Events on Saturday, January 12
Saturday 1/12 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
Canadian artist Rachel Beach crafts wood sculptures that radiate a bewitching energy. Wall-mounted, the pieces resemble paintings with their accents of...
10 Years of Mail from Bruno Richard
Saturday 1/12 @ Mess Hall
After a decade of correspondence with iconoclastic, Paris-based artist Bruno Richard, Marc Fischer has accumulated over 60 pounds of the underground...
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Saturday 1/12 @ Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
Choosing the vegetarian option can often mean an unbalanced, boring bean burrito or limp macaroni and cheese. Whether you're new to...
Winter Carnival Masquerade Party
Saturday 1/12 @ Abbey Pub
Time to get out the black eyeliner, kids — the gothic circus is coming to town. Tonight's freakshow carnival matches goth...
Saturday 1/12 @ The Galaxie
The Revelettes, a local dance troupe that channels the spirit of '60s go-go dancing, are sending out the call for new...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/12 @ Music Box Theatre
How can a writer ensure that a film adaptation will be faithful to his original tale? He directs it himself,...
Saturday 1/12 @ The Renaissance Society
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ 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...
Saturday 1/12 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared...
Saturday 1/12 @ Music Box Theatre
If you've never seen a silent movie — or, at least, not on the big screen — let this be it....
Saturday 1/12 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Saturday 1/12 @ 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...
Saturday 1/12 @ 65GRAND
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at...
Saturday 1/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Last year, Todd Haynes reimagined Bob Dylan's fabled 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance as a literal (i.e. gun-toting) assault. Dylan's chameleonic...
Saturday 1/12 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath...
Saturday 1/12 @ 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...
Saturday 1/12 @ Western Exhibitions
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke....
Saturday 1/12 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Saturday 1/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 1/12 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
