Events on Thursday, February 11
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- Art: Shorts
- Dara Birnbaum
- @ 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... View details »
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- Wells Tower
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Firemen's Ball
- @ 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... View details »
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- Opening Reception: The Darker Side of Light
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Luis Buñuel's 1972... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Cadillac Palace Theater
- If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rhinofest
- @ Prop Thtr
- For the next month, Prop Thtr is the place to be in Chicago for absurdly original theater, avant-garde performance art, and... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Martin Parr
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Private Lives
- @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and... View details »
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- Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
- @ Walsh Gallery
- A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness... View details »
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- Production Site
- @ 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... View details »
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- The White Ribbon
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Taming of the Flu
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Aspen Mays
- @ 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... View details »
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- Fish Tank
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Acclaimed British drama Fish Tank follows troubled teen and aspiring urban dancer Mia Williams (played by first-time actress Katie Jarvis) as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- I Am a Camera
- @ 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... View details »
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- Angel Otero
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape
- @ The Goodman Theatre
- From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy... View details »
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- Laura Letinsky
- @ Monique Meloche
- Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether... View details »
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- Picturing the Studio
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Anna Shteynshleyger
- @ Renaissance Society
- The Renaissance Society mounts a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (b. 1977). Trained at Yale, Shteynshleyger belongs... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 50% Grey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Broken Embraces
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sandra Bernhard
- @ 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... View details »
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- Italics
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Taking a new angle on Italian art since 1968, Italics ruffled a few feathers last year when it was first mounted... View details »
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- More Flavor: Conference
- CAA Conference 2010
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- Christine Tarkowski
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- @ 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... View details »
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- Richard Rezac
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Maya Lin
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- The name Maya Lin goes hand in hand with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. Less well-known is Lin's long-running practice... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Brother/Sister Plays
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- A breakthrough theatrical event: three interconnected plays by a brilliant new American voice. Grand in scope, yet intimate and heartfelt, Tarell... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- American Buffalo
- @ 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... View details »
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- Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
- @ 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,... View details »
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- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Studs Terkel's Not Working
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Actions: What You Can Do With the City
- @ Graham Foundation
- We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 11:11
- @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
- A group of college-aged counselors at a Christian summer camp accidentally take ecstacy, resulting in a night of romance, hilarity, and... View details »
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- I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
- @ Rotofugi
- Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
- @ Chicago History Museum
- As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Cocktail Hour
- @ The ComedySportz Theatre
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ComedySportz
- @ The ComedySportz Theatre
- Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Abraham Lincoln Transformed
- @ Chicago History Museum
- He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... View details »
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- Armita Raafat
- @ threewalls
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January 15 – February 13, 2010
Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 15, 6:00-9:00 PM
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- The Darker Side of Light
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Don Jamieson
- @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
- Co-Host of VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show"! View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Distracted
- @ American Theater Company
- Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Valentines Weekend at The ComedySportz Theatre!
- @ The ComedySportz Theatre
- First date? Long time lovers? No matter what age you are, you'll laugh and enjoy our main stage show... View details »
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