Events on Monday, December 7
Ongoing Events
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Don't be fooled by Jackie Hoffman's diminutive stature; her lacerating brand of comedy could melt the paint off a wall. Since...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ The Goodman Theatre
You could be forgiven for wondering whether Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol specifically for the Goodman Theatre stage: their annual...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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 —...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ 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,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 12/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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
Monday 12/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Monday 12/ 7 @ 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 12/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
