Events on Sunday, January 27
Sunday 1/27 @ 32nd & Urban
With extraordinary detail and an intensely vibrant palette, James "Casper" Jankowiak's new work channels the cycle of random patterns that occurs...
Sunday 1/27 @ Mess Hall
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulated media consolidation, the number of independent radio stations in Chicago has shrunk to a...
Sunday 1/27 @ Bin 36
Steve Martin was at the top of his comic game when he starred in carefree classic The Jerk, the story of...
Ongoing Events
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Sunday 1/27 @ Doc Films
In The King of Kong, director Seth Gordon finds two subjects so perfect, they couldn't have been better created by...
Sunday 1/27 @ Alogon Gallery
Local video-art enthusiast Jefferson Godard has selected six works from his private collection in which artists use their bodies for...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ Beverly Bike and Ski
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ 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...
Sunday 1/27 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
