Events on Saturday, July 31
Saturday 7/31 @ Washington Square Park
In the '20s and '30s, Chicago's Washington Square Park was a hotbed of rhetoric, as poets, preachers, left-wing agitators, and crackpots...
Saturday 7/31 @ Facets Cinémathèque
This 1986 camp-trash flick is arguably more fun than many of the early '70s women-in-prison flicks to which it pays homage....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Concurrent with her first monograph of the same name, Paula McCartney's show Birdwatching features a provocative series of beautifully composed, lush...
Saturday 7/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of Here/Not There, the MCA's annual month of various multimedia performances (focusing this year on audience engagement), Meg Duguid...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Howard Finster, often described as one of the most important folk artists of the 20th century, was an "outsider" artist whose...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Various Chicago locations
It's the 100-year anniversary of Ox-Bow, the art school and artists' residency in Michigan; and to celebrate the centennial, there are...
Saturday 7/31 @ The Second City
Does the title of this sketch comedy show refer to the cast or the audience? The answer, of course, is both....
Saturday 7/31 @ 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....
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
The influential American conceptual artist John Baldessari — gadfly to contemporary art theory and master of image-text paintings — is represented...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Epic in scale and addressing issues that in other hands could have become sanctimonious — deforestation, advertising speak — Lora Fosberg's...
Saturday 7/31 @ Peregrine Program
Fresh off a stacked, Brion Gysin-nodding collaborative performance in Brooklyn that also included work by Scott Treleaven and Genesis P-Orridge, Terence...
Saturday 7/31 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
16th Street Theater, now in its third season, keeps proving its robustness and strong eye for talent and collaboration — it's...
Saturday 7/31 @ MCA Chicago
The first week of the MCA's returning Here/Not Here series opens with Club Nutz, a tiny mobile nightclub dubbed "the world's...
Saturday 7/31 @ Wicker Park
It's been 20 years since Wicker Park developers converted the former artists' hovel Manchester Lofts into real-estate-gold condos, ushering in a...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
A picture may not lie, but that doesn't mean it tells the full story. Proof, a group exhibition the Catherine Edelman...
Saturday 7/31 @ Angel Island
Storefront-theatre company Mary-Arrchie consistently delivers provocative, innovative work. Their latest, the Midwest premiere of a show originally concocted by Austin's Rule...
Saturday 7/31 @ Theater on the Lake
The Gift Theatre Company, whose current show, Suicide, Inc., is the surprise, critically acclaimed theatrical triumph of the summer, remounts another...
26th Annual Newberry Library Book Fair
Saturday 7/31 @ The Newberry Library
With countless books less than $2 a pop, the Newberry Library Book Fair remains one of the city's most popular events...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago Imagist Roger Brown is perhaps nearly as famous in Chicago now as a collector of art, particularly for the Roger...
Saturday 7/31 @ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Two of Chicago's central and most esteemed print institutions — also known for their community work and collaboration — present a...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Daniel Albrigo
Saturday 7/31 @ Western Exhibitions
The fact that Genesis P-Orridge had his teeth removed and replaced with gold casts — the act which inspired this exhibit...
Saturday 7/31 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
A Parallelogram, the final play in one of Steppenwolf's strongest seasons in recent years, pairs longtime Steppenwolf collaborator, actor, and playwright...
Saturday 7/31 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Based on cast and crew alone, Victory Gardens' A Guide for the Perplexed is perhaps the most anticipated show of the...
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Saturday 7/31 @ MCA Chicago
The Alexander Calder exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art tries to reposition the artist's legacy. The selections from Calder's work...
Saturday 7/31 @ Johalla Projects
In conjunction with the new, Yeti-published book of the same title, Art of Touring showcases a bevy of strong (non-musical) art...
Saturday 7/31 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Anyone with even a fleeting interest in photography should go see Henri Cartier-Bresson's retrospective at the Art Institute. Often heralded as...
Saturday 7/31 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Don't just live with less; make art with less. Jason Middlebrook, a pioneer of sustainability art, has focused in the past...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett
Saturday 7/31 @ threewalls
threewalls says: This July and August threewalls again hosts their summer residency, this year in conjunction with the Studio Chicago programming....
Saturday 7/31 @ Various Chicago locations
If it weren't for a little lady named Lisbeth Salander, and her creator Stieg Larsson, Americans might forever think of Sweden...
Land Without End and Other Works by Theo Leffmann
Saturday 7/31 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
The fiber art of Chicagoan Theo Leffmann (1911–1996) evokes the ancient and the exotic, echoing pre-Columbian and non-Western processes and forms...
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Saturday 7/31 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Saturday 7/31 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Saturday 7/31 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
New Sculptures, Paintings and Photography by Coarse
Saturday 7/31 @ Rotofugi
Works for the coarse world began in 2003, when German artists Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk started a distinct style of...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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,...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
Outdoor Sculpture Garden Tours
Saturday 7/31 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Enjoy a guided tour of the North Shore's finest outdoor sculpture garden, featuring monumental works by modern masters like Henry Moore,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Smart Museum of Art
Mid-Century: "Good Design" in Europe and America, 1850–1950 Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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,...
