Events on Thursday, January 24
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...
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...
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
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thursday 1/24 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
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...
