Events on Saturday, March 15
Saturday 3/15 @ Chicago Filmmakers
With Fugazi on indefinite hiatus, Instrument might be the closest thing we'll get to another one of their legendary $5 performances....
Saturday 3/15 @ Logan Square Auditorium
After self-producing Original Soul in 2004, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals turned down a record label and hit the road. Playing...
Saturday 3/15 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
For all of Hollywood's self-congratulatory boasts of progressivism, it's still pretty much a boys' club — AFI's list of the 100...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/15 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Shirley Mordine's dances can overcome you at any moment. Rather than orchestrating a succession of climaxes through build and release, she...
Saturday 3/15 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Saturday 3/15 @ Gescheidle
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts...
Saturday 3/15 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show...
Saturday 3/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective....
Saturday 3/15 @ The Blue Theatre
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —...
Saturday 3/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
British director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism....
Saturday 3/15 @ Extension Gallery
Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange...
Saturday 3/15 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
Saturday 3/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US...
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday 3/15 @ The Annoyance Theatre
Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just...
Saturday 3/15 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only...
Saturday 3/15 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday 3/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio...
Saturday 3/15 @ The Newberry Library
If you're one of the Americans who still enjoys literature — sadly, fewer than 50% of US adults do — head...
Saturday 3/15 @ Music Box Theatre
Forgive Bruce Weber for his sculpted Abercrombie and Fitch ads or his too-chic-for-comfort Calvin Klein photography if only to fully appreciate...
A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking
Saturday 3/15 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
Co-Prosperity Sphere's Radar Eyes exhibition showcases over 50 artists' experimental prints evoking altered states, perceptual distortions, and outright hallucinations. The trippy...
Saturday 3/15 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series...
Saturday 3/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor...
Saturday 3/15 @ Stage 773
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner...
Saturday 3/15 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Saturday 3/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Author/director Paul Auster has been plumbing his internal depths ever since he debuted with The Invention of Solitude. The...
Saturday 3/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,...
Saturday 3/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring...
Saturday 3/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 3/15 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
