All events on Sunday February 24
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- Vampire Hands
- Sunday Feb 24 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- With feet firmly planted across a sweeping generational divide, Vampire Hands build on the swirling psych tradition of the mid-'60s, adding heaping dollops of contemporary... View details »
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- The Globe Pub Oscar Party
- Sunday Feb 24 (7pm) @ The Globe Pub
- Now that the writers' strike is over and the Academy Awards are going ahead as planned, we can all get back to the serious business... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- The New Authentics
- Sunday Feb 24 @ 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 »
- Art
- Mapping the Self
- Sunday Feb 24 (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 »
- Art
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- Sunday Feb 24 (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 »
- Art
- Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
- Sunday Feb 24 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Rania Matar
- Sunday Feb 24 (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 »
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- See and Ski Beverly Hills
- Sunday Feb 24 (1–2pm) @ Beverly Bike and Ski More times »
- Free
- Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic workout for every major... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Girls on the Verge
- Sunday Feb 24 (10am–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 »
- Film
- There Will Be Blood
- Sunday Feb 24 (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 »
- Art
- Soft Life
- Sunday Feb 24 (noon–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 »
- Art
- Peter Hoffman: Post-Paintings
- Sunday Feb 24 (1–5pm) @ Mini Dutch Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chicago artist Peter Hoffman drew inspiration for his newest art from… an Internet questionnaire. For his exhibit Post-Paintings, Hoffman created his pieces by interpreting selected... View details »
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- Paintings Below Zero
- Sunday Feb 24 (9am–midnight) @ Millennium Park More times »
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The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
- Art
- Adaptation
- Sunday Feb 24 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Edward Hopper
- Sunday Feb 24 (10am–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 »
- Art
- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- Sunday Feb 24 (10am–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 »
- Art: Photography
- This Land Is Your Land
- Sunday Feb 24 (noon–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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Sunday Feb 24 (2–4pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- My Dinner with Amy
- Sunday Feb 24 (3pm) @ 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 »
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- International Kennel Club Dog Shows
- Sunday Feb 24 @ 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 »
