Events on Monday, February 1
Monday 2/ 1 @ Harold Washington Library
T.C. Boyle is the kind of author who believes that a book should transport you, who doesn't shy away from the...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Anyone who caught the October premiere of Black Violet's first installment experienced an A/V collaboration as absorbing as it initially seemed...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Borders
A New York Times Best Book of 2007, Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End nailed corporate-cube life, as seen...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Links Hall
Composed by Chad Willetts A view from the eyes of your mind"—In a completely darkened space, the evening explores your...
Ongoing Events
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Full of black-and-white photographs with unassuming subject-matter, mostly tacked to the walls without frames, 50% Grey is resolutely low-key. That's not...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Monday 2/ 1 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Long overlooked as an auxiliary part of the grassroots-rock movement, the art scene that helps promote DIY rock 'n roll at...
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Schubas
Let's admit it: singer/songwriter types can be a little soft. Ike Reilly is of a different sort, as was evident at...
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
Joan Didion is one of our most acclaimed essayists, and her incisive observational gifts and fluid style drive The Year of...
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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,...
Monday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Monday 2/ 1 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Monday 2/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
