Events on Tuesday, January 20
Tuesday 1/20 @ Daley Plaza
You can either remember the coldest day recorded in Chicago's history with a warm cup of cocoa next to a crackling fire, or...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ The Hideout
It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Auditorium Theatre
After Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined television sketch comedy, the troupe turned its attention to feature films. With financing help from...
Tuesday 1/20 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Elastic Arts Foundation
Starting tonight, chronic collaborator and darling to Chicago jazzbos Ken Vandermark reignites his Vandermark 5 for a three-week Tuesday night residency...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Tony Wight Gallery
However you want to describe them — stately busts for a post-marble age; eerie Frankenstein constructions; a poacher's trophies from the...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Tuesday 1/20 @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and...
Tuesday 1/20 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Tuesday 1/20 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Tuesday 1/20 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
