Events on Sunday, October 11
The White City: Burnham’s Dream
Sunday 10/11 @ Poetry Foundation
Illinois Institute of Technology
Carr Chapel
Mies Society members $40, non-members $50
Reservations: 312.547.5025 The White City: Burnham’s...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Sunday 10/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Sunday 10/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Sunday 10/11 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-taught, working-outside-the-mainstream artists are an often-misunderstood phenomenon, if one considers the myriad terms that emphasize their otherness: "outsider," "visionary," "naïve," "folk,"...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Sunday 10/11 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Sunday 10/11 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Sunday 10/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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 10/11 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Goodman Theatre
Though best remembered as a Marx Brothers movie romp, Animal Crackers first appeared as the outrageous comedy team's 1928 Broadway smash....
Sunday 10/11 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...
Sunday 10/11 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Sunday 10/11 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Sunday 10/11 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Sunday 10/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Jeremy Deller orchestrates public events and collaborative undertakings that bring different social issues into relief. His Battle of Orgreave, for...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Sunday 10/11 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sunday 10/11 @ Writers' Theatre
Tom Stoppard's inventive, razor-sharp absurdist play imagines Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as offstage existential anti-heroes with no understanding of what play they're...
Sunday 10/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Hu Yang's photograph Shanghai Living, a young Chinese man rests in his room, his surroundings hinting at concepts of individualism,...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 10/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Sunday 10/11 @ American Theater Company
An unsurprisingly brainy and gratifying bio-historical musical from the writers of Urinetown, Yeast Nation re-imagines prehistoric Earth's primordial soup as an...
Sunday 10/11 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Sunday 10/11 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 10/11 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Sunday 10/11 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Sunday 10/11 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Sunday 10/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....
Sunday 10/11 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
