All events on Sunday January 27

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Art
James Jankowiak
Sunday Jan 27 @ 32nd & Urban
Free
With extraordinary detail and an intensely vibrant palette, James "Casper" Jankowiak's new work channels the cycle of random patterns that occurs throughout our lives. The... View details »
James Jankowiak
More Flavor: Workshop
Liberation Radio Workshop
Sunday Jan 27 (1:30–4:30pm) @ Mess Hall
Free
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulated media consolidation, the number of independent radio stations in Chicago has shrunk to a small, scrappy handful. Sure,... View details »
Liberation Radio Workshop
Art
Body Collective
Sunday Jan 27 (5–8pm) @ Alogon Gallery More times »
Free
... cal video-art enthusiast Jefferson Godard has selected six works from his private collection in which artists use their bodies for provocative experiments. Exploring the... View details »
Body Collective
More Flavor: Food/Wine
The Jerk (1979)
Sunday Jan 27 (6:30–8:30pm) @ Bin 36
Steve Martin was at the top of his comic game when he starred in carefree classic The Jerk, the story of an idiot, Navin Johnson,... View details »
The Jerk (1979)

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Art
The New Authentics
Sunday Jan 27 @ 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
Sunday Jan 27 (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
Sunday Jan 27 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hizzoner
Sunday Jan 27 @ Beverly Arts Center More times »
After dazzling Chicago audiences for almost two years, Hizzoner hits the road. Rich in Chicago history, Hizzoner takes a personal look at "da first": Richard... View details »
Hizzoner
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Sunday Jan 27 (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
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–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
More Flavor: Sports
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Sunday Jan 27 (1–2pm) @ Beverly Bike and Ski More times »
Free
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic workout for every major... View details »
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Sunday Jan 27 (10am–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
Sunday Jan 27 (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
Sunday Jan 27 (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
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–5pm) @ 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
The Commercial Woman
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–4pm) @ 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
Film: Documentary
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Sunday Jan 27 @ Doc Films More times »
In The King of Kong, director Seth Gordon finds two subjects so perfect, they couldn't have been better created by screenwriters. On one side... View details »
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters