All events on Wednesday March 05

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Pogues
Wednesday Mar 5 (7:30pm) @ Riviera Theatre More times »
Thanks to the Pogues, St. Patrick's Day comes a little bit early this year. The band's enduring take on traditional Irish folk — filtered through... View details »
The Pogues
Film: Documentary
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Wednesday Mar 5 (7:30pm) @ Block Cinema
Free
Six months ago, the UN's John Holmes described the sexual violence in the war-torn Congo as "the worst in the world." But despite the efforts... View details »
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Film: Documentary
The Dances of Sybil Shearer on Film
Wednesday Mar 5 (6–7:30pm) @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Free
Sybil Shearer was the consummate "dancer's dancer," an idiosyncratic modernist who circumnavigated the globe of her own creativity, following it into even the most forbidding... View details »
The Dances of Sybil Shearer on Film

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The New Authentics
Wednesday Mar 5 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
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Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
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Cindy Loehr
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored lighting, and a collaborative... View details »
Cindy Loehr
Art
Soft Life
Wednesday Mar 5 (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: Photography
Border Film Project
Wednesday Mar 5 (9am–5pm) @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University More times »
Free
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means that, for all the... View details »
Border Film Project
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Nowheresville
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Thomas Robertello Gallery More times »
Free
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards... View details »
Nowheresville
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Adaptation
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
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Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Wednesday Mar 5 (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: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US national identity, politics, and... View details »
This Land Is Your Land
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Joseph Noderer
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
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James J. Peterson
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
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John Phillips: New Paintings
Wednesday Mar 5 (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
Black Girl
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Thought to be the first feature film made by an African in the sub-Sahara, Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl is a near-forgotten milestone of '60s cinema.... View details »
Black Girl