Events on Tuesday, December 30
Tuesday 12/30 @ Schubas
Built from the wreckage of the late, great Shrimp Boat, arty popsters the Sea and Cake are the frothy confection their...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Cobra Lounge
As kids, the members of Denton, Texas-based the Wax Museums clearly binged on Ramones records. As such, the band's classic take...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/30 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Allstate Arena
If you're lovingly forced to spend the weekend lull between Christmas and New Year's with your family, escape the house for...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
Tuesday 12/30 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Tuesday 12/30 @ The Hideout
It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Tuesday 12/30 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
Chicago is quietly producing some of the nation's most innovative and thoughtful young curators, and it's evidenced by No End in...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Music Box Theatre
If the winter doldrums have got you down, the Music Box's weeklong run of West Side Story is sure to get...
Tuesday 12/30 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/30 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Roman Polanski opens his dad-may-be-the-devil classic with a lugubrious lullaby and a pan across Manhattan's gloomy skyline. Within a few frames,...
