Events on Saturday, December 8
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
Chicago history is flush with forward-thinking visionaries and trailblazing activists of the female persuasion, but social reformer, suffragist, and Nobel Prize-winner...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Green Lantern
Micah Maidenberg hosts a live auction of "skill- and resource-sharing" goodies to benefit the upcoming issue of AREA Chicago, which will...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ House of Blues
Amon Amarth aren't too fond of their shirts, even in December. Being Vikings from Sweden, they're used to the cold and...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ AV-aerie
The MIYUMI Project, fronted by
Treasures from the Library of Congress
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
This jewel-box collection of rare shorts, curated by Mike Mashon of the Library of Congress' Moving Image Section, is a decade-by-decade...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island, If You Were the Last One on Earth
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Green Lantern
Remote Sighs from a Desert Island evokes the haunting feeling of being secretly watched. Objects are taken out of their original...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Rowland Contemporary
Chicago-based painter Jason Karolak's prodigious oil paintings evoke a feeling of intense satisfaction; he enthralls the viewer with vast, looping strokes...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Neo-Futurarium
In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
