Events on Saturday, November 10

Macy's Great Tree Lighting

City Gems

Macy's Great Tree Lighting

Saturday 11/10 @ Macy's State St

Macy's Great Tree Lighting has long served as the unofficial kickoff to the holiday season in downtown Chicago. This year's tree... 

Colette w/ Dan X and Sativa

Music: DJ

Colette

Saturday 11/10 @ SmartBar

Handmade Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Handmade Market

Saturday 11/10 @ The Empty Bottle

Craft fanatics for whom the Renegade Craft Fair comes too infrequently can get a monthly DIY fix at the Empty Bottle's... 

Fakes, Phonies, and Frauds

Special Event

Fakes, Phonies, and Frauds

Saturday 11/10 @ Chicago History Museum

Recent films like The Hoax and My Kid Could Paint That explored the uncertain nature of authenticity in journalism and art.... 

Ongoing Events

<i>I Am Eyebeam</i>

Special Event

I Am Eyebeam

Saturday 11/10 @ Gallery 400

Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,... 

19th Annual Polish Film Festival

Film

19th Annual Polish Film Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a... 

Christopher Patch: <i>Matinicus</i>

Art

Christopher Patch

Saturday 11/10 @ moniquemeloche gallery

American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard... 

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West... 

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Art

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Saturday 11/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial... 

<i>Mr. Fluxus</i>

Performing Arts

Mr. Fluxus

Saturday 11/10 @ The Neo-Futurarium

In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon... 

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Saturday 11/10 @ Music Box Theatre

Twenty-one years after the release of the last Clash album, director Julien Temple's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten examines the... 

<i>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</i>

Art

Casting a Shadow

Saturday 11/10 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University

Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through... 

Audrey Niffenegger: <i>Elegy for Isabella Blow</i>

Art

Audrey Niffenegger

Saturday 11/10 @ Printworks Gallery

British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear... 

Joel Sternfeld: <i>American Prospects, The Seasons</i>

Art: Photography

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, The Seasons

Saturday 11/10 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art

A pioneer of contemporary color photography, Joel Sternfeld uses large-format prints to continue Walker Evans' tradition of documenting the American landscape.... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck... 

<i>The Crucible</i>

Theatre

The Crucible

Saturday 11/10 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding... 

<i>The Telephone Book</i> (1971)

Film

The Telephone Book

Saturday 11/10 @ Music Box Theatre

The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult... 

Kacy Maddux

Art

Kacy Maddux

Saturday 11/10 @ Gescheidle

Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

Saturday 11/10 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,... 

<i>Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination</i>

Film

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Science and Industry

Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is... 

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Saturday 11/10 @ Auditorium Theatre

Heavily influenced by William Forsythe's sexy deconstructionism, former Alvin Ailey member Dwight Rhoden and beloved star dancer Desmond Richardson aim to... 

Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: <i>Making Peace</i> & Ann Toebbe: <i>Stained Glass</i>

Art

Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass

Saturday 11/10 @ threewalls

You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a... 

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Saturday 11/10 @ Smart Museum of Art

This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a... 

<i>Guns & Ammo</i>

Art

Guns & Ammo

Saturday 11/10 @ Gallery 40000

Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal... 

Cody Hudson

Art

Cody Hudson

Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There... 

<i>Chalk</i>

Theatre

Chalk

Saturday 11/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater

The British faux documentary Death of a President raised eyebrows last year by imagining the assassination of the sitting American chief... 

<i>King Corn</i>

Film

King Corn

Saturday 11/10 @ Facets Cinémathèque

It seems everyone - from Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation to Michael Pollan's The Carnivore's Dilemma- is starting to wonder just... 

Theaster Gates

Art

Theaster Gates

Saturday 11/10 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Jason Karolak: <i>New Paintings and Drawings</i>

Art

Jason Karolak

Saturday 11/10 @ Rowland Contemporary

Chicago-based painter Jason Karolak's prodigious oil paintings evoke a feeling of intense satisfaction; he enthralls the viewer with vast, looping strokes... 

Adam Pendleton: <i>Rendered in Black and Rendered</i>

Art

Rendered in Black and Rendered

Saturday 11/10 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 11/10 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...