All events on Thursday March 06

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Performing Arts: Dance
Urban Bush Women/Compagnie JANT-BI
Thursday Mar 6 @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
The ladies of Urban Bush Women are an expressive bunch: few companies share so many facets of their performers in every dance. The Brooklyn-based group... View details »
Urban Bush Women/Compagnie JANT-BI
More Flavor: Discussion
Women on the Move
Thursday Mar 6 (6:30–8pm) @ Chicago History Museum
Considering that these days, "feminist" can be a dirty word while a woman can make an impressive bid for president, a retrospective look at the... View details »
Film
Interzone
Thursday Mar 6 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Giveaway
In conceiving her film Interzone, Anne Quirynen looked to William S. Burroughs' short-story collection of the same name. Burroughs' book was written in the distinct,... View details »
Interzone

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Art
The New Authentics
Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 6 (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
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Cindy Loehr
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Art
Nowheresville
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Art
Adaptation
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
The Pogues
Thursday Mar 6 (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
Art
Edward Hopper
Thursday Mar 6 (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 6 (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: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
Thursday Mar 6 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Art
Joseph Noderer
Thursday Mar 6 (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 6 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
My Dinner with Amy
Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Theatre Building Chicago More times »
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner with Amy arrives in... View details »
My Dinner with Amy
Film: Animation
The Zagreb School of Animation
Thursday Mar 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Somewhere between Sleeping Beauty's first kiss and Winnie the Pooh's honey binge, a small Croatian studio called Zagreb reconsidered the possibilities of animation. The "Zagreb... View details »
The Zagreb School of Animation
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Thursday Mar 6 (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