Events on Tuesday, March 4

A Public Conversation: Radio Diaries feat. Alex Kotlowitz and Joe Richman

Special Event

Radio Diaries feat. Alex Kotlowitz and Joe Richman

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Harris Hall, Northwestern University

Video may have killed the radio star, but the art of audio storytelling lives on. As anyone who's ever heard a... 

Bowerbirds w/ Phosphorescent and Brendan Losch

Music

Bowerbirds

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Schubas

Less than a year ago, Bowerbirds were the best band you'd never heard of — now, they've been nominated for a... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

The New Authentics

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Cindy Loehr: <em>Twilight Knowledge</em>

Art

Cindy Loehr

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger</I>

Art

Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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.... 

<em>This Land Is Your Land</em>

Art: Photography

This Land Is Your Land

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Border Film Project</em>

Art: Photography

Border Film Project

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Joseph Noderer

Art

Joseph Noderer

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Linda Warren Gallery

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

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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,...