Events on Wednesday, January 21
Wednesday 1/21 @ University of Chicago, Cochrane Woods Arts Center, Rm 157
Walid Raad isn't the only contemporary artist to traverse the fuzzy borderline between documentary and fiction in his work, but few...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Green Lantern
Chicagoans are used to complaining about the weather, wincing at and commiserating about below-zero temps as if we're experiencing them for...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
As the title of the film makes clear, director Howard Alk's The Murder of Fred Hampton pulls no punches about what...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/21 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Jason Robert Bell's last exhibition in Chicago featured paintings of a yeti-like alter-ego. Since then, the Brooklyn-based artist's oeuvre has both...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Smart Museum of Art
China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Wednesday 1/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Wednesday 1/21 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Wednesday 1/21 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
Wednesday 1/21 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Wednesday 1/21 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Auditorium Theatre
After Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined television sketch comedy, the troupe turned its attention to feature films. With financing help from...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Graham Foundation
Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Tony Wight Gallery
However you want to describe them — stately busts for a post-marble age; eerie Frankenstein constructions; a poacher's trophies from the...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artists from Matisse to Rothko have topped off their careers by designing chapels that serve as places of spiritual contemplation and...
Wednesday 1/21 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Wednesday 1/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Wednesday 1/21 @ The Goodman Theatre
Set on a rugged New England farm in 1850, Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms stacks up human passions like firewood...
Wednesday 1/21 @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and...
Wednesday 1/21 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Wednesday 1/21 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
