Events on Thursday, February 11
Thursday 2/11 @ Harold Washington Library
The main characters in Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned aren't exactly happy or fortunate men (disappointment and bad luck flow...
Thursday 2/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the late '70s Dara Birnbaum was one of the first artists to swipe, sample, and deconstruct TV imagery. In pivotal...
Thursday 2/11 @ Ferguson Lecture Hall at Columbia College Chicago
Miloš Foreman's last film before Soviet censors hounded the talented young Czech director is a testament to the rising force of...
Opening Reception: The Darker Side of Light
Thursday 2/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
Celebrate the opening of The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900 at the Smart Museum of Art. Discover the...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Thursday 2/11 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Luis Buñuel's 1972...
Ongoing Events
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Thursday 2/11 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Everyone may have a certain building etched into memory, whether one that's magnificent or just personally meaningful. Projected inside a large,...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Thursday 2/11 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Aspen Mays' photographs are among the more colorful, eye-catching works to grace the 12x12 exhibition series, but they're also the product...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/11 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Thursday 2/11 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 2/11 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Thursday 2/11 @ Various Chicago locations
For four days, Chicago serves as a visual-arts mecca for college-level educators, scholars, and students from around the globe. Among the...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Not to be confused with the John Van Druten Isherwood-inspired, Cabaret-inspiring play from which it takes its name, the second show...
Thursday 2/11 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Stephen Daiter Gallery has re-opened at a new location with an exhibition of the tongue-in-cheek British social documentary photographer, Martin...
Thursday 2/11 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Thursday 2/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Thursday 2/11 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ Lakeshore Theater
Sandra Bernhard may be best remembered for her acidic '80s heyday as Madonna's best friend and David Letterman's favorite guest, but...
Thursday 2/11 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted...
Thursday 2/11 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Valentines Weekend at The ComedySportz Theatre!
Thursday 2/11 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
First date? Long time lovers? No matter what age you are, you'll laugh and enjoy our main stage show...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Thursday 2/11 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Thursday 2/11 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Thursday 2/11 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 2/11 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 2/11 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 2/11 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Thursday 2/11 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
