All events on Friday February 22

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More Flavor: Discussion
Looking, Listening, and the Emotional Responses to Art
Friday Feb 22 (noon) @ University of Chicago - Smart Musuem of Art
Free
Ask two people what they feel when they look at, say, the Mona Lisa, and you'll most likely get two completely different responses. One might... View details »
Looking, Listening, and the Emotional Responses to Art
Music: Rock/Pop
Jay Reatard
Friday Feb 22 (10–10pm) @ 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 Prince look like My... View details »
Jay Reatard
Art
Joseph Noderer
Friday Feb 22 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery More times »
Free
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could easily be mistaken for... View details »
Joseph Noderer
Art
James J. Peterson
Friday Feb 22 (noon–5pm) @ Gescheidle More times »
Free
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts the only way he... View details »
James J. Peterson
Film
Summer Love
Friday Feb 22 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Polish director Piotr Uklanski debuts with Summer Love, a heady homage to spaghetti westerns. The episodic plot is the definition of western primitivism — the... View details »
Summer Love
Performing Arts: Comedy
Bear Force One
Friday Feb 22 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Giveaway
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work would one day springboard... View details »
Bear Force One
More Flavor: Spectacle
International Kennel Club Dog Shows
Friday Feb 22 @ McCormick Place More times »
So you've watched Christopher Guest's mockumentary Best in Show over 20 times now — it might be time for the real deal. This weekend-long canine... View details »
International Kennel Club Dog Shows
More Flavor: City Gem
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Friday Feb 22 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
Free
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 the progressive community Hull... View details »
More Flavor: City Gem
Owl Prowl
Friday Feb 22 @ North Park Village Nature Center More times »
Free
Henry Thoreau once noted that the hooting of owls "faintly suggests the infinite roominess of nature." Strangely, as rural landscapes give way to ever-burgeoning urban... View details »
Owl Prowl

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Art
The New Authentics
Friday Feb 22 @ 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
Friday Feb 22 (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
Gordon Matta-Clark
Friday Feb 22 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring to the loss of... View details »
Gordon Matta-Clark
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday Feb 22 (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
Film
Labyrinth
Friday Feb 22 (11:59pm–2am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Any fantasy movie starring David Bowie is bound to be genius. This one comes to us from the imagination of Jim Henson, whose delicate direction... View details »
Labyrinth
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Friday Feb 22 (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
Mike Lash
Friday Feb 22 (noon–6pm) @ GARDENFresh More times »
Free
Mike Lash's portraits — with their simple line-work, sardonic one-liners, and assertive, comic-book style — have always been the artist's signature, but his new work... View details »
Mike Lash
Art
Cindy Loehr
Friday Feb 22 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored lighting, and a collaborative... View details »
Cindy Loehr
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Friday Feb 22 (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
There Will Be Blood
Friday Feb 22 (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
Friday Feb 22 (9am–5pm) @ 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: Photography
Border Film Project
Friday Feb 22 (9am–5pm) @ 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
Friday Feb 22 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Paintings Below Zero
Friday Feb 22 (9am–midnight) @ Millennium Park More times »
Free
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing Chicago winter and adding the word "festival."... View details »
Paintings Below Zero
Art
Adaptation
Friday Feb 22 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from... View details »
Adaptation
Art
Drawn by Wesley Willis
Friday Feb 22 (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
Edward Hopper
Friday Feb 22 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective. It includes his most... View details »
Edward Hopper
Art
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Friday Feb 22 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor painting, with landscapes depicting... View details »
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Art: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
Friday Feb 22 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US national identity, politics, and... View details »
This Land Is Your Land
Art
Ashtrays to Art
Friday Feb 22 (10am–6pm) @ The Architrouve More times »
Free
Susan Goss, proprietor of West Town Tavern, has been collecting all of West Town's old, discarded ashtrays, which were rendered obsolete after Chicago recently enacted... View details »
Ashtrays to Art
Performing Arts: Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Friday Feb 22 (8–10pm) @ The Blue Theatre More times »
Free
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart — this scenario might sound... View details »
Little Shop of Horrors
Performing Arts: Dance
The Dance COLEctive
Friday Feb 22 (8–8pm) @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
More often than not, biographies of the Brontës tend to fortify the pair's reputation as sickly sisters of misery. Choreographer Margi Cole, however, became intrigued... View details »
The Dance COLEctive
Performing Arts: Theatre
My Dinner with Amy
Friday Feb 22 (8pm) @ Theatre Building Chicago More times »
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 with Amy arrives in... View details »
My Dinner with Amy