All events on Thursday March 27

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Performing Arts: Dance
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Thursday Mar 27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Sold Out!
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories of both a building... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Film
CameraLESS Films
Thursday Mar 27 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
"A film festival without cameras?" you say, "But that's impossible!" In fact, over the years, a handful of avant-garde directors and artists have invented clever... View details »
CameraLESS Films
More Flavor: Lecture
Queer Exclusions
Thursday Mar 27 (6:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
The little-known Uniting American Families Act of 2007 notwithstanding, the intersection of immigration, naturalization, and citizenship with sexuality remains an obscure political issue and an... View details »
Queer Exclusions
Music: DJ
Holy Ghost!
Thursday Mar 27 (9pm) @ Sonotheque
Free
Having released their first 12-inch on DFA Records, the Holy Ghost! now bring their thumping, analog dance beats to Sonotheque. Their tracks hint at soul... View details »
Holy Ghost!
Music: Rock/Pop
Panther
Thursday Mar 27 (9pm–midnight) @ Abbey Pub
Giveaway
Last year, Charlie Salas-Humara (aka Panther) emerged with the fun (if uneven) Secret Lawns, a go-for-broke album of bedroom electro-twitters, hyperactive digital beats, and Prince-ly... View details »
Panther

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Art
The New Authentics
Thursday Mar 27 @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (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
Thursday Mar 27 (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
Thursday Mar 27 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (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
James J. Peterson
Thursday Mar 27 (noon–5pm) @ Gescheidle More times »
Free
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts the only way he... View details »
James J. Peterson
Art: Photography
Craig Doty
Thursday Mar 27 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Thursday Mar 27 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show at the newly christened... View details »
John Phillips: New Paintings
Film
Chop Shop
Thursday Mar 27 (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
Thursday Mar 27 (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
Snow Angels
Thursday Mar 27 @ 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
Thursday Mar 27 (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