Events on Saturday, October 3
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- Music: Electronic
- Fever Ray
- @ Metro
- Depending on your perspective, Fever Ray's atmospheric, electronic drone is the perfect soundtrack to either a spacey daydream or a chilling... View details »
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- 24 Hour Comic Book Day 2009
- @ Challengers Comics and Conversations
- It's fun to imagine what could be accomplished in a single day's time if pesky needs like sleeping, eating, and commuting... View details »
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- Film
- The Killers
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- Rather than a remake of director Robert Siodmak’s 1946 version, The... View details »
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- Freaks & Flash
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Freaks & Flash will explore the roots of modern Western tattooing with a selection of tattoo flash (the design drawings for... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Chicago Model City
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Mistakes Were Made
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Million Dollar Quartet
- @ Apollo Theater
- In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the... View details »
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- Molly Springfield: Translation
- @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
- Layered acts of translation, both linguistic and visual, drive Molly Springfield's latest project. First the artist photocopied every page of the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- @ Dance Center of Columbia College
- The intellectual exercises that birthed Merce Cunningham's dances might make one expect dry, mathematical choreographies, but structured though they are, his... View details »
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- Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
- @ Gallery 400
- Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hiroshi Watanabe
- @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
- In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Animal Crackers
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- CRUDE
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- America: All Better!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
- @ Victory Gardens Theater
- Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Luis Gispert
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The History Boys
- @ TimeLine Theatre
- The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan... View details »
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- Cy Twombly
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- @ 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... View details »
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- Iran Inside Out
- @ DePaul University Museum
- For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles... View details »
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- Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
- @ 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... View details »
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- Daria Martin: Minotaur
- @ 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... View details »
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- Heartland
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Studs Terkel's Not Working
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theater Oobleck: Faustus
- @ Chopin Theatre
- Oobleck remounts Mickle Maher's dazzlingly inventive play ten years after Maher himself took on the role of Faustus in the character's... View details »
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- Robyn O'Neil: On Sinking
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
- @ American Theater Company
- An evolutionary new rock musical from the Tony Award-winning creators of Urinetown The world’s first family, a colony of salt-eating... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Reversed Images
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jersey Boys
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Miami CIty Ballet - Superhuman Dancers!
- @ Auditorium Theatre
- Under the artistic direction of 1960s dance heartthrob Edward Villella, Miami City Ballet captivates audiences around the world with its thrilling... View details »
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- The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
- @ 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... View details »
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- Bertha Honoré Palmer
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion... View details »
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- Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- Robert Motherwell helped define 20th-century American art as a member of the New York School of painters (a group that also... View details »
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- Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
- @ Renaissance Society
- The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other... View details »
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- Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- In the late 1960s the British artist Henry Moore received an unusual gift—the skull of an African elephant. This exhibition highlights... View details »
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- My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
- @ Rotofugi
- Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and... View details »
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