Events on Tuesday, December 9
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Guthrie's Tavern
If you're looking for a place where it's safe to say, "I'm too sexy for my glasses," you're in luck. Tonight,...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Schubas
A club superstar for the American Apparel set, French popster Sebastien Tellier toes the line between bangin' electroclash and unrepentant new...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Bond Chapel
The Renaissance Society's eclectic concert series presents another enchanting offering: one of the world's most accomplished accordion players, Teodoro Anzellotti, performs...
The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ The Second City e.t.c.
During the 24 hours of comedy and music at Second City's seventh-annual benefit to provide holiday gifts for needy kids, something's...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
12th Annual Festival of French Cinema
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
