Events on Thursday, February 7
Thursday 2/ 7 @ The James Hotel
With bootcuts, skinnies, and jean jackets a staple of most wardrobes, denim's ubiquity in American fashion can't be denied. But for...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Music Box Theatre
Scope out a bell-bottom-clad Pete Townshend and the rest of the boys as they tromp through a decade of interviews, drum-smashing,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Susan Marshall choreographs like Beckett wrote: thoughtfully, choosing a small vocabulary of elements to represent a multitude of ideas, and using...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The prevailing wisdom in rural
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Western Exhibitions
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke....
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 7 @ 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,...
