Events on Saturday, April 25
North Lake Shore Earth Day Celebration
Saturday 4/25 @ Loyola University, Quinlan Life Sciences Building
Hop on a bicycle, ride the CTA, or use your own two feet to get to North Lake Shore today for...
Saturday 4/25 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
This year's 826CHI Prom, Robot Armageddon, lends a new meaning to rigid prom dancing — it combines an old-school prom atmosphere...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/25 @ Devening Projects + Editions
With framed works leaning against the wall and a sculpture of a lectern overturned on the floor, Christopher Michlig's exhibition MAN...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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...
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Saturday 4/25 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In adjacent exhibitions, Stephen Daiter Gallery reunites Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, two master photographers who became friends in the early...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Saturday 4/25 @ Salvage One
Nestled inside the labyrinthine West Loop antiques-and-architecture warehouse that is Salvage One, Of This Land: The Artist's Touch is a unique...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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...
Saturday 4/25 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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...
Saturday 4/25 @ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Music Box Theatre
Kiyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Saturday 4/25 @ Mess Hall
Chicago's history is ripe with singular moments, but one of the more amazing — the rise of "hobohemia," a revolutionary hobo...
Saturday 4/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams is a lyrical and joyful portrait of five female artists reflecting on their shared home of...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Saturday 4/25 @ DePaul Art Museum
Pairing a collection of small 19th-century photographs with larger works by contemporary artists, DePaul University's engaging group exhibition Double Exposure takes...
Saturday 4/25 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
In her previous paintings, Angelina Gualdoni depicted modern-day ruins with a mix of naturalistic detail and hazy atmospherics. Her latest exhibition,...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Saturday 4/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Saturday 4/25 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
Any stage production whose advertising tagline is "The Greatest Musical. Ever." doesn't exactly suffer from a lack of confidence. Still, as...
Saturday 4/25 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 4/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Amid the economic gloom, universities are reporting a sharp enrollment surge in the "practical" majors (including finance and health) and a...
Saturday 4/25 @ Smart Museum of Art
A remarkable artist with a sensibility all his own, H.C. Westermann pursued themes of love, death, and catastrophe in his works...
Saturday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Epiphany
Bad dreams are relative. Watching Derek Jarman's hourlong film experiment In the Shadow Of the Sun — with its color-shifting, home...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
