Events on Saturday, November 3
Saturday 11/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Hintonhis, this 60-minute documentary explores the Cape Farewell Project, an organization of artists, scientists, and educators...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ The Empty Bottle
Sunset Rubdown was once just a home for good songs that couldn't join the Wolf Parade, dressed like orphans in oddball...
Old Town School of Folk Music's Open House
Saturday 11/ 3 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
With outposts in Lincoln Park and Ravenswood, the Old Town School of Folk Music hasn't been based in Old Town for...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ The Empty Bottle
Created in 2005 by Helsinki-based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, the choral-comedy concept Complaints Choir has quickly spread around the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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...
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Saturday 11/ 3 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, The Seasons
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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....
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Terry Evans dazzled us with her long-term aerial photography project, Revealing Chicago, which illuminated the "urban prairie" landscape of our area...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ Gescheidle
Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic,...
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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,...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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
Saturday 11/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
