Events on Thursday, December 3
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Hideout
One might argue that the contemporary resurgence of craft is about a feminist reclamation of "women's work" by both genders, a...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The 80-minute, nine-artist New Nippon is an eclectic and spirited jaunt through contemporary Japanese film and video art. Tomonari Nishikawa's silent,...
Black as Ink: Three Tattoo Films
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An evening of three short films related to tattoo history and culture: Stoney Knows How (1981), by Alan Govenar and Bruce...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Shrine
Critically-acclaimed LA-based Colombian, Palenke Soultribe, have taken electronic music to new heights by deconstructing Afro-Colombian rhythms and blending them with underground beats and exploratory...
Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons; Oidipous Tyrannos: Oedipus the King
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Poetry Foundation
National Hellenic Museum
801 West Adams Street, 4th Floor
Free admission Reginald Gibbons retells the story of Oedipus, reading...
Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra: A Taste of Russia
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Judith Manger, cello Nikolai Miaskovsky, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Vassili Kallinikov, Symphony No. 1...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Carnival Nocturne is a colorful and engaging, if uneven, production about a cursed traveling circus, complete with fortune tellers and Siamese...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Stone's latest creation, Earth Days, brings audiences back to the roots of the green movement. Stone unearths...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Goodman Theatre
You could be forgiven for wondering whether Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol specifically for the Goodman Theatre stage: their annual...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Pavilion
Those seeking refuge from the chaos reigning at big-box stores this Black Friday can still get their retail fix at the...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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,...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Thursday 12/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Winter Series
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
It may be nearing the quarter-century mark in age, but Ohad Naharin's Tabula Rasa is still the must-see performance in Hubbard...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Chopin Theatre
Not for the faint of heart, Aunt Dan and Lemon ruthlessly examines the worst of human nature and comes to the...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
The performances shine in this incredible, consistently hysterical production from Court Theatre. Two actors at the top of their game —...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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,"...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play
Thursday 12/ 3 @ American Theater Company
A Chicago Holiday Tradition
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
