Events on Saturday, January 3
Saturday Shorts: Found Object Creations
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
There is a long tradition of found objects in the history of art, from Duchamp's readymades — such as 1917's infamous...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Lakeshore Theater
By now, you're probably tired of board games with the family for the holidays and drinking games with the friends for...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
If you like your holiday entertainment gentle, heartwarming, and family-friendly, this is the show for you. Based on Sally Benson's short...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer...
Saturday 1/ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Graham Foundation
Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
Perhaps the perfect midnight movie, animator Ralph Bakshi's X-rated Heavy Traffic plays like a cross between a gritty Bukowski novel and...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ House of Blues
Big Black may be the most lauded Chicago act to have emerged from the '80s American underground, but Naked Raygun is...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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 1/ 3 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Various locations
Get a kick start on your New Year's resolution to lose last year's weight gain with two free weeks at the...
Saturday 1/ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 1/ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Saturday 1/ 3 @ The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
Chicago is quietly producing some of the nation's most innovative and thoughtful young curators, and it's evidenced by No End in...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Sure, many people find the holidays depressing, but at least you're not a functionally alcoholic Dublin undertaker whose estranged daughter shows...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 1/ 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...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Dan Devening Project+Editions
Michael Pfisterer's recent photographs collect multiple views of 19th-century mathematical models on single large sheets of white paper, depicting these varied...
Saturday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 1/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
