Events on Saturday, May 24
Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Dan Nadel
Saturday 5/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Emmy-winning graphic artist Gary Panter — designer for Pee-Wee's Playhouse and album-cover artist for Frank Zappa and the Red Hot...
Saturday 5/24 @ Logan Square Auditorium
They might have called this bill the Time Machine Tour: Opening act Gabby Glaser mines a rich vein of 1970s soul...
Saturday 5/24 @ Reggies Rock Club
A long-running, Felix the Cat-obsessed pop-punk act from New Hampshire, the Queers add bubblegum harmonies and proto-emo lovesickness to Beach Boys-worshipping...
Saturday 5/24 @ Riviera Theatre
Rilo Kiley have had to clean themselves up to appeal to a wider audience; last year's Under the Blacklight transported the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 5/24 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ Alfedena Gallery
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ 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 5/24 @ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Saturday 5/24 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday 5/24 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/24 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
