Events on Sunday, February 3
Chinese New Year: Dim Sum Brunch
Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Chopping Block
Celebrate the Lunar New Year and kick off the upcoming Year of the Rat with traditional dim sum treats. Literally translated,...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
Since "dick" might have shifted meaning since 1940, it's only fair to point out that, here, it means "detective" or "guard."...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Still in its inaugural season, but already garnering heaps of critical acclaim, Chicago's Baroque Band is intent on becoming the nation's...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Beverly Bike and Ski
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Alogon Gallery
Local video-art enthusiast Jefferson Godard has selected six works from his private collection in which artists use their bodies for...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Renaissance Society
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The prevailing wisdom in rural
Sunday 2/ 3 @ Woman Made Gallery
Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions...
Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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...
