Events on Saturday, September 11
Saturday 9/11 @ Lincoln Hall
Vegetarians, vegans, the mildly squeamish, and recent readers of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals need read no further. Following in the...
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Saturday 9/11 @ MCA Chicago
The International Contemporary Ensemble make "classical" music feel current, if not downright cool. ICE is a veritable musical merry-go-round of young,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/11 @ Western Exhibitions
Two concurrent solo shows at Western Exhibitions, Joey Fauerso's Act Natural and new work by sculptor Ben Stone, engage in conversation...
Saturday 9/11 @ Johalla Projects
Deemed one of Chicago's 2010 Breakout Artists by NewCity Magazine, Montgomery Perry Smith takes over the entirety of Johalla Projects with...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Anyone who thinks that Shakespeare's plays are an easy drama go-to ought to watch for the stunt-tastic, cultural mash-up bonanza that...
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Millennium Park
Yeah, we're pretty festival'ed out at this point, too; but this late addition is impossible to resist. The debut Chicago...
Saturday 9/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Media artist, curator, and now gallerist Ben Russell makes short films, which he calls "animated photography," performance, and installations that examine...
Saturday 9/11 @ EBERSMOORE
BC MacEachran's second solo exhibition at ebersmoore, The Big Gray Con, brings to mind a game of optical illusions. The longer...
Saturday 9/11 @ Division St between Damen Ave and Paulina St
Wicker Park's eighth-annual DIY spectacle of the highest order, the Renegade Craft Fair features hundreds of independent national and international crafty...
Saturday 9/11 @ DCA Theater
Emily Dendinger's play about the writing of Frankenstein brings to life the infamous group of Romantics living together in the Alps...
Arturo Herrera and David Schutter
Saturday 9/11 @ Tony Wight Gallery
The new show of paintings and drawings by Arturo Herrera and David Schutter (along with a related book of the artists'...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Gallery 400
San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco's show at UIC's Gallery 400 is an insightful exploration of the current dual zeitgeists in contemporary...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Is there a Chicago art style? It's a question that the Hyde Park Art Center has sought to answer since Don...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
The relationship between image and texts has been a source of fascination for visual artists as long as both have existed,...
Saturday 9/11 @ TimeLine Theatre
This critically acclaimed play (its Broadway and West End runs garnered dozens of awards from Drama Desks to Tonys) by Peter...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Western Exhibitions
Joey Fauerso shows two videos and figurative watercolors on paper that combine landscapes and figures, exploring grey areas between fantasy and...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Chicago Urban Art Society
Chicago artist Doug Fogelson has been experimenting with the mediums of soil and rammed earth — an ancient, sustainable wall-building method...
Saturday 9/11 @ Richardson Adventure Farm
The Richardson Adventure is the largest, most intricate corn maze in the world. It's actually five separate mazes winding through 33...
Saturday 9/11 @ Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center
Gahlberg Gallery says: This installation draws upon the ecological effects of vibration and the history of sonic warfare. At root is...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum, and Frank Jones
Saturday 9/11 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
Carl Hammer Gallery's Out of Struggle Came Power exhibit features three artists: Joseph Yoakum, Bill Traylor, and Frank Jones. While some...
Saturday 9/11 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Romanian playwright Andras Visky is famous for theatre works about freedom and imprisonment — a preoccupation he has termed "barrack dramaturgy."...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Carrie Schneider: Photography & Video
Saturday 9/11 @ Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art
Chicago and Brooklyn-based artist Carrie Schneider has built a quietly wondrous body of work, and her latest show continues her interest...
Forget Me NOT: Self-Taught Portraits
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Darkness Revisited: A Collection of Private Pleasures
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 9/11 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton
Saturday 9/11 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Saturday 9/11 @ 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,...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 9/11 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
