Events on Friday, January 25
Friday 1/25 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Chicago artist Anne Wilson created three intricate artworks investigating the process of weaving textiles. Wind-Up — a five-day performance that runs...
Friday 1/25 @ Lakeshore Theater
With Ultimate Reality, the Lakeshore Theatre confirms its status as Chicago's destination for avant-garde entertainment. The wacky performance is based on...
Friday 1/25 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Bible tells us many things, most of which are up for interpretation. While some claim the Bible prohibits same-sex relationships,...
Friday 1/25 @ Vic Theatre
Inevitable Interpol comparisons aside, Editors' Mercury Prize-nominated debut, The Back Room, was a Lunesta-level sleeper chock full of post-punk-revisionist ballads and...
Ongoing Events
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Friday 1/25 @ Doc Films
In The King of Kong, director Seth Gordon finds two subjects so perfect, they couldn't have been better created by...
Friday 1/25 @ Western Exhibitions
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke....
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Friday 1/25 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 65GRAND
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ Music Box Theatre
The Dark Crystal's characters aren't your run-of-the-mill Muppets. They come from the planet Thra, whose dominant race, the UrSkeks, split into...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
