Events on Saturday, January 2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
If you haven't seen this unconditional comedy classic, what's stopping you? Did you have all of your appendages sliced off? Were...
Ongoing Events
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Saturday 1/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-taught, working-outside-the-mainstream artists are an often-misunderstood phenomenon, if one considers the myriad terms that emphasize their otherness: "outsider," "visionary," "naïve," "folk,"...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
In Aberration #8, one of Adam Ekberg's signature images, concentric circles of light flood the frame, suggesting a metaphysical order while...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
Holiday is Jacques Tati's superfine intro to Monsieur Hulot, the French director's lovable alias and a magnet for pratfalls and faux...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Various locations
Chicago can be tough on a new year's resolution: there's a tacqueria (or an Old Style sign) on every corner, the...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Gallery 400
Mathew Paul Jinks' film The Queen's Tailor, which ran earlier this year at Green Lantern Gallery, used the classic Ealing farce...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Various Chicago theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Linda Warren Gallery
The art of Juan Angel Chavez is like a collage of a forgotten side of Chicago, bringing fragments of the streets...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
Romanian cinema's breakout moment began almost five years ago, but if Corneliu Porumboiu's new film, Police, Adjective, is any indication, that...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Rotofugi
Every now and then you just gotta let go. This month we did just that and turned the Rotofugi Gallery reigns...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 1/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Saturday 1/ 2 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 1/ 2 @ 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...
