Events on Saturday, March 14
Saturday 3/14 @ Vic Theatre
Will Oldham's records transport you to a chilly, star-filled night around a campfire in Montana. Although his songs are informed by...
Saturday 3/14 @ The Hideout
New Zealand-bred post-punkers Cut Off Your Hands are a no-brainer for radio warriors and obscurists alike. Peddling a rare mode of...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/14 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Saturday 3/14 @ Walsh Gallery
In large mixed-media paintings, Von Kommanivanh skewers the lurking evils and cultural convulsions of the 21st century like a hopped-up shish-kabob...
Saturday 3/14 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 3/14 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Evening-length triptych Saudade — from New York-based choreographer David Roussève — is not minimalist. The title, Portuguese for "the love of...
Saturday 3/14 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Saturday 3/14 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Saturday 3/14 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Saturday 3/14 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Saturday 3/14 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
If your best friend spent a fortune on an all-white painting you hated, could you bite your tongue and praise it,...
Saturday 3/14 @ Roots & Culture
(Broadcast) television is dead. Long live (digital) television. Curator Eric Fleischauer has assembled The End of Analog, an exhibition at Roots...
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Saturday 3/14 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In adjacent exhibitions, Stephen Daiter Gallery reunites Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, two master photographers who became friends in the early...
Saturday 3/14 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming...
Saturday 3/14 @ 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...
Saturday 3/14 @ The Art Center in Highland Park
Curated by Olga Stefan, former Executive Director of the Chicago Artists' Coalition, this group exhibition focuses on the fleeting nature of...
Saturday 3/14 @ Phaiz
Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti...
Saturday 3/14 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Saturday 3/14 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Saturday 3/14 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Saturday 3/14 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Saturday 3/14 @ Storefront Theater
Interweaving the diverse voices of more than 40 characters, this stage production of playwright Robin Soans's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook offers an...
Saturday 3/14 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Saturday 3/14 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 3/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still...
Saturday 3/14 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely...
Saturday 3/14 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
In a time of creeping horrors like war, recession, terrorism and Bernie Madoff, there's perverse satisfaction to be gleaned from a...
Saturday 3/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Buckminster Fuller was a man of vision and contradiction. The twentieth-century architect and inventor was well ahead of his time, yet...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 3/14 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 3/14 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
