Events on Saturday, May 16
Saturday 5/16 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
If you're curious about the proposed venue design for the 2016 Olympics or just looking for a guide around a place...
Saturday 5/16 @ Metro
Rambunctious quirk-poppers the Vaselines packed a lot of punch into four years of band life. The once little-known Scottish quartet gained...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/16 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
Saturday 5/16 @ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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,...
Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection
Saturday 5/16 @ 65GRAND
Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar...
Saturday 5/16 @ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
Saturday 5/16 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Although the golden age of street photography may have passed, the genre didn't die with the likes of Garry Winogrand or...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ The Goodman Theatre
Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,...
Saturday 5/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Perhaps the greatest war epic ever put to film, Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition is a nine-hour rumination on the futility...
Saturday 5/16 @ Rowley Kennerk Gallery
Gaylen Gerber's strategy is to play humble host and deft interlocutor at the same time. He invites other artists to include...
Saturday 5/16 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ Lakeshore Theater
The sheer variety of American stand-up comedy burnishes its greatness. You've got your pioneering legends (Pryor, Newhart, Bruce), big-name headliners (Seinfeld,...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ The Annoyance Theatre
The town of Niagara, near the famous falls, was apparently daredevil central in the 19th century. Annoyance Theatre's giddily ridiculous and...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
