Events on Saturday, September 20
Saturday 9/20 @ The Empty Bottle
In support of his grand new album, Love to Make Music To, Daedelus' whirlwind world tour makes a stop at the...
Saturday 9/20 @ Subterranean
We Are Wolves aren't the only canines in the indie-rock pack (or even in Montreal, for that matter), but they are...
Saturday 9/20 @ Abbey Pub
With their Catskills manners, feel-good refrains, and an occasional harmonica interlude, the Felice Brothers claim they "sound like a barn smells."...
Ongoing Events
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Saturday 9/20 @ Western Exhibitions
Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western...
Saturday 9/20 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea...
Saturday 9/20 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Saturday 9/20 @ Gallery 400
Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and...
Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
Saturday 9/20 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Rashid Johnson is one of the more promising young artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years, with photographs and sculptures...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Saturday 9/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the...
Saturday 9/20 @ The Playground Theater
The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Saturday 9/20 @ Swimming Pool Project Space
Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
Saturday 9/20 @ Normal Projects
Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by...
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Saturday 9/20 @ Crown Hall
This exhibition provides a thorough visual survey of Brazil's modern architecture. Photographs, drawings, and design concepts profile the work of well-established...
Saturday 9/20 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist...
12th Annual Hideout Block Party
Saturday 9/20 @ The Hideout
If ever there were a good reason to crowd into a huge parking lot in the industrial district, it's the 12th...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ City Gallery
Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views....
Saturday 9/20 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of...
Saturday 9/20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The artists featured in the documentary Beautiful Losers were hardly the first to root their work in street art, but they...
Saturday 9/20 @ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a...
Saturday 9/20 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
Saturday 9/20 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 9/20 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
