Events on Saturday, November 22
Saturday 11/22 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
Founded in 2003 by the needle-wielding ladies of the Chicago Craft Mafia, the DIY Trunk Show is an annual holiday-season must...
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Saturday 11/22 @ Bottom Lounge
Unlike the band's namesake — elusive playwright in Wes Anderson's delightful The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) — bittersweet indie collective Margot &...
Saturday 11/22 @ Roots & Culture
Collecting 10 experimental film and video works produced in 2008, curator Alexander Stewart examines the themes, attitudes, and media used by...
Saturday 11/22 @ The Hideout
For their latest release, Motion to Rejoin, Alabama earthies Brightblack Morning Light conjured longhair folk spirits at a solar-powered desert studio...
Saturday 11/22 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Long before a certain snarky film about a certain snarky pregnant teenager propelled Kimya Dawson to household-name status, the former Moldy...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/22 @ Links Hall
Proposing himself as a kind of Tim Gunn for the queer performance-art set, Tim Miller took a break from his life...
Saturday 11/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike...
Saturday 11/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Saturday 11/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Before going on to direct some of the greatest films of all time, including Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago...
Saturday 11/22 @ Old Tower Records
Instead of spending Christmas Eve shuffling through the clearance racks at whatever store happens to be open, get your holiday shopping...
Saturday 11/22 @ 65GRAND
The tangible and the ephemeral have a dance in Daniel Johnson's exhibition (curated by Melanie Schiff), which pairs photographs of reflections...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar....
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Saturday 11/22 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
A bunch of children singing carols about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard sounds like the recipe for an episode of South...
Saturday 11/22 @ Donald Young Gallery
In Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's current exhibition, dusty cultural icons like the atomic bomb and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome are reborn as sleek...
Saturday 11/22 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Saturday 11/22 @ Athenaeum Theatre
The singular H.P. Lovecraft casts a substantial shadow over modern horror fiction, and although his grandiloquent tales of "cosmic terror" aren't...
Saturday 11/22 @ Zg Gallery
With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both...
Saturday 11/22 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Saturday 11/22 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Saturday 11/22 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the...
Saturday 11/22 @ Abbey Pub
Of all the conceptual pranks Camper Van Beethoven have pulled off over their 25 years, nothing tops the band's inexplicable fling...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Sure, many people find the holidays depressing, but at least you're not a functionally alcoholic Dublin undertaker whose estranged daughter shows...
Saturday 11/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Saturday 11/22 @ Golden
Helsinki-born, Spain-based Riiko Sakkinen's work appeals to hungry global palates, offering a witty update of the pop-art aesthetic. Stealing source materials...
Saturday 11/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to...
Saturday 11/22 @ Various locations
The Select Media Festival, produced by the nonprofit Public Media Institute, presents a week of experimental new-media shenanigans at Bridgeport's Co-Prosperity...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Saturday 11/22 @ Dan Devening Project+Editions
Michael Pfisterer's recent photographs collect multiple views of 19th-century mathematical models on single large sheets of white paper, depicting these varied...
Saturday 11/22 @ Music Box Theatre
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour
Saturday 11/22 @ Various locations
Some of us work out our issues in group therapy, benefiting from the wisdom of our peers. Those who can afford...
Saturday 11/22 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully...
Saturday 11/22 @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
If you like your holiday entertainment gentle, heartwarming, and family-friendly, this is the show for you. Based on Sally Benson's short...
Saturday 11/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Foodies have always known that locally-grown, seasonal ingredients are fresher, tastier, and more nutritious. But facing an economic crisis and climate...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Saturday 11/22 @ The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a...
Saturday 11/22 @ Rowland Contemporary
For Karen Lebergott, mapping is a conceptual departure point that sets off multiple trajectories. Her oil paintings suggest Chinese landscapes or...
Saturday 11/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes...
Saturday 11/22 @ Graham Foundation
Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a...
Saturday 11/22 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with...
Saturday 11/22 @ Wilmette Theatre
Fans of coming-of-age stories like Catcher in the Rye and The Graduate should enjoy new indie film Humboldt County, the tale...
Saturday 11/22 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
Saturday 11/22 @ Roots & Culture
Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings...
Saturday 11/22 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 11/22 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art...
Saturday 11/22 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Saturday 11/22 @ Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 11/22 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
