Events on Sunday, October 12
Sunday 10/12 @ Metro
Critics immediately embraced Fleet Foxes' two recent releases — the Sun Giant EP and their self-titled debut album — causing the...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/12 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 10/12 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery...
Sunday 10/12 @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of...
Sunday 10/12 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history...
Sunday 10/12 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Sunday 10/12 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of...
Sunday 10/12 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Sunday 10/12 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Reptile Breeders Conference & Trade Show
Sunday 10/12 @ Tinley Park Holiday Inn Select
Apparently, a herpetologist is not a medical specialist who treats the consequences of misbehavior in the alley behind John Barleycorn. If...
Sunday 10/12 @ City Gallery
Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views....
Sunday 10/12 @ The Chicago Theatre
Kathy Griffin's mouth has gotten her into a lot of trouble over the years. Her infamous 2007 Emmy speech allegedly (one...
Sunday 10/12 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Sunday 10/12 @ The Suburban
The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in...
Sunday 10/12 @ Hyde Park Art Center
For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 10/12 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Sunday 10/12 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Sunday 10/12 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Released, weighted dancing, written in boldface and arranged into giant shapes, reigns as the style of the moment, yet Toru Shimazaki...
Sunday 10/12 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Sunday 10/12 @ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...
Sunday 10/12 @ Millennium Park
To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want...
Sunday 10/12 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea...
Sunday 10/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Mike Daisey takes the stage looking like your schlubby, good-natured cousin and armed only with a glass of water and a...
Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Sunday 10/12 @ Swimming Pool Project Space
Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or...
Sunday 10/12 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Sunday 10/12 @ Navy Pier
The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic...
Sunday 10/12 @ Chicago Art Department
Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In...
Sunday 10/12 @ Smart Museum of Art
China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it...
Sunday 10/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer...
Sunday 10/12 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
Sunday 10/12 @ Music Box Theatre
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...
