Events on Wednesday, December 12
Green City Market Chef Demonstration
Wednesday 12/12 @ Green City Winter Market
Chicago native Bruce Sherman crisscrossed the globe — attending the London School of Economics, living in New Delhi, and studying haute...
Wednesday 12/12 @ Beverly Arts Center
A less-than-objective love letter to the former president, Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains chronicles the octogenarian's recent book tour for Palestine:...
Wednesday 12/12 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
The 13-member Asiko Afrobeat ensemble may hail from New York, but their ass-shaking rhythms and bombastic, booty-twirling beats are strictly Nigerian....
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/12 @ Double Door
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive...
Wednesday 12/12 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Wednesday 12/12 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Wednesday 12/12 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ Western Exhibitions
Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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
Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...
