Events on Monday, December 1
Monday 12/ 1 @ School of the Art Institute Auditorium
Like John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, fellow travelers on the contemporary path of figurative painting, Inka Essenhigh's works are sumptuous and...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Doc Films
With its measured, leisurely pacing, two-plus hours running time, and paucity of dialogue, acclaimed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times does...
Walking Bicycles w/ Plastic Crimewave Sound
Monday 12/ 1 @ The Empty Bottle
Chicago-via-Cali transplants Walking Bicycles play nervous post-punk wrapped in a blanket of West Coast fog. Their songs throb with urgent bass...
Ongoing Events
Monday 12/ 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Monday 12/ 1 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm
Monday 12/ 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Don't be too complacent about that breezy Cosmo headline promising "ten G-spot toys you'll love." As Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori's...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
It takes more than a tutorial in Adobe Illustrator to make someone an artist. Extraordinary computer design and illustration rely on...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
Monday 12/ 1 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Monday 12/ 1 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 1 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 12/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
