Events on Sunday, January 3
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Renaissance Society
opening: Anna Shteynshleyger
January 3, 2010, 4pm to 7 pm There will be a talk with the artist from 5:00...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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,"...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Sunday 1/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Renaissance Society
Moscow-born, Yale-trained artist Anna Shteynshleyger's austere images belie a host of influences. Her large, arresting photographs of the Siberian countryside are...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ The Hideout
Back in the olden days (read: 1990s), there was a strange abundance of face-melting, Midwestern post-rock bands with martial-arts-inspired monikers (Sweep...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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,...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Rotofugi
Every now and then you just gotta let go. This month we did just that and turned the Rotofugi Gallery reigns...
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Sunday 1/ 3 @ 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....
Sunday 1/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
