Events on Monday, May 25

Girls Rock! Chicago presents the Ladies Rock Showcase

Special Event: Benefit

Ladies Rock Showcase

Monday 5/25 @ Schubas

Puberty sucks. Combined with patriarchal tradition and high school's social cruelty, it fosters a stifling environment for a girl's creative expression.... 

Minsk w/ Across Tundras and Electric Desert

Music: Experimental

Minsk

Monday 5/25 @ The Empty Bottle

Between Kuma's, Metal Shaker, and spotlight-grabbers like Nachtmystium, Pelican, and now Minsk, Chicago seems to be in the midst of a... 

Ongoing Events

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Double Exposure

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Special Event

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Human Condition</em> (1959-61)

Film

The Human Condition

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Monday 5/25 @ Chicago History Museum

In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000&ndash;2007</em>

Art

Cy Twombly

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Artists Run Chicago</em>

Art

Artists Run Chicago

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>Several Silences</em>

Art

Several Silences

Monday 5/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Big World: Recent Art from China</em>

Art

The Big World: Recent Art from China

Monday 5/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 5/25 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Special Event

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Monday 5/25 @ Chicago History Museum

Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world.  She was a champion...