All events on Tuesday March 25

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More Flavor: Discussion
Heroes, Statesmen, Philanderers, and Fools
Tuesday Mar 25 (7pm) @ Chicago History Museum
Pop culture's fascination with the White House has begotten dozens of fictional presidents, from Peter Sellers' bumbling Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove to Martin Sheen... View details »
Heroes, Statesmen, Philanderers, and Fools
More Flavor: Lecture
Mark Moffett
Tuesday Mar 25 (7:30–9pm) @ The Field Museum
Entomologist, journalist, and photographer Mark Moffett (aka "Dr. Bugs") is a serious academic with a taste for adventure. Moffett has won numerous awards for his... View details »
Mark Moffett
Music: Rock/Pop
The Mekons
Tuesday Mar 25 (7pm) @ Schubas
Genre-defying post-punks the Mekons have been playing with the same lineup for roughly 15 years — almost half their career. They hit up Schubas tonight... View details »
The Mekons
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Tilly & the Wall
Tuesday Mar 25 (7–11pm) @ Subterranean
Sold Out!
Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly & the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with a tap dancer instead... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Tilly & the Wall

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Art
The New Authentics
Tuesday Mar 25 @ 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
Gordon Matta-Clark
Tuesday Mar 25 (10am–8pm) @ 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: Photography
Rania Matar
Tuesday Mar 25 (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
Soft Life
Tuesday Mar 25 (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
Adaptation
Tuesday Mar 25 (10am–4pm) @ 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
Edward Hopper
Tuesday Mar 25 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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
Tuesday Mar 25 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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
Joseph Noderer
Tuesday Mar 25 (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: Photography
Craig Doty
Tuesday Mar 25 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often focus on the human... View details »
Craig Doty
Film
Chop Shop
Tuesday Mar 25 (7pm–midnight) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all similarities stop. Rather than... View details »
Chop Shop
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Tuesday Mar 25 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series Are You Rea (1966-67).... View details »
Robert Heinecken
Film
A Girl Cut In Two
Tuesday Mar 25 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Director Claude Chabrol has a knack for attacking the egotism and pretense of the bourgeoisie. In A Girl Cut in Two, Ludivine Sagnier plays a... View details »
A Girl Cut In Two
Film
Snow Angels
Tuesday Mar 25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of small-town America working in... View details »
Snow Angels
Art
Medium Cool
Tuesday Mar 25 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms, as reflected in the... View details »
Medium Cool