Weekly Events Calendar: 12.13.06

Art & Design Events...

December with Apartment Therapy...
- First Annual Holiday Gift Bag giveaways
- Best of Chicago 2006 nominations and voting underway
- AT: The Nursery candidates posted on AT: NY
Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
- Only a few weeks left to see more than 400 pieces of furniture and art from the Biedermeier period (1815-1830).
- Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr., Milwaukee, WI
- Closes Jan. 1, 2007
Two-Mile Radius
- Exhibition featuring photographs by Hagen Dost with poetry by Cherie Caswell Dost, questioning the nature of "home."
- Rough Space Gallery, DANK-Haus, 4740 N. Western Ave.
- Through Dec. 30

FluffyBadBad toy release party

Ben Gest

" As formal portraits taken at informal moments, the sitters are caught in fleeting but nonetheless deep bouts of introspection."
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.
Through Dec. 22

"Fabula" by Molly Briggs

Sustainable Architecture in Chicago

"Sustainable Architecture in Chicago: Works in Progress provides a focused look at several innovative works that are models for commitment to sustainable building practices."
MCA, 220 E. Chicago Ave.
Through Jan. 7, 2007