All events on Monday February 25

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More Flavor: Discussion
Rediscovering American Cinema
Monday Feb 25 (7pm) @ Doc Films
Free
With their pithy taglines and mammoth budgets, Hollywood blockbusters paint a bleak picture of American taste — so it's little wonder that the film brainiacs... View details »
Rediscovering American Cinema
More Flavor: Workshop
Songwriting Workshop
Monday Feb 25 (6:45–7:45pm) @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Free
Whether you fancy yourself the next Woody Guthrie or just enjoy jamming with your buddies in the garage, the Old Town School of Folk Music's... View details »
Songwriting Workshop

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Art
The New Authentics
Monday Feb 25 @ 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: Photography
Rania Matar
Monday Feb 25 (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: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Monday Feb 25 (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
Monday Feb 25 (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
Monday Feb 25 (9am–8pm) @ 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
Monday Feb 25 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Paintings Below Zero
Monday Feb 25 (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
Drawn by Wesley Willis
Monday Feb 25 (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
Monday Feb 25 (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
Monday Feb 25 (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
Monday Feb 25 (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