All events on Tuesday January 15

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Music: Rock/Pop
Old School Freight Train
Tuesday Jan 15 (8–10pm) @ Schubas
Charlottesville, Virginia's acoustic five-piece Old School Freight Train aren't exactly what we would call "old school," though their roots are firmly in bluegrass and jazz.... View details »
Old School Freight Train
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Literary Gangs of Chicago
Tuesday Jan 15 (6:30–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Free
The ongoing Literary Gangs of Chicago series takes over the Puck's Café at the MCA with a new group of readers and writers every third... View details »
Literary Gangs of Chicago

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Art
William Pope.L
Tuesday Jan 15 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume, to draw attention to... View details »
William Pope.L
Art
The New Authentics
Tuesday Jan 15 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
The New Authentics
Art
Mapping the Self
Tuesday Jan 15 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck has organized an exhibition... View details »
Mapping the Self
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Tuesday Jan 15 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Tuesday Jan 15 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant inner conflicts of Lebanese... View details »
Rania Matar
Art
Kateřina Šedá
Tuesday Jan 15 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana back into family life... View details »
Kateřina Šedá
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Tuesday Jan 15 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art Institute's photography exhibition Girls... View details »
Girls on the Verge
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Tuesday Jan 15 (3pm–midnight) @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared its film adaptation might... View details »
Persepolis
Film
Duck Soup
Tuesday Jan 15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Giveaway
The nation of Freedonia is in bad shape at the opening of Duck Soup. The country is fiendish, war-hungry, and nearly bankrupt, so the president... View details »
Duck Soup
Film
There Will Be Blood
Tuesday Jan 15 (9am–midnight) @ Various locations More times »
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild one: There Will Be... View details »
There Will Be Blood
Art
Clive Barker
Tuesday Jan 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
Free
... rror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also happens to be... View details »
Clive Barker
Film: Documentary
The Other Side of the Mirror
Tuesday Jan 15 (4am–midnight) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Last year, Todd Haynes reimagined Bob Dylan's fabled 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance as a literal (i.e. gun-toting) assault. Dylan's chameleonic nature lends itself well... View details »
The Other Side of the Mirror