All events on Wednesday January 30

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Reading
Susan Wicklund
Wednesday Jan 30 (7:30pm) @ Women & Children First Bookstore
Free
Sure, films like Juno and Knocked Up make passing references to it, but pop culture, and even society at large, still regard "that word that... View details »
Susan Wicklund
Film
Shadows
Wednesday Jan 30 (6–7:30pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Giveaway
Shadows, the latest entry in the Siskel Center's Great Transition series, is one of the few Cassavetes movies to attract broad critical acclaim. Straddling Italian... View details »
Shadows
Film
42nd Street
Wednesday Jan 30 (1:30–2:30pm) @ Portage Theater
We tend to think of Depression-era musicals as assembly-manufactured escapism. But like most of Busby Berkeley's early-Warner Bros. triumphs, 42nd Street's toe-tapping ditties take a... View details »
42nd Street

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Art
The New Authentics
Wednesday Jan 30 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 30 (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
Aaron Van Dyke
Wednesday Jan 30 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke. His appropriation of text,... View details »
Aaron Van Dyke
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday Jan 30 (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
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Wednesday Jan 30 (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
Wednesday Jan 30 (10am–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
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Wednesday Jan 30 (10:30am–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
Wednesday Jan 30 (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
Wednesday Jan 30 (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
Wednesday Jan 30 (9am–8pm) @ 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
Clive Barker
Wednesday Jan 30 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
Free
... rror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also happens to be... View details »
Clive Barker
Art: Photography
Border Film Project
Thursday Jan 31 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University More times »
Free
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means that, for all the... View details »
Border Film Project
Art
Nowheresville
Wednesday Jan 30 (11am–6pm) @ Thomas Robertello Gallery More times »
Free
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards... View details »
Nowheresville
Art
John Sabraw
Wednesday Jan 30 (10am–5:30pm) @ McCormick Gallery More times »
Free
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled Harbinger, he displays elegantly... View details »
John Sabraw
Art
The Commercial Woman
Wednesday Jan 30 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Art
Drawn by Wesley Willis
Wednesday Jan 30 (10am–6pm) @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art More times »
Free
Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack Rocks," you would think... View details »
Drawn by Wesley Willis
Art
Tiffany Calvert: New Work
Wednesday Jan 30 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery More times »
Free
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with... View details »
Tiffany Calvert: New Work