Events on Thursday, March 27

CameraLESS Films / Movies Without Cameras

Film

CameraLESS Films

Thursday 3/27 @ 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... 

Holy Ghost! w/ onefiftyone, Bald Eagle, SR-71 and the Modular DJs

Music: DJ

Holy Ghost!

Thursday 3/27 @ Sonotheque

Having released their first 12-inch on DFA Records, the Holy Ghost! now bring their thumping, analog dance beats to Sonotheque. Their... 

Queer Exclusions: Sexuality and US Citizenship

Special Event

Queer Exclusions

Thursday 3/27 @ 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... 

Panther w/ Detholz!, US Girls, and Slow Gun Shogun

Music

Panther

Thursday 3/27 @ Abbey Pub

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... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Thursday 3/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of... 

Joseph Noderer

Art

Joseph Noderer

Thursday 3/27 @ Linda Warren Gallery

Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Thursday 3/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Thursday 3/27 @ 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>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Thursday 3/27 @ Royal George Theatre Center

Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Thursday 3/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective.... 

Craig Doty

Art: Photography

Craig Doty

Thursday 3/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often... 

[SOLD OUT] Goat Island Performance Group:  <em>The Lastmaker</em>

Dance

[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker

Thursday 3/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories... 

James J. Peterson: <em>Snooping for a New Lexis of Peace </em>

Art

James J. Peterson

Thursday 3/27 @ Gescheidle

In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts... 

<em>Medium Cool</em>:<em> </em>Joy Episalla & Michael Antkowiak

Art

Medium Cool

Thursday 3/27 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery

Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Thursday 3/27 @ 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... 

John Phillips: <em>New Paintings</em>

Art

John Phillips: New Paintings

Thursday 3/27 @ Tony Wight Gallery

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... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Thursday 3/27 @ 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,... 

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

Art

The New Authentics

Thursday 3/27 @ 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>Chop Shop </em>(2007)

Film

Chop Shop

Thursday 3/27 @ Music Box Theatre

Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Thursday 3/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor... 

Robert Heinecken: <em>Dream/Circles/Cycles</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Heinecken

Thursday 3/27 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery

This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series...