Events on Saturday, September 6
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The success of the Ukrainian Village toy store Rotofugi owes a debt to the popularity of plush characters, and...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Beverly Arts Center
A shining, but often overlooked star of the same '60s folk scene that included titans like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez,...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Double Door
Sons and Daughters are the offspring of Arab Strap, the gloomy Scottish band that successfully married pub-life pessimism to sharp indie-rock...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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...
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Gallery 400
Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 9/ 6 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 9/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Lakeshore Theater
Rick Shapiro built his reputation in New York as an underground comedian with an unstable streak. After working his way through...
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966)
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bravado to muse on the title's double...
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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....
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
