Events on Wednesday, December 3
Vintage Couture and Accessories Auction
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
The quatra-annual auctions of vintage couture at elegant West Loop auction house Leslie Hindman are stuffed with drool-worthy, super-pricey luxuries like...
First Nations Film Festival: Four Sheets to the Wind
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Beverly Arts Center
Forget Dances with Wolves. Looking past Hollywood's historical pageantry and shrugging aside stereotypes, the First Nations Film and Video Festival provides...
Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In May 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed from Germany carrying over 900 Jewish refugees seeking safe haven from the Nazi...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Metro
On her solo debut, Brechtian cabaret punk and Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer checks out of Hot Topic and into adulthood....
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
All of the original Muppet movies are exemplars of awesomeness, but Jim Henson's second effort, The Great Muppet Caper, was allegedly...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
Like his 1928 masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath concerns a woman sentenced to...
