Events on Saturday, May 17
Zines, Comics, and Other Hip Lit Fair
Saturday 5/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Quimby's and the MCA join forces for this indie-journalism bonanza. The event gives zine fans a look at new publishers and...
SpiderBug presents Rube Goldberg Failures
Saturday 5/17 @ Deadtech
Tonight's screening features short films loosely tied to the theme of "Rube Goldberg Failures." Goldberg's drawings depicted absurdly complex inventions; the...
Saturday 5/17 @ Chicago Cultural Center
In 2002, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv's parents revealed a harrowing, 25-year-old secret: her family had barely survived the brutal Khmer Rouge regime...
Saturday 5/17 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
Whether yours was a Pretty in Pink fairytale, a traumatic Carrie ordeal, or simply the most awkward episode of Saturday Night...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/17 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Saturday 5/17 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Saturday 5/17 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Saturday 5/17 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their...
Saturday 5/17 @ Porchlight Theatre
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2....
Saturday 5/17 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Saturday 5/17 @ Auditorium Theatre
Last we checked, high-modernist dance peaked at 1972's Stravinsky Festival, and what followed hasn't improved much with age — which makes...
Saturday 5/17 @ Music Box Theatre
Return to Oz (1985) is the highly stylized semi-sequel to 1939's mega-classic. It picks up with Dorothy a few months after...
Saturday 5/17 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we...
Saturday 5/17 @ International Museum of Surgical Science
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays...
Saturday 5/17 @ Chicago Cultural Center
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
Saturday 5/17 @ Gallery 400
Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space...
Saturday 5/17 @ Various locations
Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's...
Saturday 5/17 @ Tony Wight Gallery
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday 5/17 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Saturday 5/17 @ Various locations
Whereas the sketch comedians of Schadenfreude were once a cult sensation, these days they're operating squarely above-ground. Turns out it's hard...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Saturday 5/17 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina...
Saturday 5/17 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Chicago Theatre
Only Eddie Izzard could make wearing jeans and loafers an act of subversion. For Stripped, the "executive transvestite" British comic retires...
Saturday 5/17 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that...
Saturday 5/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Male perspectives dominate public dialogue about the Iraq War (about most wars, in fact). Smothered in praise since its 2003 UK...
Saturday 5/17 @ Music Box Theatre
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Saturday 5/17 @ AV-aerie
After combing the American mythos of early-to-mid-'70s rock in Mystery Train, Greil Marcus looked to Europe in search of punk's hidden...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/17 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
