Events on Monday, February 23
Monday 2/23 @ Chicago Cultural Center
This installment of the Cultural Center's new series of conversations between artists and scientists features the pioneer of "bio art," Chicago-based...
Monday 2/23 @ Harris Theater
A complete music setting for the Latin Mass, Bach's Mass in B Minor is justifiably considered one of the most sublime...
Ongoing Events
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Monday 2/23 @ 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...
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still...
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Various locations
As the recession puts a damper on your dining budget, the return of Chicago Restaurant Week grants you temporary respite from...
Monday 2/23 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Monday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 2/23 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
