Events on Saturday, January 31
John Sparagana Book Launch feat. Glenn Kotche
Saturday 1/31 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
John Sparagana's new book, Sleeping Beauty, is an inventive collaboration with critic/theorist Mieke Bal, pairing the artist's spider-webbed series of distressed...
Saturday 1/31 @ UIC Pavilion
Chicago was a focal point for roller derby back in its rough-and-tumble early years — and the same goes for the...
Saturday 1/31 @ Epiphany
Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/31 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Jason Robert Bell's last exhibition in Chicago featured paintings of a yeti-like alter-ego. Since then, the Brooklyn-based artist's oeuvre has both...
Saturday 1/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Saturday 1/31 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Saturday 1/31 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
One of the most heart-wrenching documentaries to appear in decades, Dear Zachary began as a memorial to director Ken Kuenne's friend...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ Music Box Theatre
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 1/31 @ Auditorium Theatre
After Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined television sketch comedy, the troupe turned its attention to feature films. With financing help from...
Saturday 1/31 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Walsh Gallery
In large mixed-media paintings, Von Kommanivanh skewers the lurking evils and cultural convulsions of the 21st century like a hopped-up shish-kabob...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Various locations
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Although the primary descriptor of choreographer Margi Cole's dances is "soft," the pulled-taffy threads of movement that criss-cross dancers' space create...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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,...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 1/31 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
