Events on Saturday, February 23
Saturday 2/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Curator Ingrid Schaffner has written prolifically on topics such as surrealism (including an in-depth investigation of Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion...
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Saturday 2/23 @ Schubas
Twenty-five-year-old Annie Clark has quite the maelstrom of ideas. Luckily, she also has a wholly capable musical persona with which to...
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Saturday 2/23 @ Millennium Park
Millennium Park's seasonal Museum of Modern Ice is more than a frozen-painting spectacle; there's also an adjacent heated tent that hosts...
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Saturday 2/23 @ Double Door
They might be one line short of a collective coronary, but since the 2005 doc New York Doll (following bassist...
Saturday 2/23 @ Funky Buddha Lounge
The Sex Workers' Art Show is to the sex industry what the Vagina Monologues is to lady-parts — at least when...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
International Kennel Club Dog Shows
Saturday 2/23 @ McCormick Place
So you've watched Christopher Guest's mockumentary Best in Show over 20 times now — it might be time for the real...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Saturday 2/23 @ The Blue Theatre
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Gescheidle
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Saturday 2/23 @ Linda Warren Gallery
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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....
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 2/23 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
