Events on Sunday, January 18
Sunday 1/18 @ Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Leslie Hindman was first internationally recognized when she discovered and sold a previously unknown still life by Van Gogh in 1991...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/18 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 1/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Sunday 1/18 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Sunday 1/18 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Sunday 1/18 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Sunday 1/18 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
Sunday 1/18 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Sunday 1/18 @ Smart Museum of Art
China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it...
Sunday 1/18 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
8th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Sunday 1/18 @ Stage 773
The world's largest sketch-comedy festival returns for another year with over 100 troupes performing 125 shows at the Theatre Building. The...
Sunday 1/18 @ The Goodman Theatre
Set on a rugged New England farm in 1850, Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms stacks up human passions like firewood...
Sunday 1/18 @ 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...
Sunday 1/18 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 1/18 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Sunday 1/18 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Sunday 1/18 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Sunday 1/18 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Sunday 1/18 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Sunday 1/18 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Sunday 1/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Sunday 1/18 @ 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...
Sunday 1/18 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Sunday 1/18 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Sunday 1/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike...
Sunday 1/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artists from Matisse to Rothko have topped off their careers by designing chapels that serve as places of spiritual contemplation and...
Sunday 1/18 @ Schubas
In the dead of winter, when the city's rock venues are sleepy and the summer festival season is a fading dream,...
Sunday 1/18 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with...
