Events on Monday, May 11
Monday 5/11 @ Loopy Yarns
Attention knitters: you've slayed scarves, mastered mittens, and given hell to hats. It's finally time to attempt the holy grail of...
Monday 5/11 @ The Empty Bottle
To say Joe Preston likes his music "heavy" is an understatement. A veteran of some of the most brutal, devastating bands...
Ongoing Events
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Monday 5/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Launched in storefronts and spare bedrooms, artist-run exhibition spaces have played a dynamic role in Chicago's creative life for years. Hyde...
Monday 5/11 @ Music Box Theatre
Ever the inventive perfectionist, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick chose a different genre for each of his productions, as if he wanted to...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Monday 5/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Monday 5/11 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such...
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Monday 5/11 @ Richard Gray Gallery
In his more extravagant moments, Marc Swanson hones a style that one might call "glam hunting lodge": think of the artist...
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Monday 5/11 @ The Renaissance Society
On April Fool's Day, an LTH Forum reader pranked the online foodie community with news on a Hot Doug's Celebrity Sausage...
Monday 5/11 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Monday 5/11 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 5/11 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
