Events on Saturday, December 1
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Olivia Newton John plays a heaven-sent, leg warmer-clad muse who encourages a frustrated artist to realize his dreams by, um, opening...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ The Note
In the Red Records has put out some of the finest garage-rock albums of the last few years. Bands like the...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Spudnik Press
Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, more than 20 printmakers showcase their artistic genius to benefit West Town print...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ The Empty Bottle
Prefuse 73 is the brainchild of Scott Herren, who began his career in Atlanta's commercial studios. His tracks bridge the gap...
Old Town School of Folk Music 50th Anniversary
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Auditorium Theatre
Many would agree that the Old Town School of Folk Music (or as some affectionately call it, "Old School") is one...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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...
It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Crispin Glover has earned his status as one of Hollywood's preeminent weirdos. Reducing his cult appeal to simple eccentricity is unfair,...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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...
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Green Lantern
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ AV-aerie
Everyone knows how spirit-crushing department stores can be around Christmas. When one considers how much overseas-crafted junk you've bought from underpaid...
Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
