Events on Saturday, April 24
Saturday 4/24 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
Perhaps the theme for this year's 826CHI prom is a thank-you to Tom Hanks for co-producing last year's Where the Wild...
Hands-on Workshop: Build Your Own Treasure
Saturday 4/24 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Explore Intuit’s exhibition, The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, where you will find inspiration to carve and chisel your very own treasure....
Poetry Off the Shelf: Cornelius Eady
Saturday 4/24 @ Poetry Foundation
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street Many of Cornelius Eady’s poems allude...
Jacques Roumain: Passion for a Country
Saturday 4/24 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Jacques Roumain: Passion for a Country(Jacques Roumain, la passion d'un pays)
(Arnold Antonin, 2008, Haiti/Canada, video,
111 minutes)...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
No better excuse to clear the dust bunnies from a collection of old favorites than to put together a best-of show....
Saturday 4/24 @ Polish Museum of America
To counter popular beliefs about the recent retrograde nature of the Polish poster, artists Piotr Kunce and Monika Nowak curated the...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
Curated by the three of the co-organizers of the popular Version Fest, Printervention boasts 70 works from some of today's top...
Saturday 4/24 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Saturday 4/24 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Saturday 4/24 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Blaming Ed Paschke for Jeff Koons makes about as much sense as blaming Nietzsche for Mussolini. Regardless of how one responds...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Saturday 4/24 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the...
Saturday 4/24 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Saturday 4/24 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that...
Saturday 4/24 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Allison Schulnik's trademark exaggerated impasto approach to painting — as sculptural as it is pictorial — finds a macabre and haunting...
Saturday 4/24 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Saturday 4/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Saturday 4/24 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
Highly textured layers of impasto animate the dynamic subjects in James Olley's paintings, which tackle suburbia as their subject. Luckily, Olley...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Renowned writer and artist Romare Bearden's profuse output came from his work as an oil painter, cartoonist, art editor, costume designer...
Saturday 4/24 @ Western Exhibitions
Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series...
Saturday 4/24 @ Various Chicago locations
In improv, you look good when your partners look good. So if some of the 60-plus ensembles featured throughout the week-long...
Saturday 4/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
When a Modern Wing museumgoer accidentally stepped on Robert Smithson's floor-displayed Chalk-Mirror Displacement last month, jokes about the artist's pet themes...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Saturday 4/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Exploring issues of security in a time of terror, Sarah Pickering's MoCP survey show, Incident Control, draws upon her vivid, disquieting...
Saturday 4/24 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
Carl Hammer's featured artist at Art Chicago 2010, David Sharpe creates paintings on various scales that effectively represent the gallery's promotion...
Banners & Cranks: A Festival of Cantastoria
Saturday 4/24 @ Links Hall
Three weekends celebrating cantastoria, a performance form dating back to sixth-century India that involves a storyteller telling or singing a narrative...
Saturday 4/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Saturday 4/24 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Saturday 4/24 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
Saturday 4/24 @ Various Chicago locations
It's the 10th annual springtime arts festival from the folks at Lumpen/Co-Prosperity Sphere and their associates, and this one looks just...
Saturday 4/24 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Saturday 4/24 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/24 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
Teen Dream: New Works by Jon Knox (Hello, Brute)
Saturday 4/24 @ Rotofugi
Teen Dream
New Work by Jon Knox aka Hello, Brute April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010,...
Saturday 4/24 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf's Visiting Company Initiative is pleased to present Garage Rep, three productions from some of Chicago's most innovative theatre companies, presented...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Saturday 4/24 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Saturday 4/24 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit kicks off its 2010 season with The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. A Savannah barber, Davis spent his free time carving...
Garden of Light: New Works by APAK
Saturday 4/24 @ Rotofugi
Garden of Light
New Work by APAK April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7-10PM...
