All events on Wednesday January 23

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Music: Rock/Pop
Cornelius
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Metro
Giveaway
Even if Cornelius' orange-cream-soda dream of an album Fantasma didn't net him the pop-crossover status he so richly deserved when it first hit college airwaves... View details »
Cornelius
Film: Documentary
The 11th Hour
Wednesday Jan 23 (7:30pm) @ Beverly Arts Center
In newbie directors Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners' eco-doc The 11th Hour, audiences are presented with one option: change course, or face extinction. Narrated... View details »
The 11th Hour
Music: Hip-Hop
Wyclef Jean
Wednesday Jan 23 (9pm) @ House of Blues
Since cofounding seminal hip-hop group the Fugees back in the '90s, Wyclef Jean has kept busy with solo projects, like 1997's landmark indie-rock-meets-gangster-rap album The... View details »
Wyclef Jean
Art
Drawn by Wesley Willis
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–6pm) @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art More times »
Free
Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack Rocks," you would think... View details »
Drawn by Wesley Willis

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Art
The New Authentics
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Aaron Van Dyke
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke. His appropriation of text,... View details »
Aaron Van Dyke
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
There Will Be Blood
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Soft Life
Wednesday Jan 23 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art mines the often-excruciating emotions... View details »
Soft Life
Art
Clive Barker
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Art
John Sabraw
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ McCormick Gallery More times »
Free
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled Harbinger, he displays elegantly... View details »
John Sabraw
Art
The Commercial Woman
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–7pm) @ Woman Made Gallery More times »
Free
Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions of themselves and others.... View details »
The Commercial Woman
Art
Tiffany Calvert: New Work
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery More times »
Free
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with... View details »
Tiffany Calvert: New Work