Events on Thursday, December 4
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Schubas
When King of the Sad Sacks David Bazan hung up his beloved Pedro the Lion moniker, armies of sensitive indie rockers...
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Vic Theatre
While Amy Winehouse has traded her "queen of new soul" title for "princess hot mess," Sharon Jones — who was and...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
'Tis the season for celebrating with family and friends. But the most wonderful time of the year can turn positively nerve-racking...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ threewalls
West Loop gallery ThreeWalls hosts the latest installment of its SALON series, "The artist in the field," which seeks to explore...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/ 4 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 4 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 4 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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 Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol
Thursday 12/ 4 @ The Neo-Futurarium
It's not exactly how Charles Dickens envisioned Christmas Eve in Ebenezer Scrooge's life, but this political and interactive remaking of the...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 4 @ 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...
