Events on Saturday, November 17
Saturday 11/17 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Political documentaries aren't entertaining unless controversy or conspiracy is involved, but director Robert Stone's new film, Oswald's Ghost, has both in spades....
Factoring Warhol: Film, Myth, Legacy
Saturday 11/17 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Even before Art 101, we were all familiar with the iconic screen prints and well-worn "15 minutes" prediction. So we won't...
Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra
Saturday 11/17 @ The Hideout
Furiously pawing at her guitar like it's her last hope on a sinking ship, frontwoman Alex White of garage outfit Miss...
Saturday 11/17 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
Let your anti-corporate sympathies fly free while getting a head start on the holiday gift-giving season at the fifth annual DIY...
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Saturday 11/17 @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery
Chicago-based painter and SAIC professor Deborah Boardman focuses on the power of artists' individual studio practices, painting gouache responses to the...
Saturday 11/17 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
If any company can be called the indie darling of the dance world, it's Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Barely a decade...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Political documentaries aren't entertaining unless controversy or conspiracy is involved, and director Robert Stone's Oswald's Ghost has both in spades. Looking...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Saturday 11/17 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Saturday 11/17 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Saturday 11/17 @ Gallery 2 and project space
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2007 fall graduates display their thesis projects in all types of media: painting,...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Saturday 11/17 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Saturday 11/17 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Lucky Plush Productions: Cinderbox 18
Saturday 11/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Julia Rhoads — Chicago's eight-year queen of clean, fluid choreography with surreal and comic touches — dives headfirst into uncharted waters...
Saturday 11/17 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ moniquemeloche gallery
American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard...
Saturday 11/17 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Saturday 11/17 @ Gallery 40000
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Saturday 11/17 @ Music Box Theatre
As Thanksgiving draws near, Chicagoans' thoughts turn to drumsticks, punkin' pie, and that inevitable travel-plan disaster. In Planes, Trains and Automobiles,...
Saturday 11/17 @ Western Exhibitions
Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Congress Theater
Is there anything more tiresome than punk-rock nostalgia? Of course! There’s a reason you still hear Naked Raygun blasting nightly at...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 11/17 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
