OCTOBER
Bob Guccione’s bloated, absurd movie Caligula features over-the-top performances by Malcolm McDowell (as the incestuous, warped emperor), Helen Mirren, and Peter O’Toole interpolated with X-rated scenes. It’s been out of circulation since 1987, when all prints of it were destroyed; now Penthouse has made a new, uncut print of the two-and-a-half-hour film. The first theater in the country to get it is the Village Theatre, 1548 N. Clark, which is showing it at midnight Fridays and Saturdays through the end of January. Admission is $5; call 642-2403.
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In conjunction with its three-day symposium Science & Art: Creativity, Motivation, and the Joy of Learning, the Chicago Academy of Sciences is offering a program this afternoon that will see a panel of musicians, authors, entertainers, and teachers talk about learning and creativity. Your host is Aaron Freeman, star of stage, TV, and radio; he’ll be talking with University of Chicago psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 16-year-old violinist Jennifer Koh, and others. It’s at the Ambassador West, 1300 N. State, from 2 to 4 and costs $18 at the door, $15 in advance, $12 for academy members. Call 549-0606, ext. 3077.
The Art Institute of Chicago oversees a permanent collection of nearly a quarter of a million artworks; 350 of the most notable–including some rarely seen because of their fragility–make up a new retrospective exhibit, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993. The show represents every department of the museum, from paintings to textiles, and includes special salutes to the museum’s core collection and notable donors. It runs through January 9. The museum’s open 10:30 to 4:30 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; 10:30 to 8 Tuesday; 10 to 5 Saturday; and noon to 5 Sunday. It’s at Adams and Michigan. The suggested donation is $6.50, $3.25 for students, seniors, and kids; Tuesdays are free. Call 443-3600.
To install Frank Stella’s nine-ton abstract metal sculpture (called The Town-Ho’s Story, after a chapter of Moby Dick) in the lobby of the Metcalfe federal building (77 W. Jackson), movers spent three days removing a lobby window, dismantling the sculpture, craning the pieces into the building, and rebuilding it. Today Lynn DaCosse, fine-arts officer for the U.S. General Services Administration in Chicago, will give a 45-minute slide lecture on the mighty logistics involved. It’s at 12:15 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s lecture hall, just off the lobby of the Railway Exchange Building, 224 S. Michigan. Admission is $2, free for members; bag lunches are welcome. Call 922-3432. The Metcalfe federal building is open 8 to 4:30 weekdays.
