Events on Wednesday, December 26
Wednesday 12/26 @ The Empty Bottle
Whenever a band combines rock with classical elements, it recalls Robert Christgau's slide on Pete Townshend: "He didn't want to drag...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/26 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday 12/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Wednesday 12/26 @ Music Box Theatre
Twenty-five years of hindsight, miraculously complete extra footage, and a serious need for closure all conspired to make Warner Brothers trot...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Wednesday 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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 12/26 @ 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...
