Events on Saturday, January 9
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Linder Sterling's punk collages meet Paul Pope's Playboy groove in David van Alphen's exhibit at Rotofugi. Under glistening acrylic resin, big-collared,...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Antena
Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Before diving headlong into the abyss with Salò's brilliant but grueling extended metaphor of sexual-control-as-fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini had sunnier visions...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Bob le Flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 casino-caper flick, doesn't quite stare you down with the grim-faced irony of Le Samouri or...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Green Mill
Founded five years ago by veteran musician/composer Rob Mazurek for a performance at the new concert hall in Millennium Park, Exploding...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Lakeshore Theater
It's a time-honored tradition that Chicago's best young standup comedians leave our shores to move up the industry ladder in coastal...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the early '90s, the Norwegian black-metal scene gained international notoriety following a series of grisly acts committed by some of...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Temporarily departing from the UBS 12 x 12 series tradition of featuring work from one up-and-coming artist at a time, this...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The title character of Bernardo Bertolucci's politically-tinged comedy Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man is one Primo Spaggiari (Ugo Tognazzi), the rich...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Stage 773
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival began nine years ago when producer Brian Posen booked a six-week run at the Theatre Building...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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 1/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
