All events on Thursday February 28

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More Flavor: Discussion
Imaging by Numbers
Thursday Feb 28 (6–7pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
Free
The history of tech-savvy artists reaches back to the '50s, when computers were massive machines that took up entire laboratories. Now the world is full... View details »
Imaging by Numbers
Music: DJ
MEN w/ Hey Willpower
Thursday Feb 28 (9pm) @ Sonotheque
Giveaway
With their band Le Tigre on hiatus, JD Samson and Johanna Fateman hit the road as the DJ/remix team MEN to do what they've always... View details »
MEN w/ Hey Willpower
Music: Rock/Pop
Pelican
Thursday Feb 28 (9–11pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
For Chicago's Pelican, the term "instru-metal" seems more reductive by the day. No, there are no vocals. Yes, there are metal influences. Certainly, the drummer's... View details »
Pelican

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Art
The New Authentics
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Joseph Noderer
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
My Dinner with Amy
Thursday Feb 28 (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