Events on Tuesday, December 15
Tuesday 12/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Though it lacks the high stylization of his subsequent films, Wes Anderson's directorial debut has the same languid pace, incessant quirk,...
The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Second City e.t.c.
Letters to Santa, the Second City's annual benefit to provide holiday gifts for needy kids, is Lollapalooza in a can: big-name...
Timbuck 2uesday Presents DITC + BOOGIE BLIND + GREYBOY (FREE!)
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Shrine
Timbuck 2uesday Presents the legendary DITC (Diggin In the Crates)! Plus DJ Boogie Blind AND Greyboy! THIS NIGHT WILL BE OFF...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Gallery 400
Mathew Paul Jinks' film The Queen's Tailor, which ran earlier this year at Green Lantern Gallery, used the classic Ealing farce...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Tuesday 12/15 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 12/15 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Tuesday 12/15 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Linda Warren Gallery
The art of Juan Angel Chavez is like a collage of a forgotten side of Chicago, bringing fragments of the streets...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,...
The Hideout Annual Holiday Sale
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Hideout
The Hideout's charms are many: off-the-beaten-path, yet centrally located; super-friendly staff, cozy lodge vibe, consistent booking of killer bands. But this...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,"...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Goodman Theatre
You could be forgiven for wondering whether Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol specifically for the Goodman Theatre stage: their annual...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Two years ago Carrie Schneider conjured Velázquez among the red vinyl booths of the Rainbo Club, recreating his famed Las Meninas...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Rotofugi
Every now and then you just gotta let go. This month we did just that and turned the Rotofugi Gallery reigns...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Tuesday 12/15 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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....
