Events on Monday, November 9
Site Unseen 2009: (dis)abling conditions
Monday 11/ 9 @ Chicago Cultural Center
The sixth annual edition of Site Unseen offers a collection of one-night-only, site-specific performances, installations, and video pieces at the Cultural...
Monday 11/ 9 @ Max Palevsky Cinema
Michael Mann demonstrates in his 1999 drama, The Insider, that the tangled fibers of lies, ethics, corruption, and integrity are not...
Monday 11/ 9 @ Auditorium Theatre
Just a couple of months after suffering a minor stroke, venerable radio host and author Garrison Keillor is back on the...
Ongoing Events
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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,"...
Monday 11/ 9 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled...
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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,...
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Monday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Monday 11/ 9 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Monday 11/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Monday 11/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 11/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Monday 11/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
