Events on Friday, February 22
Friday 2/22 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Polish director Piotr Uklanski debuts with Summer Love, a heady homage to spaghetti westerns. The episodic plot is the definition of...
Looking, Listening, and the Emotional Responses to Art
Friday 2/22 @ University of Chicago - Smart Musuem of Art
Ask two people what they feel when they look at, say, the Mona Lisa, and you'll most likely get two completely...
Friday 2/22 @ Reggies Rock Club
Jay Reatard might be the current king of Memphis garage punk, but he's a completist's nightmare — his overflowing discography makes...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/22 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded...
Friday 2/22 @ 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....
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ The Annoyance Theatre
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work...
International Kennel Club Dog Shows
Friday 2/22 @ McCormick Place
So you've watched Christopher Guest's mockumentary Best in Show over 20 times now — it might be time for the real...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ The Architrouve
Susan Goss, proprietor of West Town Tavern, has been collecting all of West Town's old, discarded ashtrays, which were rendered obsolete...
Friday 2/22 @ The Blue Theatre
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —...
Friday 2/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Friday 2/22 @ Gescheidle
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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,...
Friday 2/22 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
Friday 2/22 @ 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...
