Events on Saturday, December 22
Saturday 12/22 @ Reggies Rock Club
Naked Raygun — the iconic, Chicago first-wave punk band that disbanded in the early '90s — are "back for good." Since...
Rock 'n Roll Christmas Weekend
Saturday 12/22 @ Logan Square Auditorium
If the so-called "garage-rock revival" had birthed more bands like SSM, the phrase wouldn't have become such a lazy insult to...
Saturday 12/22 @ Schubas
Cover bands are the redheaded stepchildren of the music world, but when the band has a tight act, you gotta admit...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/22 @ 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...
Saturday 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Film school isn't supposed to be like high school, with angsty teens shoving one another up against lockers and spewing threats...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 12/22 @ 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...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday 12/22 @ Smart Museum of Art
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio...
Saturday 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ Daley Plaza
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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...
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth
Saturday 12/22 @ Green Lantern
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original...
Saturday 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
