Events on Saturday, February 2
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Alliance Francaise de Chicago
Laissez les bon temps roulez! (That's "Let the good times roll," for the Mardi Gras-uninitiated Yankees.) Just in time for Fat...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Abbey Pub
London's Ed Handley and Andy Turner (aka minimalist electronic duo Plaid) have crafted some of the most lushly understated ambient music...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Doc Films
Chronicling the rise and fall of one of the most successful drug dealers in US history, American Gangster is a study...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Beat Kitchen
Low-power FM radio stations allow nonprofits, churches, and community organizations to bring their local perspective to the airwaves. And although the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Western Exhibitions
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke....
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The prevailing wisdom in rural
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Gallery 400
Andy Roche's film-based installation finds a common thread running between the ever-elusive Catholic leftist movement and recent cultural phenomena. Roche juxtaposes...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 65GRAND
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Devening Projects + Editions
With metallic, elegant renderings of urban detritus and wasted cities, Austrian artist Felix Malnig carves his own niche out of the...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
