Events on Wednesday, January 13
Wednesday 1/13 @ Max Palevsky Cinema
While his recent work has fixated more on the nature of violence, no other filmmaker has delved into our unholy relationship...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/13 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Temporarily departing from the UBS 12 x 12 series tradition of featuring work from one up-and-coming artist at a time, this...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Wednesday 1/13 @ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Linda Warren Gallery
The art of Juan Angel Chavez is like a collage of a forgotten side of Chicago, bringing fragments of the streets...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the early '90s, the Norwegian black-metal scene gained international notoriety following a series of grisly acts committed by some of...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Various Chicago theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Rotofugi
Linder Sterling's punk collages meet Paul Pope's Playboy groove in David van Alphen's exhibit at Rotofugi. Under glistening acrylic resin, big-collared,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Antena
Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Renaissance Society
Moscow-born, Yale-trained artist Anna Shteynshleyger's austere images belie a host of influences. Her large, arresting photographs of the Siberian countryside are...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Wednesday 1/13 @ Stage 773
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival began nine years ago when producer Brian Posen booked a six-week run at the Theatre Building...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Wednesday 1/13 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Gallery 400
Mathew Paul Jinks' film The Queen's Tailor, which ran earlier this year at Green Lantern Gallery, used the classic Ealing farce...
Wednesday 1/13 @ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. With nine cute, floppy...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Shrine
Brazilian Funk returns to The Shrine for the month of February! DJs FLX and David Pardo will spin the Latin Spectrum...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Wednesday 1/13 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
