Events on Saturday, December 6
Saturday Shorts: Artist Trading Cards
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
If you think trading cards are merely the purview of Pokémon- and baseball-obsessed 12-year-olds, think again. For many artists, like Chuck...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Bottom Lounge
The Chicago-based, 31-piece orchestra, Mucca Pazza, bring their punk circus marching band show to the Bottom Lounge along with experimentally inclined...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Vision Nightclub
If Matthew Dear's Detriot-influenced techno sound satisfies your weekly thump quota, give fellow Detroiter DJ Ryan Elliott a listen. Elliott leads...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 65GRAND
The tangible and the ephemeral have a dance in Daniel Johnson's exhibition (curated by Melanie Schiff), which pairs photographs of reflections...
Lincoln Square Christkindl Market
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Leland & Western Aves
If you're looking for the feel of a traditional German holiday celebration without the crowd at downtown's Christkindlmarket or the expense...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Rowland Contemporary
For Karen Lebergott, mapping is a conceptual departure point that sets off multiple trajectories. Her oil paintings suggest Chinese landscapes or...
Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
The DIY sale that began in Wicker Park and moved on to both coasts is continuing a holiday tradition only found...
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Music Box Theatre
Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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...
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ Music Box Theatre
The Flaming Lips' emphasis on splendiferous spectacle and good-natured weirdness is potent enough that a critic recently questioned if it might...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 12/ 6 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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...
12th Annual Festival of French Cinema
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Following our president-elect's lead, we're on track to become mindful world citizens again — there's no better place to start than...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Beat Kitchen
Whether you're a newbie to the genre — perhaps brought into the fold by Thurston Moore's recent coffee-table book — or...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 12/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ AV-aerie
In keeping with their mission of cultural community building, the good folks at art/performance space AV-Aerie have been staging this handmade-goods...
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Music Box Theatre
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 12/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
