Events on Monday, February 4

<em>Verboten!</em> (1959)

Film

Verboten!

Monday 2/ 4 @ Doc Films

Samuel Fuller's Verboten! is as much a love story as it is a war movie. Set in Germany following World War... 

Mt. St. Helens w/ Johnny Rumble and Strange Young Lovers

Music

Mt. St. Helens

Monday 2/ 4 @ The Empty Bottle

With almost every band in Chicago mining the '60s, '70s, and '80s for material, it's actually kind of refreshing to hear... 

Ongoing Events

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Drawn by Wesley Willis</em>

Art

Drawn by Wesley Willis

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Daughters of Wisdom</em> (2007)

Film: Documentary

Daughters of Wisdom

Monday 2/ 4 @ Facets Cinémathèque

The prevailing wisdom in rural Nangchen, Tibet — where director Bari Pearlman shot Daughters of Wisdom —... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Monday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

<em>Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence</em>

Art: Photography

Girls on the Verge

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>There Will Be Blood</em>

Film

There Will Be Blood

Monday 2/ 4 @ Various locations

It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... 

<em>This Land Is Your Land</em>

Art: Photography

This Land Is Your Land

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Border Film Project</em>

Art: Photography

Border Film Project

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Monday 2/ 4 @ 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... 

Special Event

Paintings Below Zero

Monday 2/ 4 @ Millennium Park

The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing Chicago winter and... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 2/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...