Events on Monday, February 2
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Monday 2/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
One of the most heart-wrenching documentaries to appear in decades, Dear Zachary began as a memorial to director Ken Kuenne's friend...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Cuban political artist and performer Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons' newest exhibition seeks to uncover hidden truths and secret knowledge with large-scale Polaroid...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Music Box Theatre
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Various locations
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Monday 2/ 2 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
If artists like Akron/Family, Sufjan Stevens, and Iron and Wine inspired you to pick up that banjo gathering dust in your...
Monday 2/ 2 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
One of the giants of post-war painting, Sigmar Polke is an irreverant experimentalist — an artist of many moves whose work...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Director Pamela Tanner Boll's nuanced documentary investigates the "burden and joy" experienced by women who balance their art-making practice with their...
Monday 2/ 2 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely...
Monday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 2/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
