Events on Saturday, July 25
Saturday 7/25 @ The Newberry Library
In the '20s and '30s, Chicago's Washington Square Park was a hotbed of rhetoric, as poets, preachers, left-wing agitators, and crackpots...
Saturday 7/25 @ Subterranean
Following the success of his critically acclaimed debut, Ash Wednesday, folk troubadour Elvis Perkins has teamed up with four longtime friends...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/25 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Pop Sizzle Hum & Single Channels
Saturday 7/25 @ Tony Wight Gallery
A crop of painting-focused group shows has sprouted in the West Loop this summer. While you'll find some appealing works in...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
A Tribute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)
Saturday 7/25 @ Black Ensemble Theater
News of R&B superstar Maxwell's return after a long hiatus is a reminder of times past, and not just his previous...
Saturday 7/25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Famous for sensational thrillers like Point Break, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow stakes a new claim as a serious-minded action auteur with The...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in...
Saturday 7/25 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Saturday 7/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
MP3 II presents works by three Midwest-based photographers, their divergent approaches united by the transformative nature of their pieces. Curtis Mann...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Saturday 7/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Music Box Theatre
Visual catchphrases borrowed from Lynch, Bergman, and Billy Wilder get a thoroughly modern treatment in the Turkish noir Three Monkeys, a...
Saturday 7/25 @ Wicker Park
Whether Wicker Park is an edgy hipster haven or the "new Lincoln Park" is oft-disputed, but their summer festival touts the...
Saturday 7/25 @ The Newberry Library
For book lovers, nothing says heaven on earth more than a used-book sale. But the Newberry Library's Book Fair practically promises...
Saturday 7/25 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Saturday 7/25 @ Believe Inn
David Horvitz draws inspiration from "rabble-rousers, mischief makers, saboteurs," and other kinds of rascally figures, and his retooled version of '60s-style...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Saturday 7/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
Saturday 7/25 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
Saturday 7/25 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Saturday 7/25 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
