Events on Saturday, December 15
Saturday 12/15 @ Citizen
Citizen's 2,000-square-foot patio makes this River North hotspot a happy-hour staple, but don't let the cocktail crowds fool you. Chef Eric...
Saturday 12/15 @ threewalls
Join the crew of ThreeWalls artist-residency and gallery space for their annual holiday fundraiser/party/silent auction — with a pirate twist. (Even...
Saturday 12/15 @ Metro
In order to record the Wu-Tang Clan's fifth album, the RZA had to drag the guys into the studio (Ghostface's solo...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Thrill Jockey 15th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday 12/15 @ Logan Square Auditorium
After doing time at a major label — where the corporate bottom line trumped all else — talent scout and music...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ Music Box Theatre
You've got to hand it to the guy who brought both Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Beetle Juice to the big screen...
Saturday 12/15 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
The 800 lb Gorilla in the Room
Saturday 12/15 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Shirley Mordine says she's "throwing down the glove" with this new festival, a collection of lucid, socially relevant work nestled deep...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth
Saturday 12/15 @ Green Lantern
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original...
Saturday 12/15 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Links Hall
Assessing dance as a conduit for desire, Asimina Chremos digs into one of ballet's most transcendent moments: Dame Margot Fonteyn's career...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 12/15 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
