Events on Sunday, February 10

Lunar New Year Parade

Festival: Parade

Lunar New Year Parade

Sunday 2/10 @ Wentworth Ave

The most celebrated Chinese holiday, the Lunar New... 

Keren Ann w/ Dean & Britta

Music

Keren Ann

Sunday 2/10 @ Lakeshore Theater

The sultry sounds of chanteuse Keren Ann evoke a Mazzy Star-like vision of a weary world. The French singer/songwriter's self-titled fifth... 

Workshop/Class

Valentine Block Printing Workshop

Sunday 2/10 @ Sacred Art

There's a recession on the horizon (or so... 

[SOLD OUT] Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues

Music

[SOLD OUT] Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues

Sunday 2/10 @ Vic Theatre

Cat Power returns to the Vic with her new release, Jukebox. The album, Chan Marshall's followup to 2006's gem The Greatest,... 

Ongoing Events

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Peter Hoffman: <em>Post-Paintings</em>

Art

Peter Hoffman: Post-Paintings

Sunday 2/10 @ Mini Dutch Gallery

Chicago artist Peter Hoffman drew inspiration for his newest art from… an Internet questionnaire. For his exhibit Post-Paintings, Hoffman created his... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Sunday 2/10 @ Smart Museum of Art

It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,... 

<em>There Will Be Blood</em>

Film

There Will Be Blood

Sunday 2/10 @ Various locations

It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... 

<em>Body Collective: Selected Videos from the Collection of Jefferson Godard</em>

Art

Body Collective

Sunday 2/10 @ Alogon Gallery

  Local video-art enthusiast Jefferson Godard has selected six works from his private collection in which artists use their bodies for... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Sunday 2/10 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... 

<I>Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger</I>

Art

Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

See and Ski Beverly Hills

Sports

See and Ski Beverly Hills

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<em>This Land Is Your Land</em>

Art: Photography

This Land Is Your Land

Sunday 2/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US... 

Special Event

Paintings Below Zero

Sunday 2/10 @ Millennium Park

The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing Chicago winter and... 

Kate&#345;ina Šedá

Art

Kateřina Šedá

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Sunday 2/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Sunday 2/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Commercial Woman</em>

Art

The Commercial Woman

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<em>Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence</em>

Art: Photography

Girls on the Verge

Sunday 2/10 @ 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...