Events on Saturday, June 12
Saturday 6/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos...
Saturday 6/12 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Twenty years ago, Oakland-based alt-cartoonist Daniel Clowes created Ghost World and its cynical teen protagonist Enid Coleslaw. (FYI: Enid Coleslaw is...
Saturday 6/12 @ Vic Theatre
The Vic says: In celebration of 20 years of Bloodletting.
Poetry at Printers Row: Lorraine Schechter
Saturday 6/12 @ Poetry Foundation
Polk and Clark Streets
Arts & Poetry Stage
Free
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/12 @ the side project theatre
Beau O'Reilly and Curious Theater Branch present the third incarnation of this short play series, combining three story-based theatrical adaptations each...
Saturday 6/12 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute's mashup of art and music through a wide grouping of photo and video is an untidy combination —...
Saturday 6/12 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Images from Venice, China, Cairo, and elsewhere, spanning the last 30 years of Michael Kenna's work, correspond to a retrospective of...
Saturday 6/12 @ Western Exhibitions
John Parot's multimedia works on paper are a self-described "poetic investigation into urban gay living," where the artist mainly focuses on...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre at Loyola University
Next Theatre's collaboration with the Loyola theater school is a profound success in imaginative technical theater. The plot, based on the...
Saturday 6/12 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Chopin Theatre
The tenth-annual Sketchbook mixed-media festival, held at the Chopin Theatre for two weeks in June, promises to be as strong a...
Saturday 6/12 @ Harold Washington Library
A Lollapalooza for the literary set, the annual Printers Row Lit Fest gathers scores of A-list headliners, some of our finest...
Saturday 6/12 @ Chicago Urban Art Society
In Sweet Tea, Ray Noland reminds us once again that overtly political art can still be fresh and vigorous, not to...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Saturday 6/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/12 @ Milwaukee Ave at Armitage St & Western Ave
It seems like there's a neighborhood music festival flooding the streets every weekend during the early summer; but thankfully that didn't...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Western Exhibitions
Rachel Niffenegger's sculptures and paintings of disintegrated human heads create a kind of surrealist, horror-movie portrait gallery. Assembled busts reference classical...
Saturday 6/12 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
A spectacular lineup, ranging from emerging artists to Chicago institutions, graces this summer group exhibition at Thomas Robertello Gallery, where the...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen
Saturday 6/12 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
In many ways a beau ideal figure of "outsider art," Charles Steffen studied art at IIT before suffering a mental breakdown...
Saturday 6/12 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Don't just live with less; make art with less. Jason Middlebrook, a pioneer of sustainability art, has focused in the past...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
With the possible exception of Stephen Colbert, no one epitomizes a certain snarky, knowing comedy better than David Sedaris. Like Colbert...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 6/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Caleb J. Lyons' work is obsessed with its own derivative nature, but the process by which that preoccupation is expressed makes...
Saturday 6/12 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit says: This retrospective features 30 pieces of Charles Steffen's work, covering a variety of imagery he knew in his limited...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
In between, You and I, there is space all around us is the appropriate title of Junko Yamamoto's show at EC...
Saturday 6/12 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Loosely based on true events, Holy Rollers follows a young Hasidic man on his journey from budding rabbi to professional ecstasy...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Saturday 6/12 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Saturday 6/12 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Auditorium Theatre
FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery. Featuring mind-blowing visual effects...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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,...
