Events on Saturday, November 13
Saturday 11/13 @ Lincoln Hall
Cameron Mesirow is the brainchild behind the cool, ethereal soundscapes of Glasser. On her debut album, Ring, the Los Angeles native...
Saturday 11/13 @ Cubby Bear
With the "geek" and "cool" circles on our cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like...
An Evening of Jazz: Patricia Barber and Kenny Werner
Saturday 11/13 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Two of the most creative and talented performers in jazz, Patricia Barber and Kenny Werner, share the stage for an unforgettable...
Art and Oppression: Leon Golub and Shirin Neshat
Saturday 11/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Eduardo Cadava, professor of English at Princeton University, and Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies at Duke University,...
Ongoing Events
Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?
Saturday 11/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Chicago native Leon Golub died in 2004 after devoting a lifetime to painting about events in the real world that inevitably...
Saturday 11/13 @ Broadway Playhouse
Traces, a French-Canadian acrobatic spectacular now opening its national tour in Chicago, scrupulously avoids using the words "Cirque" and "Soleil" in...
Saturday 11/13 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Director Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) has a way with erotic themes, and he proves it once again with this sumptuous...
Saturday 11/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Multimedia artist Derek Chan is known for the sublimity of his painstaking, disciplined work, whether in minutely detailed drawings or durational...
Saturday 11/13 @ Pop-Up Art Loop
As part of the Chicago Loop Alliance's initiative to fill vacant downtown storefronts with pop-up art displays, the Chicago Urban Art...
Saturday 11/13 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit's new Peter Anton show provides a productive and evocative foil for the museum's overlapping show of drawings by Charles Steffen,...
Saturday 11/13 @ Music Box Theatre
Inside Job is probably one of the best bank-heist films of our time, but unfortunately for us, it's a documentary; we're...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Saturday 11/13 @ The Second City e.t.c.
The electric defibrillator paddles that briefly appear onstage during the Second City e.t.c.'s new sketch revue are an apt metaphor for...
Saturday 11/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
The Richard Hawkins exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago exposes a multiplicity of thoughts, ideas, and desires within the artist's...
Saturday 11/13 @ Tom Robinson Gallery
Livewire's third annual short-play festival, this year performed in promenade at a Wicker Park art gallery, is almost shockingly affecting. Six...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Saturday 11/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
AIC says: The world is an exciting and frightening place for a young child. It's fun to make a new friend,...
Redmoon Theater: 2010 Winter Pageant
Saturday 11/13 @ Redmoon Central
A tradition for more than 15 years, Redmoon Theater's annual Winter Pageant celebrates the four seasons, represented as an aging pop...
Saturday 11/13 @ Museum of Science and Industry
If Katy Perry's recent Sesame Street stint has you wondering about the minds behind the iconic children's program, this 130-plus piece...
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Saturday 11/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art is best known for their small but stunning collection of European and American...
Saturday 11/13 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Andrew Rafacz presents a new film and sculpture installation by Chicago artist and cinema professor Jennifer Reeder, whose early film work...
Saturday 11/13 @ Graham Foundation
The Graham Foundation's Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown exhibit exposes a groundbreaking...
Saturday 11/13 @ Chopin Theatre
Classic falls in love with modern when House Theatre of Chicago playwrights Phillip C. Klapperich and Jake Minton bring their fantastical,...
Saturday 11/13 @ MCA Chicago
The compelling Luc Tuymans exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art reveals an artist struggling with the meaning of representation and...
Saturday 11/13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
From Allen Ginsberg to Aron Ralston, it's been quite a year for James Franco. In Danny Boyle's adrenaline-filled follow-up to Slumdog...
Saturday 11/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Urban China is an exhibition based on the magazine that's been recording the outrageously rapid pace of urbanization in China, including...
Saturday 11/13 @ EBERSMOORE
Local sculptor Michael Rea's solo show at ebersmoore highlights the artist's trademark unfinished wood sculptures of everyday and dreamlike fictional objects....
Forget Me NOT: Self-Taught Portraits
Saturday 11/13 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Almost 50 artists are included in this ambitious group show, which spans a long history of portraits by self-taught artists —...
Saturday 11/13 @ Antena
Transformation Opera is a sound and video project by Amelia Winger-Bearskin in which music generated from four different video works merge...
Saturday 11/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Works on paper are often the most powerful exemplars of artists' work — from studies for paintings to dynamic sketches —...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Saturday 11/13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Lisbeth Salander is the antisocial genius computer-hacker of Swedish thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment in the...
Jordan Eagles and Dylan Vitone
Saturday 11/13 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood,...
Saturday 11/13 @ Western Exhibitions
Collaborators and partners Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger explore intimacy across a range of artistic media from installation, printmaking, and collage...
Devilish Children and the Civilizing Process
Saturday 11/13 @ Dream Theatre
Pilsen's Dream Theatre company, whose Orestes trilogy last spring and summer was rightly noted by critics for its creative edginess, is...
Saturday 11/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Aside from being excellent stand-alone shorts, the four films in Chicago-Scope: The Films of Tom Palazzolo, 1967 – 1976 provide a...
Saturday 11/13 @ Lookingglass Theatre
In her adaptation of Peter Pan for Lookingglass Theatre, director Amanda Denhert brings the classic story to a boil. The actors...
Saturday 11/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
MoCP director Rod Slemmons, who has long been involved with the art world in Mexico, has organized a nuanced, wide-ranging show...
Saturday 11/13 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 11/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For the past month, artist Jeff Zimmermann has been stationed in a first-floor gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center, creating a...
Saturday 11/13 @ Renaissance Society
Rebecca Warren, winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, is most recognizable for the messages about gender, nature, and the slipperiness of...
Saturday 11/13 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
The Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute feature Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and His Spheres of Influence,...
Saturday 11/13 @ The Goodman Theatre
Continuing its tradition of presenting both familiar classics and new work, the Goodman Theatre opened its new season with Voltaire's Candide and...
Saturday 11/13 @ 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,...
Steve Reinke: The Tiny Ventriloquist
Saturday 11/13 @ Gallery 400
With endearing wit, Chicago-based, Canadian-born Steve Reinke makes work in a mock confessional mode about sex, death, and whatever comes between...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 11/13 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Saturday 11/13 @ Links Hall
Calisthenics for Schrapnel is a two-weekend festival offering audiences and performers the opportunity to "work it out" over two of the...
Saturday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has played a pivotal role in discourse about identity and gender in her native country and the Islamic...
Saturday 11/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Museum docents lead tours of the Block Museum's fall exhibitions--Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion? and Shirin Neshat: Rapture.
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Saturday 11/13 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Saturday 11/13 @ Chicago History Museum
A new costume exhibition shows the colorful history of wedding attire! I Do! presents 45 dresses, plus accessories, corsets, men's attire,...
Darkness Revisited: A Collection of Private Pleasures
Saturday 11/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
Organized by University of Chicago students, this intimate exhibition of prints from the Smart Museum's collection revisits the themes of The...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 11/13 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
