Events on Sunday, November 25

Jazz String Quintet

Music

Jazz String Quintet

Sunday 11/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center

The roots of classical music in jazz were well planted by Ellington, Coltrane, and Parker, but the two genres' diverging dialogs... 

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Special Event

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Sunday 11/25 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Artist Aaron Hughes and members of the IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) convene to introduce their recent visual protests against... 

Telefon Tel Aviv w/ James Curd and James Lauer

Music: DJ

Telefon Tel Aviv

Sunday 11/25 @ SmartBar

Each Sunday night, SmartBar offers one last chance to lose it before yet another weekend slips away. This week, Chicago electronic... 

Ongoing Events

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

Film

The Telephone Book

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Casting a Shadow

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

Sunday 11/25 @ 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>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

Vivien Park: <i>Head Games</i>

Art

Head Games

Sunday 11/25 @ Mini Dutch Gallery

Sculptor/painter Vivien Park makes an ambitious debut for her first solo show at Mini Dutch, the recently opened Logan Square apartment... 

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

Film

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

<i>Lynch</i>

Film: Documentary

Lynch

Sunday 11/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

David Lynch is one of modern cinema's true artists, if also one of its most infuriating. This new documentary — directed... 

<I>Show [Title to Be Determined by Symbols Not Yet Rendered]</I>

Art

Show [Title to Be Determined by Symbols Not Yet Rendered]

Sunday 11/25 @ Roots & Culture

With four collaborators and the utopian spirit of '60s- and '70s-era communes, curator and artist Aline Cautis presents a three-day lesson... 

Christkindlmarket

City Gems

Christkindlmarket

Sunday 11/25 @ Daley Plaza

Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter... 

Cody Hudson

Art

Cody Hudson

Sunday 11/25 @ 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>Meanwhile in Baghdad…</I>

Art

Meanwhile in Baghdad…

Sunday 11/25 @ The Renaissance Society

How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —... 

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

<i>Margot at the Wedding</i>

Film

Margot at the Wedding

Sunday 11/25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Director Noah Baumbach's breakthrough film, The Squid and the Whale, featured Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels as a squabbling Brooklyn couple... 

<i>Chalk</i>

Theatre

Chalk

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Sunday 11/25 @ 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... 

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Art

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Sunday 11/25 @ 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...