Events on Sunday, May 16
Alice Millar Spring Festival Concert: Music of John Corigliano
Sunday 5/16 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
John Corigliano is celebrated for his compositions in over 100 chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral works. His style has been called...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/16 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
The name Cattywampus perfectly captures Seattle artist Rich Lehl’s surreal narrative paintings. They combine elements of the subconscious and the mysterious...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Sunday 5/16 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
This AIC exhibition charts the wild terrain of the Chicago post-war art scene — the adverse eccentrics, stylists, and self-taught artists...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Kristen Studard: Small Victories
Sunday 5/16 @ The Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance says: Versatile comedian Kristen Studard takes the spotlight with this sharp new solo show exploring the joys of life's...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Sunday 5/16 @ 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,...
Sunday 5/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottish company Visible Fictions makes theatre for young people that's engaging for adults, as well, especially noted for their complex performances...
Sunday 5/16 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 5/16 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
George Grosz, brutal caricaturist of the Weimar Republic and important member of Dada and New Objectivity in 1920s Germany, emigrated in...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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....
Sunday 5/16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Known primarily as a photographer and video artist, Shirin Neshat's powerful work has explored the realities of gender-segregation and social injustice...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the MCA's latest exhibit, an astutely chosen collection of works on paper depict exaggerated conflict, addressing various allegorical, emblematic, and...
Sunday 5/16 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Sunday 5/16 @ Prop Thtr
Jennifer Jajeh's critically acclaimed one-woman show comes to Chicago en route to Berkeley, after successful runs in New York (it debuted...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about Thierry Guetta, a graffiti stalker who chronicled Shepard Fairey and other key...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Steve Krakow's (aka Plastic Crimewave) exhibition at the MCA 12x12 features a selection of drawings, posters, and ephemera from Krakow's ongoing...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Writers' Theatre
For live theatre, it's about as close to a no-fail combination as you can get: critically acclaimed director David Cromer, known...
Sunday 5/16 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Beautiful Miasma: New Work by Jimmy Pickering
Sunday 5/16 @ Rotofugi
Stints with both Disney and Universal Studios mean you've probably seen Jimmy Pickering's art before, or maybe you've enjoyed his illustrations...
Sunday 5/16 @ Smart Museum of Art
Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story In early 1947, a fire ripped through the one-room attic of a tenement building on...
The Brother/Sister Plays Marathon Sundays
Sunday 5/16 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Brother/Sister Plays are presented in repertory with In the Red and Brown in rotation with The Brothers Size and Marcus;...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Sunday 5/16 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Sunday 5/16 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/16 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Sunday 5/16 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Sunday 5/16 @ Links Hall
Presented by Taurista Artists
Featuring choreographers Kish Jackson and Baron L. Clay, Jr. Kish...
