Events on Wednesday, September 3
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Millennium Park
Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird vanquishes the violin. Not only does Bird (signed to Ani DiFranco's...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Sonotheque
The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to Sonotheque. In conjunction...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ The Pavilion at Ravinia
In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance. The San Francisco ensemble's dossier...
Ongoing Events
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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....
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Gallery 400
Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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....
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Grapes & Hops: A Celebration of Wine and Beer
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Chicago Botanic Garden
The best way to brush up on a topic is through first-hand experience. With that in mind, the Regenstein Fruit &...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Directors Lucia Small and Ed Pincus cut their teeth on the old-school concept of documentaries: filmmaker as fly on the wall....
