Events on Tuesday, December 11
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Tuesday 12/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Chris Burden is one of the more cringe-worthy performance artists of the '70s. His name is nearly synonymous with his 1971...
Tuesday 12/11 @ Schubas
Afro-pop-inspired rockers Vampire Weekend hit the town tonight for a hyper-literate, Paul Simon-esque set of catchy indie anthems. While the press...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Unseen maps come to life with Connectivity, a solo show of visual and performance art by Sara Schnadt. As part of...
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/11 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Tuesday 12/11 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Tuesday 12/11 @ Double Door
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive...
Tuesday 12/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art...
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/11 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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,...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Tuesday 12/11 @ 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...
