Events on Saturday, July 26
Saturday 7/26 @ Washington Square Park
From the '20s to the '60s, Chicago's Washington Square Park was a hotbed of rhetoric, as poets, preachers, left-wing agitators, and...
Saturday 7/26 @ The Empty Bottle
From the beginning, the LA-based art rocker Ariel Pink has been a love-him-or-hate-him sort of guy. His mix of muddied home...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/26 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode —...
Saturday 7/26 @ Various locations
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style....
Saturday 7/26 @ Links Hall
In his acclaimed 2003 work Us, Tim Miller goes into forced exile when his British partner's visa expires and he's not...
Saturday 7/26 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of...
Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
Saturday 7/26 @ Western Exhibitions
If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh...
Saturday 7/26 @ Garfield Park Conservatory
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little...
Saturday 7/26 @ Wicker Park
As Chicago neighborhoods go, Wicker Park isn't exactly flying under the radar, so this annual festival celebrates the area's communal energy,...
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
Saturday 7/26 @ Navy Pier
The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday 7/26 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Saturday 7/26 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press....
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ threewalls
Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,...
Saturday 7/26 @ Music Box Theatre
Pointedly personal and unapologetically polemical, Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 invitation into a wonderful well of weird. The offbeat classic is...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Despite a well-respected decades-long career, painter William Utermohlen didn't enjoy widespread fame until he became unable to make art or communicate....
Saturday 7/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Local artist Gisela Insuaste mines the terrain of personal recollection and material culture for her multidisciplinary installations. In painting, drawing, and...
Saturday 7/26 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both...
Saturday 7/26 @ Music Box Theatre
Cinema hottie-turned-salad-dressing connosieur Paul Newman stars in this Oscar-winning drama about cattle disease, rape, and other frontier tomfoolery, inspired partly by...
Saturday 7/26 @ 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...
Saturday 7/26 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Saturday 7/26 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits...
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ National Museum of Mexican Art
It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way...
Zachary Cahill: The Best Laid Plans
Saturday 7/26 @ DOVA Temporary
Explicitly political art has fallen out of favor in recent decades, although there have been signs of a comeback as the...
Saturday 7/26 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has...
Saturday 7/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in...
Saturday 7/26 @ Music Box Theatre
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Saturday 7/26 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
As China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs,...
Saturday 7/26 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star as Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw, two lounge singers and best friends who travel to...
Saturday 7/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much...
Saturday 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ 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 7/26 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Figurative painter Jane Fisher returns to Chicago with her latest series of paintings: a simple celebration of humanity entitled Big Heads...
Saturday 7/26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 7/26 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
