Events on Wednesday, March 4
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
The city's 172nd birthday celebration at the Chicago History Museum is sure to be the youngest crowd you'll ever find at...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Block Cinema
Veteran rockumentary-maker Julien Temple began gathering footage of Joe Strummer as early as 1976, when the self-proclaimed "mouthy little git" had...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Phaiz
Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Cuban political artist and performer Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons' newest exhibition seeks to uncover hidden truths and secret knowledge with large-scale Polaroid...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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,...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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,...
Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Various locations
This five-day celebration of movies about music — including concert films, documentaries, music videos, and shorts — is the brainchild of...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ The Hideout
Struck down again by the annual arctic blast, we all just want a steaming bowl of something to make us happy....
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Various locations
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Wednesday 3/ 4 @ 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...
