Events on Thursday, February 21
Thursday 2/21 @ Chicago Public Library - West Chicago Branch
The Motor City's vibrant music scene during the '60s and early '70s encompassed Motown artists like the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, the...
Thursday 2/21 @ Abbey Pub
On his latest solo effort, A Year in the Wilderness, singer/bass guitarist John Doe infuses a set of alt-country tunes with...
Artists at Work Forums: Meet the DCA Curators
Thursday 2/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For insight about the Chicago arts scene, the Artists at Work Forum is one of the best sources around. Tonight, get...
Thursday 2/21 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
I Love Presets, the local audio/video art conglomerate of Jon Satrom, Jason Soliday, and Rob Ray, presents its work for this...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means...
Thursday 2/21 @ Stage 773
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective....
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
More often than not, biographies of the Brontës tend to fortify the pair's reputation as sickly sisters of misery. Choreographer Margi...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ The Architrouve
Susan Goss, proprietor of West Town Tavern, has been collecting all of West Town's old, discarded ashtrays, which were rendered obsolete...
Thursday 2/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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...
Thursday 2/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/21 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
