Events on Monday, March 30

Phyllis Ross: <em>Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living</em>

Books: Reading

Phyllis Ross

Monday 3/30 @ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall

Gilbert Rohde, a lesser-known pioneer of American industrial design, was an influential precursor to modernist designers such as George Nelson and... 

The Von Bondies w/ Nico Vega

Music

The Von Bondies

Monday 3/30 @ Schubas

Shortly before the Von Bondies released 2004's Pawn Shoppe Heart, Jack White famously unleashed some fury on frontman Jason Stollsteimer's face... 

Ongoing Events

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

Coats for Cubs

Special Event: Benefit

Coats for Cubs

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Monday 3/30 @ Music Box Theatre

Complex mob-flick Gomorrah shows the realities and ironies that many conventional mafia films only romanticize. The drama, based on Robert Saviano's... 

<em>Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth</em>

Art

Becoming Edvard Munch

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Abandoned Demolition</em>: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Art

Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Monday 3/30 @ Various locations

The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... 

<em>PhotoDimensional</em>

Art

PhotoDimensional

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Loaded: Hunting Culture in America</em>

Art

Loaded: Hunting Culture in America

Monday 3/30 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago

Hunting is one of our country's semi-submerged traditions, stretching well beyond the red states. Gathering a varied group of insiders, outside... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Monday 3/30 @ Various locations

Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... 

Sigmar Polke: <em>Lens Paintings</em>

Art

Sigmar Polke

Monday 3/30 @ The Arts Club of Chicago

One of the giants of post-war painting, Sigmar Polke is an irreverant experimentalist — an artist of many moves whose work... 

<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Monday 3/30 @ Chicago History Museum

In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... 

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois: <em>House of the Rising Sun</em>

Art

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Monday 3/30 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

Paul Chan

Art

Paul Chan

Monday 3/30 @ The Renaissance Society

Artist Paul Chan may well be one of the wittiest and most astute political commentators of our time. The Renaissance Society... 

<em>Altogether Mutable: The Work of Mary Lou Zelazny</em>

Art

Mary Lou Zelazny

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Monday 3/30 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 3/30 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...