Events on Saturday, May 23

<em>RR</em> (2007)
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Film: Shorts
RR
@ Doc Films
Canny critics have long noted the overlapping late-19th-century technologies of railroads and motion pictures, but James Benning's RR — which has...  View details »
Facets Night School: <em>The Entity</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Film
The Entity
@ Facets Cinémathèque
One of the more intriguing films spawned by the post-Exorcist terror-in-the-home boom, and perhaps the deepest buried of all Facets' Night...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
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Harry Potter: The Exhibition
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
More Flavor: City Gem
Prairie Avenue House Museums
@ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Big World: Recent Art from China</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
The Big World: Recent Art from China
@ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Zoe Crosher: <em>Selections from the Analog Collection, from</em><em> the Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection
@ 65GRAND
Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lalla Essaydi
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art: Photography
Lalla Essaydi
@ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Human Condition</em> (1959-61)
Month_05 Sunday Day_24
Film
The Human Condition
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Million Dollar Quartet</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Theatre
Million Dollar Quartet
@ Apollo Theater
In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000&ndash;2007</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Cy Twombly
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Tom Stoppard's <em>Rock 'n' Roll</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
@ The Goodman Theatre
Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
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Chic Chicago
@ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Of This Land: The Artist's Touch</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Several Silences</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Several Silences
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Gaylen Gerber
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Gaylen Gerber
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H.C. Westermann Study Collection</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
H.C. Westermann
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_24
Art: Architecture/Design
Buckminster Fuller
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Daredevilry</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Comedy
Daredevilry
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Clare E. Rojas: <em>Believe Me</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Clare Rojas
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Rod Blagojevich Superstar!</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Comedy
Rod Blagojevich Superstar!
@ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Artists Run Chicago</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Artists Run Chicago
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Windy City Sound Clash Festival
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Music: Festival
Windy City Sound Clash Festival
@ Reggies Rock Club
The summer music-festival season kicks off with a fist-pumping bang with annual punk-rock fest Windy City Sound Clash. The three-day blowout's...  View details »
Ongoing
Graceland Cemetery
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
More Flavor: City Gem
Graceland Cemetery
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art: Photography
Double Exposure
@ DePaul University Museum
Pairing a collection of small 19th-century photographs with larger works by contemporary artists, DePaul University's engaging group exhibition Double Exposure takes...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jesse McLean: <em>Invisible Tracks</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
@ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...  View details »
Ongoing
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Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Month_05 Sunday Day_24
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Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
Geoffrey Todd Smith
@ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>America: All Better!</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Comedy
America: All Better!
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steppenwolf presents Art
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jed Fielding: <em>30 Years on the Street</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art: Photography
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
Art
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
Month_05 Saturday Day_23
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
@ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world.  She was a champion...  View details »
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