Events on Thursday, January 24

Richard Shweder: Rethinking Cultural Psychology... and the “Enlightenment” Along the Way

Special Event

Rethinking Cultural Psychology

Thursday 1/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center

The University of Chicago's Richard Shweder is a cultural anthropologist who has taught in Nairobi, Kenya, and done extensive fieldwork in... 

Mung w/ Pillars and Tongues and A Tundra

Music

Mung

Thursday 1/24 @ The Hideout

Considering that three-fourths of Mung come equipped with Northwestern music and electrical engineering degrees, it's little wonder that the band's exhilarating,... 

Mojitos 101

Food/Wine

Mojitos 101

Thursday 1/24 @ Carnivale

The US embargo on Cuba might have been around since the early '60s, but that hasn't stopped the finer points of... 

Elliot Brood w/ Speck Mountain and Murder Mystery

Music

Speck Mountain

Thursday 1/24 @ Schubas

Recently signed to Peacefrog, José González' home in the UK, Chicago-based Speck Mountain make dreamy, analogue music with Space Echo-drenched guitars,... 

Ongoing Events

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Thursday 1/24 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... 

Aaron Van Dyke

Art

Aaron Van Dyke

Thursday 1/24 @ Western Exhibitions

Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke.... 

<I>Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger</I>

Art

Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger

Thursday 1/24 @ Smart Museum of Art

Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Thursday 1/24 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... 

Tiffany Calvert: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Tiffany Calvert: New Work

Thursday 1/24 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery

Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath... 

John Sabraw: <em>Harbinger</em>

Art

John Sabraw

Thursday 1/24 @ McCormick Gallery

Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Thursday 1/24 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Thursday 1/24 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared... 

<em>Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence</em>

Art: Photography

Girls on the Verge

Thursday 1/24 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art... 

<em>There Will Be Blood</em>

Film

There Will Be Blood

Thursday 1/24 @ Various locations

It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... 

<em>The Commercial Woman</em>

Art

The Commercial Woman

Thursday 1/24 @ Woman Made Gallery

Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions... 

Kate&#345;ina Šedá

Art

Kateřina Šedá

Thursday 1/24 @ The Renaissance Society

Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Thursday 1/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

Clive Barker: <em>Apocalypses: Paintings and Works on Paper</em>

Art

Clive Barker

Thursday 1/24 @ Packer Schopf Gallery

  Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also... 

<em>Drawn by Wesley Willis</em>

Art

Drawn by Wesley Willis

Thursday 1/24 @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art

Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack...