Events on Tuesday, February 5
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Carnivale
Pan-Latin hotspot Carnivale's perpetual party atmosphere, cavernous dining rooms, and over-the-top décor might scream "tourist trap," but the food and cocktails...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Osso Bucco is the story of a lovable mobster trying to enjoy his favorite meal one last time before leaving town....
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Metro
Armed with little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true...
Gentrification: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
In this installment of an ongoing monthly discussion series, experts delve into Chicago's history of public housing to examine the hotly...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The prevailing wisdom in rural
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ McCormick Gallery
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled...
Tuesday 2/ 5 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
