherwise noted, they’re FREE. BTW: The Art & Design section “Today” link is still broken, so please click on “This week” or “This weekend” instead for our complete calendar.

This afternoon (Friday 9, 3–6pm) in the South Loop’s Fine Arts Building, SubCity Projects hosts a reception for Chicago artist Barbara Kasten’s show “Through a Glass Darkly.”

The Hyde Park Art Center’s monthly drink- and DJ-fueled workshop Cocktails & Clay is tonight, Friday 9, 8pm–midnight. (Donations suggested.)

Charnel House in Logan Square unveils paintings by Duffy O'Connor, Sari Maxfield, Victoria Szilagyi, Anna Liljas and April Jouse, which address magic, hysteria and the surreal, in “Seeing in Tongues,” Friday 9, 6–9pm.

Saturday 10, Harold Arts hosts a launch party for the new online quarterly Monsters and Dust (with writing by Salem Collo-Julin, Cayetano Ferrer, Simone Muench, Cody Critcheloe and many others) at The Chesterhill in Pilsen at 10pm.

Held in conjunction with Chicago Artists Month, the Kinzie Corridor Art Walk (Saturday 10, noon–5pm) encompasses the Arts of Life and open studios with artists including Steve Reber and Victoria Fuller. The Arts of Life hosts an after-party from 6–8pm.

Sunday 11, Hyde Park's Home Gallery closes its exhibition “Patrick Fitzgerald: Travelling” with brunch from noon–3pm.

Sunday 11 at 8pm, InCUBATE holds a special edition of Sunday Soup, Try: Station Soup, at Heaven Gallery in Wicker Park, in conjunction with the Smart Museum’s new show “Heartland.” Carnal Torpor, a Kansas City–based collective whose soothing CalmDome appears in “Heartland,” performs along with David Daniell and Michael Vallera, and Henry James Glover and Frank Van Duerm. ($10 cover includes “food, music, and an artifact from the performance.”)