Events on Wednesday, February 27

Crystal Castles w/ HEALTH and Brilliant Pebbles
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Music: Rock/Pop
Crystal Castles
@ Abbey Pub
After a string of well-received 7-inches, the Toronto-based Crystal Castles are finally releasing their much-anticipated full-length this March. Jamming on homemade...  View details »
<em>The Kite Runner </em>(2007)
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Film
The Kite Runner (2007)
@ Beverly Arts Center
Khaled Hosseini's tearjerker debut novel hits the silver screen with a dose of Hollywood splendor. The story follows Amir, whose...  View details »
Thomas Dunning presents Hoot Night: Streisand vs Violence
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Music: Rock/Pop
Hoot Night
@ Schubas
Hoot Night is a beloved Chicago tradition in which local musicians build a night of casual covers around a central theme....  View details »

Ongoing Events

Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Exhibition
Paintings Below Zero
@ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing Chicago winter and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Border Film Project</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art: Photography
Border Film Project
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>
Month_02 Thursday Day_28
Art
The New Authentics
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards: <em>Nowheresville</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Nowheresville
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Edward Hopper
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Edward Hopper
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger</I>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>This Land Is Your Land</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Soft Life</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Soft Life
@ Hyde Park Art Center
Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cindy Loehr: <em>Twilight Knowledge</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Cindy Loehr
@ Monique Meloche
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Mapping the Self</i>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Mapping the Self
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Drawn by Wesley Willis</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Drawn by Wesley Willis
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>There Will Be Blood</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Film
There Will Be Blood
@ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...  View details »
Ongoing
Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
@ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
James J. Peterson: <em>Snooping for a New Lexis of Peace </em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
James J. Peterson
@ Gescheidle
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Joseph Noderer
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Joseph Noderer
@ Linda Warren Gallery
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Adaptation</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Adaptation
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free