Events on Saturday, August 2
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery
Some of the most meaningful encounters with art provide a real feeling of discovery, like coming across something extraordinary where you...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Multitalented music vet Joe Carducci has worn many (rad) hats in the industry. In the '70s, the Naperville native ran a...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ House of Blues
Britain's flagship post-punk revivalists, Bloc Party, are in the midst of a makeover. The quartet's latest singles, "Flux" and "Mercury," have...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Metro
Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene features an ever-rotating collective of musicians, many hand-plucked (former member Feist, anyone?) from Toronto's indie-rock underground....
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Bottom Lounge
Encyclopaedia Metallum lists a whopping 12 bands named Witchcraft, two of which are from Sweden. Only one of these bands sports...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Green City Winter Market
The humble honeybee has gotten lots of press lately: in films (Bee Movie), novels (The Secret Life of Bees), and buzzing...
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Saturday 8/ 2 @ The Empty Bottle
Unlike their namesake, elusive playwright Margot Tenenbaum in quirky Wes Anderson delight The Royal Tenenbaums, bittersweet indie collective Margot & the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Chicago Art Department
With the death knell sounding for Polaroid film, there's been an upsurge of exhibitions centering on those much-loved instant photos. But...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Hyde Park Art Center
For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Black Harvest International Festival
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
All month long, the Gene Siskel Film Center screens critically acclaimed movies that focus on the black community. This is the...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Zachary Cahill: The Best Laid Plans
Saturday 8/ 2 @ DOVA Temporary
Explicitly political art has fallen out of favor in recent decades, although there have been signs of a comeback as the...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Greenhouse Theater
Route 66 Theatre Company's production of John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day sold out its inaugural run in Los Angeles, where...
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[POSTPONED] Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Lakeshore Theater
With her wide-eyed innocence, retro sensibility, and daffy enthusiasm, Kristen Schaal is a Jazz Age flapper at a Zelda Fitzgerald garden...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Howard Henry Chen's exhibition at the MCA is made up of just four artworks — a photographic triptych and three sculptural...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
This brilliant paranoiac-critical black comedy finds a mild-mannered Trelkovsky (played by Roman Polanski) scoring the Paris apartment of his dreams, only...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Grant Park
No need for pithy adages about beating the heat or keepin' cool when you're talking Lollapalooza: there ain't a force on...
Saturday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
Jean-Luc Godard's 45-year-old masterpiece Contempt is still a conundrum. Coming off a run of shoestring gems, the French New Wave icon...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 8/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
