Events on Saturday, May 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 »
-
-
- 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
-
-
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFeatured
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFeatured
-
-
- 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
-
-
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree Featured
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
-
-
- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
-
-
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
